Category pricing · Developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
Developer platform pricing — Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, and every alternative
Per-seat base tier is small, but per-resource overages (bandwidth, build minutes, edge invocations) can 10x the bill on a viral month.
61 tools in this category. Every row in the table below links to the full per-tier pricing page for that vendor, with hidden fees, recommended tier by team size, and tier-jump pain spelled out.
About Developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
Developer platform pricing has become impossibly fragmented since the serverless and edge-compute pricing models replaced the simpler per-dyno / per-instance models. Vercel and Netlify both price on a base tier (Pro: 20 USD per seat per month) plus per-resource overages on bandwidth, build minutes, image optimizations, edge function invocations, and serverless function GB-hours. A small team's bill can swing 10x between a quiet month and a viral-launch month. The pages below show the base tier on each platform plus the overage rate on each resource, and the comparable cost on classical PaaS (Heroku, Render, Railway) for teams that prefer predictable per-month pricing over usage-based.
61 developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling compared
Entry-tier price below is the cheapest paid per-seat or per-month tier each vendor publishes. Custom-quote tiers and usage-based add-ons aren't included; click any tool to see the full per-tier breakdown.
Best for
- Engineering teams sizing Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages
- Backend teams choosing between Heroku, Render, Railway, and Fly.io
- Teams budgeting BaaS spend (Supabase, Firebase, Convex, Neon)
What to evaluate
- Base tier per-seat and what's included before overages start
- Overage rate per resource (bandwidth, build minutes, edge / function invocations)
- Burst-vs-commitment discount structure
- Egress fees on the database / storage line
Frequently asked questions
What does Vercel actually cost for a 5-person team?
Vercel Pro is 20 USD per seat per month on annual billing, so 5 seats is 100 USD per month base. Pro includes 1 TB of bandwidth, 6,000 build minutes, 1M edge function invocations, and 100 GB-hours of serverless function execution. A typical content-heavy SaaS marketing site at 500K page views per month runs about 200-400 USD per month including overages. A consumer-facing app spiking on a launch can easily land at 2,000-4,000 USD per month on the same Pro plan.
Is Netlify or Vercel cheaper for a static marketing site?
Netlify Pro is 19 USD per seat per month on annual billing with 1 TB included bandwidth and 25,000 build minutes. Vercel Pro is 20 USD per seat per month with 1 TB bandwidth and 6,000 build minutes. For pure static marketing sites with infrequent rebuilds, Netlify's build-minute pool is harder to exhaust; Vercel's edge / function execution allowances are higher. Either is fine for the static use case; the buying decision is usually framework alignment (Next.js teams default to Vercel; everyone else is more vendor-neutral).
What does Supabase cost at 100K monthly active users?
Supabase Pro is 25 USD per project per month base, including 8 GB database, 100 GB bandwidth, 50K MAU. Above 50K MAU, Supabase Auth bills 0.00325 USD per MAU. At 100K MAU that's 162.50 USD per month on auth alone. Add database row reads (1 USD per 5M reads above the included pool), realtime concurrent connections, and storage to land at typical 100K-MAU bill of 350-650 USD per month. Firebase Spark-to-Blaze with the same usage typically lands 30-50 percent higher because of the per-document read pricing.