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HE Heroku Heroku made git-push deploys the standard. You pay per dyno and per add-on, on Heroku's infrastructure. RA Railway Railway has a great canvas and fast setup, with usage-based pricing on Railway's infrastructure. RE Render Render offers polished managed services and blueprints, billed per service on Render's infrastructure. FL Fly.io Fly runs your containers as Machines close to users, on Fly's own hardware, driven mostly from the CLI. C6 Cloud 66 Cloud 66 also deploys to servers you own, with a heavier, closed platform priced for larger teams. EL Elestio Elestio deploys open-source and custom apps to servers in your cloud account or theirs, billed per resource with a support subscription on top. VE Vercel Vercel is excellent for frontends and serverless functions, on Vercel's own infrastructure. A backend that needs to run continuously, like a worker, a bot or a long job, is not what it is built for. NE Netlify Netlify is built for static sites and JAMstack frontends with edge functions, on Netlify's own infrastructure. A long-running backend process isn't what it's for. SU Supabase Supabase bundles Postgres, auth, storage and edge functions as a backend-as-a-service, running on Supabase's own infrastructure, not yours. FI Firebase Firebase is Google's backend-as-a-service for mobile and web apps, running entirely on Google's infrastructure with usage-based pricing. CP Cloudflare Pages Cloudflare Pages deploys static sites and edge functions on Cloudflare's global network. A traditional server-based backend doesn't run there. DO Dokku Dokku is a free, open-source git-push PaaS you install yourself on one server, with none of the day-two tooling: no teams, no managed backups, no multi-server orchestration. KA Kamal Kamal is a free, open-source deploy tool from 37signals: you write the YAML and run the commands yourself, with no dashboard, no managed databases and no team access control. CA CapRover CapRover is a free, open-source PaaS you self-host on one server, with a one-click app marketplace but no managed backups or multi-server failover. LC Laravel Cloud Laravel Cloud is the Laravel team's fully managed platform on their own AWS infrastructure, billed by usage, not a server you own. LF Laravel Forge Laravel Forge manages servers you still pay a cloud provider for separately, with no managed add-ons, zero-downtime verify-then-swap releases, or team roles built in. PL Ploi Ploi is a lighter, cheaper take on Forge: a server panel for Laravel, still billed separately from the servers it manages. ZE Zeabur Zeabur deploys from a template marketplace with usage-based pricing on Zeabur's own cloud, or a self-hosted edition you run and maintain yourself. KO Koyeb Koyeb autoscales containers across its own global edge network, with no option to run on servers in your own cloud account. NO Northflank Northflank runs on Kubernetes in your own AWS, GCP or Azure account, priced per vCPU and GB-hour on top of the cloud bill you already pay. PO Porter Porter wraps your own AWS account in a managed Kubernetes cluster, which carries its own floor cost (commonly cited around $225 a month for the EKS cluster alone) before your app even runs. QO Qovery Qovery runs Kubernetes clusters in your own cloud account, priced per seat starting in the hundreds of dollars a month for a team plan. CC Clever Cloud Clever Cloud is a European PaaS that runs on its own infrastructure, priced by instance size and usage rather than a flat per-team fee. AP Aptible Aptible targets regulated teams needing HIPAA or SOC 2, on Aptible's managed infrastructure, with production plans commonly starting near $499 a month. SC Scaleway Scaleway's serverless containers run only on Scaleway's own cloud, with no option to deploy into a different provider's account. NE Neon Neon is a serverless Postgres database with branching and autoscaling, on Neon's own infrastructure. It's a database, not a place to run your app. FL Flightcontrol Flightcontrol deploys to your own AWS account over ECS only, with preview environments gated behind its $397-a-month Business plan. AP Appliku Appliku deploys Django apps to servers you own, priced per server from $10 a month, similar in spirit to Railyard but limited to Python/Django. LV Laravel Vapor Laravel Vapor deploys Laravel apps as serverless functions on your own AWS account, billed through Vapor on top of your AWS bill. HA Hatchbox Hatchbox manages Rails apps on servers you already own — DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, Vultr and other clouds, or your own Ubuntu box — for a flat $15 per server per month. DA DigitalOcean App Platform DigitalOcean App Platform is DigitalOcean's own managed PaaS layer, tied to a DigitalOcean account, priced per app instance plus managed database add-ons.
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