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Pick your startup type. See what a real production workload actually costs across Vercel, Railway, Render, Fly.io, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and Lizard — same resources, real published rates.
~5,000 active seats · assumed workload: 8 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 2 TB bandwidth
DigitalOcean horizontally scaled — multiple 2 vCPU/4 GB App Platform instances, not one large container
$220/mo
LizardThis is us billed on actual measured usage, not allocated capacity — assumes a realistic 25% average CPU / 50% average memory utilization, not pegged at 100% around the clock
$220/mo
Railway billed on actual measured usage, not allocated capacity — assumes a realistic 25% average CPU / 50% average memory utilization, not pegged at 100% around the clock
$220/mo
+31%$288/mo
Vercel serverless — estimated at a realistic 25% CPU / 50% memory utilization, not an always-on allocation
+81%$399/mo
Render bandwidth overage approximated at $0.15/GB; tops out at Pro Ultra (8 vCPU/32 GB) — above that, Render is custom pricing
+241%$750/mo
Heroku matched by RAM — Heroku doesn't sell raw vCPU, dynos are compute-unit based
+241%$750/mo
Estimates for a real production workload at the assumed scale, from published vendor pricing. Last verified: August 2026. See each vendor's page for full methodology notes.
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