Lizard, compared
Head-to-head comparisons against the 11 platforms people actually weigh us against. Every figure comes from the other platform’s own published pricing, every page says where they win, and every page is dated. Last verified: August 2026.
Lizard vs Vercel
Vercel runs containers but not processes. Lizard vs Vercel on limits, first-party Postgres and Redis, and $0.0278 against $0.128 per vCPU-hour.
Read the comparisonLizard vs Netlify
Netlify moved to credit-based pricing in April 2026 and still runs only frontends and functions. Lizard vs Netlify on backends, databases and cost.
Read the comparisonLizard vs Heroku
Heroku entered sustaining engineering in February 2026. Lizard vs Heroku on dyno sizes, add-ons, workers and price — a $59 app for about $19.
Read the comparisonLizard vs DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean makes you size the droplet or write the app spec. Lizard vs DigitalOcean App Platform on setup, databases, and per-second billing.
Read the comparisonLizard vs Firebase
Firestore bills per read and Firebase never gives you a server process. Lizard vs Firebase: Postgres, Redis, S3-compatible storage, one command.
Read the comparisonLizard vs Supabase
Supabase hosts the database; your app lives elsewhere. Lizard runs both in one project, with PostgreSQL 18 in under a second and no compute add-on.
Read the comparisonLizard vs Replit
Replit is a workspace first. Lizard vs Replit for production: a process that never sleeps, real workers, Postgres, and no effort-based billing.
Read the comparisonLizard vs AWS
A container on AWS needs ECS, a VPC, an ALB, IAM and a registry. Lizard vs AWS on setup, egress at $0.05 against $0.09, and what App Runner’s closure changed.
Read the comparisonLizard vs AWS Lambda
Lambda caps at 15 minutes, 10 GB and a cold start. Lizard vs AWS Lambda on long-running work, per-request billing and what an always-warm function costs.
Read the comparisonLizard vs Cloudflare Workers
Workers run V8 isolates, not Node — no native modules, no long-lived processes. Lizard vs Cloudflare Workers on runtime, CPU-time billing and egress.
Read the comparisonLizard vs self-hosted PaaS
Coolify and Dokploy give you a Heroku on your own VPS for the price of the server. What each one is, and the point where a managed platform costs less.
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