How Swarza compares with other hosts.
What the cheapest plan costs, what ten apps cost after the first term, what happens past the limit, what one plan includes, and what an app costs while nobody uses it.
€5a month for 10 apps, or 100, on Starter, every month. Hostinger’s 10-app plan renews at €23.99 and SiteGround’s at €39.99.
0 MBheld by an idle app, and it isn’t billed. Render, Railway, Fly.io and Heroku bill a running app’s memory or instance.
1 pricefor compute, a database, S3-compatible storage and scheduled jobs. Cloudflare and Railway have all four too, billed by usage.
Side by side.
Cloudflare, Vercel, Railway and Hostinger to start with. Add the others you’re weighing, or remove any you aren’t.
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| Swarza | CloudflareWorkers | Vercel | Railway | Hostinger | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | |||||
| Cheapest plan for a server app | €5 / month (Starter) | $5 / month minimum (Workers Paid) | $20 / month per developer seat (Pro) | $5 / month with $5 of usage (Hobby) | €3.99 / month for 5 apps, 48 months prepaid |
| 10 small apps, a month | €5 on Starter, every month | $5, plus usage | $20 a seat, plus usage | $5, plus memory at $10 per GB a month | €7.99 on Cloud Startup, 48 months prepaid |
| Apps on the cheapest plan | Unlimited on every plan (fair use: 1,000) | 500 Workers per account | Unlimited projects on Pro | 50 projects, 50 services each | 5 Node.js apps, 10 on Cloud plans |
| After the first term | The same. A plan’s price never goes up | The same, monthly | The same, monthly | The same, monthly | €16.99, or €23.99 for 10 apps |
| Past the included usage | Throttled, never billed extra | Billed. Budget alerts don’t pause or cap usage | Billed, uncapped. Pausing at a budget is opt-in | Billed. A hard limit is optional | Requests queue, then 503 errors. Upgrade the plan |
| In the plan | |||||
| Node.js server apps | Node.js 26 or Bun, and Next.js | Isolates with Node.js APIs. Full Node.js in Containers | Functions on Node.js | Any container | Node.js web apps |
| Database | Turso (SQLite), up to 10 GB, included | D1 (SQLite), billed by usage | Partners (Neon, Supabase), billed separately | Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, billed by usage | MySQL, included |
| S3-compatible storage | Buckets, included | R2, billed by usage | Vercel Blob, its own SDK | Buckets at $0.015 / GB | Not offered |
| Scheduled jobs | Every minute, included | Every minute, 15 min a run | Every minute on Pro | At least 5 min apart | Cron, every minute |
| Idle apps | |||||
| An app with no traffic | Suspended after a minute. Holds no memory, isn’t billed | Not billed: CPU time only | Not billed between requests | Memory billed while it runs. Sleeping is opt-in | Part of the flat price |
| Region and trial | |||||
| EU region | Frankfurt, always | Global, can’t be pinned. D1 data can stay in the EU | Frankfurt and others, if chosen. Default: Washington, D.C. | Amsterdam | France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands |
| Free plan or trial | 14-day trial, no card | Free: 100,000 requests a day | Hobby: free, non-commercial use only | $1 of usage a month. Trial: $5 for 30 days | Refund within 30 days |
Prices excluding tax, as each provider shows them: in euros for GoDaddy, Hostinger and SiteGround, in US dollars for the others.
Sources, checked on 9 October 2026
- Cloudflare: developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits, developers.cloudflare.com/billing/manage/budget-alerts, developers.cloudflare.com/workers/framework-guides/web-apps/nextjs, developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/api, developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/placement, developers.cloudflare.com/d1/configuration/data-location
- Vercel: vercel.com/pricing, vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby, vercel.com/docs/limits, vercel.com/docs/spend-management, vercel.com/docs/functions/limitations, vercel.com/docs/storage, vercel.com/docs/vercel-blob, vercel.com/docs/cron-jobs/usage-and-pricing, vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing, vercel.com/docs/regions
- Railway: railway.com/pricing, docs.railway.com/pricing/plans, docs.railway.com/pricing/cost-control, docs.railway.com/guides/nextjs, docs.railway.com/databases, docs.railway.com/storage-buckets, docs.railway.com/cron-jobs, docs.railway.com/pricing/understanding-your-bill, docs.railway.com/deployments/serverless, docs.railway.com/deployments/regions
- Hostinger: hostinger.com/de/webhosting, hostinger.com/support/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger, hostinger.com/de/cloud-hosting, hostinger.com/support/1583532-what-to-do-if-your-hosting-plan-limits-are-reached-in-hostinger, docs.hostinger.com/node.js/creating-an-app, hostinger.com/nodejs-hosting, docs.hostinger.com/websites/cron-jobs, hostinger.com/support/1583267-where-are-hostinger-servers-located, hostinger.com/legal/refund-policy
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