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Vercel
Pick this if Deploying a Next.js app with preview URLs
Push a frontend or Next.js app and get a URL.
Freemium
8.2
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Railway is an app platform for running services, databases, and workers from a repo. Use it when the thing you are shipping is a long-running server, not a pure frontend, and you want less ceremony than a hyperscaler. Pricing has changed more than once. Check site.
Railway scores 7.4 in Hosting and deploy (Where the app stays up). The 4 alternatives below are the other tools in that job, ordered by their StackPick score. How we score.
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Best for A long-running service without becoming a platform engineer
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Cloudflare Workers
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Run code on Cloudflare's edge, plus Pages for sites.
Freemium7.8
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Netlify
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Git-based hosting for web apps, with functions and forms.
Freemium7.2
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Render
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Web services, static sites, cron, and databases on one platform.
Freemium7.2
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