SaaS hosting cost calculator
Enter your traffic. See the monthly bill on Vercel Pro, Cloudflare Workers, Railway, and a DigitalOcean Droplet, with or without Postgres. Every price comes from the provider's own pricing page, checked 2026-10-13.
| Host and plan | Hosting | With database | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare WorkersWorkers Paid | $5.00 | $5.00 | |
| RailwayHobby | $6.02 | $6.02 | |
| A VPS (DigitalOcean)Basic Droplet | $7.20 | $7.20 | |
| VercelPro | $20.00 | $20.00 |
US prices before tax, from each provider's official pricing page, checked 2026-10-13. Vercel uses the iad1 region and its default 2 GB function size. It runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
How each host bills
- Vercel Pro charges $20 a month per deploying seat, with $20 of usage credit. CDN traffic is billed in flat tiers. Functions are billed per invocation, per hour of Active CPU, and per GB-hour of memory (Vercel, checked 2026-10-13).
- Cloudflare Workers charges $5 a month for 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds. Static files and bandwidth are free (Cloudflare, checked 2026-10-13).
- Railway charges for memory, CPU, and egress by the minute, after the usage that comes with the plan (Railway, checked 2026-10-13).
- A DigitalOcean Droplet is a fixed monthly price with a transfer allowance. You run the server (DigitalOcean, checked 2026-10-13).
What the calculator assumes
- Vercel functions run in iad1 at the default 2 GB size, one request per instance at a time. That is the most memory Vercel can bill.
- Requests that run server code send the same share of your bandwidth, which Vercel bills as Fast Origin Transfer.
- We pick the smallest Droplet with enough memory and under 50% average CPU, and add weekly backups.
- Railway memory is counted as used all month. Your real bill may be lower.
- Build minutes, logs, image optimization, and support plans are left out.
Three traffic levels, checked 2026-10-13
| Host | Launch 500,000 requests and 20 GB a month | Growing 5 million requests and 200 GB a month | Busy 50 million requests and 2 TB a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel Pro | $20.00 | $40.00 | $169 |
| Cloudflare Workers Workers Paid | $5.00 | $5.00 | $11.90 |
| Railway Hobby | $6.02 | $20.23 | $122 |
| A VPS (DigitalOcean) Basic Droplet | $7.20 | $14.40 | $28.80 |
| Host and database | Launch | Growing | Busy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel + Neon | $39.78 | $60.83 | $252 |
| Cloudflare Workers + Neon | $24.78 | $25.83 | $95.22 |
| Railway + Neon | $25.80 | $41.06 | $206 |
| A VPS (DigitalOcean) + Neon | $26.98 | $35.23 | $112 |
| Railway, Postgres on the host | $16.32 | $30.98 | $165 |
| A VPS (DigitalOcean), Postgres on the host | $14.40 | $28.80 | $57.60 |
Every price the calculator uses
| Host | What | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel | Pro platform fee, includes 1 deploying seat and $20 usage credit | $20 a month |
| Vercel | Each extra deploying seat | $20 a month |
| Vercel | Flat Rate CDN, included with Pro | 1M requests and 1 TB a month |
| Vercel | Flat Rate CDN tier, 10M requests and 50 TB | $20 a month |
| Vercel | Flat Rate CDN tier, 50M requests and 50 TB | $100 a month |
| Vercel | Flat Rate CDN tier, 150M requests and 50 TB | $300 a month |
| Vercel | Function invocations (iad1) | $0.6 per 1M |
| Vercel | Fluid Active CPU (iad1) | $0.128 per hour |
| Vercel | Fluid provisioned memory (iad1) | $0.0106 per GB-hour |
| Vercel | Fast Origin Transfer (iad1) | $0.06 per GB |
| Vercel | CDN requests and Fast Data Transfer on demand (iad1) | $2 per 1M, $0.15 per GB |
| Cloudflare | Workers Paid, includes 10M requests and 30M CPU ms | $5 a month |
| Cloudflare | Requests over 10M | $0.3 per 1M |
| Cloudflare | CPU time over 30M ms | $0.02 per 1M ms |
| Cloudflare | Static asset requests, egress, bandwidth | Free |
| Railway | Hobby plan, includes $5 of usage | $5 a month |
| Railway | Pro plan, includes $20 of usage | $20 a month |
| Railway | Memory | $10 per GB-month |
| Railway | CPU | $20 per vCPU-month |
| Railway | Egress | $0.05 per GB |
| Railway | Volume storage | $0.15 per GB-month |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 512 MiB, 1 vCPU, 500 GiB transfer | $4 a month |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 1 GiB, 1 vCPU, 1,000 GiB transfer | $6 a month |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 2 GiB, 1 vCPU, 2,000 GiB transfer | $12 a month |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 2 GiB, 2 vCPU, 3,000 GiB transfer | $18 a month |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 4 GiB, 2 vCPU, 4,000 GiB transfer | $24 a month |
| DigitalOcean | Transfer over the allowance | $0.01 per GiB |
| DigitalOcean | Weekly Droplet backups | 20% of the Droplet price |
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Questions clients ask
Short answers, no sales language. If yours isn't here, ask an engineer directly.
Ask us anythingHow much does Vercel cost for a small SaaS?
Usually $20 a month per deploying seat. Vercel's Hobby plan is free but is for personal, non-commercial use. Pro is $20 a month with one seat and $20 of usage credit, and it now includes a Flat Rate CDN tier of 1 million requests and 1 TB a month. At 5 million requests you move to the $20 tier, so the bill is about $40. Checked 2026-10-13.
What is the cheapest way to host a SaaS?
By the invoice, Cloudflare Workers at $5 a month or a $6 to $24 DigitalOcean Droplet. Workers charge nothing for bandwidth or static files. A Droplet has a fixed price but you run the server yourself. Add the database: Workers and Vercel need a managed one.
Is Railway cheaper than Vercel?
At low traffic, yes. Railway Hobby is $5 a month with $5 of usage included, against Vercel Pro's $20. Railway charges $0.05 per GB of egress, so at 2 TB a month the bandwidth alone is $100 and Railway costs more than Vercel's flat CDN tier.
Does the calculator include the database?
Only if you pick one. You can add Supabase Pro, Neon Launch, DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, or Postgres on the same Railway service or Droplet. Vercel and Cloudflare do not run Postgres, so they need a managed one.
Does the calculator store what I type?
No. It runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
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