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Static-site & JAMstack hosting

Static sites and JAMstack front-ends deploy straight from a repo and scale at the edge, with no server to manage. This shortlist ranks app-hosting platforms by price and startup fit, surfacing affordable ways to ship marketing sites, docs, and single-page apps. Weigh build and bandwidth allowances, preview deploys, edge-function support, and how cost grows once traffic picks up.

Aptible

www.aptible.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Aptible is a compliance-first platform-as-a-service that packages hosting with the security controls regulated startups need: encryption, audit logging, access management, and HIPAA business associate agreements out of the box.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree trial creditEstablished & proven

AWS App Runner

aws.amazon.com/apprunner

PaaS / App Hosting

AWS App Runner is a fully managed container platform that builds and runs web services directly from source code or a container image, handling load balancing, autoscaling, and TLS automatically.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Very low entry priceBudget tier

Azure App Service

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/app-service

PaaS / App Hosting

Azure App Service is Microsoft's managed platform for hosting web apps, APIs, and containers, positioned as the Azure peer of Google App Engine.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed July 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree tierEstablished & proven

Clever Cloud

www.clever-cloud.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Clever Cloud is a French platform-as-a-service from Nantes that deploys applications with git push across many runtimes (Node.js, PHP, Java, Python, Rust and more) plus managed databases.

$ Budgetfrom $5/mo · Last reviewed July 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceEasy to useStartup programFree trial credit

Cloudflare Pages

pages.cloudflare.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Cloudflare Pages is a Jamstack platform that builds and serves static sites and full-stack applications on Cloudflare's global edge network, with server-side logic running as Pages Functions on Workers.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed July 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree tierEasy to use

DigitalOcean App Platform

www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform

PaaS / App Hosting

DigitalOcean App Platform is a fully managed platform-as-a-service that builds, deploys, and scales apps from source code or container images without managing servers.

$ Budgetfrom $5/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree tierEasy to useStartup program

Fly.io

fly.io

PaaS / App Hosting

Fly.io is a platform for running applications and databases close to users by deploying containers across a global network of around 35 regions.

$ Budgetfrom $2/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceEasy to useFree trial creditLow vendor lock-in

Google App Engine

cloud.google.com/appengine

PaaS / App Hosting

Google App Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform-as-a-service within Google Cloud for building and deploying web apps and APIs without managing infrastructure.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree tierEasy to useStartup program

Heroku

www.heroku.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Heroku is a platform-as-a-service, owned by Salesforce, for deploying and running applications without managing infrastructure.

$ Budgetfrom $5/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceEasy to useEstablished & proven

Koyeb

www.koyeb.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform for deploying APIs, full applications, inference workloads, and databases globally with minimal configuration.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree tierEasy to useStartup program

Netlify

www.netlify.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Netlify is a platform for building and hosting web front-ends, with Git-based deploys, serverless functions, and edge delivery.

$$$ Premiumfrom $19/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Free tierEasy to useModerate entry priceEstablished & proven

Northflank

northflank.com

PaaS / App Hosting

Northflank is a self-service and enterprise platform-as-a-service for deploying applications, jobs, managed databases, and CI/CD pipelines, in Northflank's own cloud or in the customer's via Bring Your Own Cloud.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Very low entry priceFree tierEasy to useLow vendor lock-in

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