Platform as a Service providers under $5 a month

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8 providers are platform as a service and start at under $5 a month, listed alphabetically. They are Alibaba Cloud, DigitalOcean, Diploi, EvenNode, Fly.io, fortrabbit, Hostim and Northflank. That is 8 of the 48 that start at under $5 a month. Collaboration on 6 of them, against 10 of the 48.

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Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
One we like
Diploi
Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.

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EvenNode
Managed hosting platform that deploys Node.js and Python applications by git push or FTP.

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Fly.io
Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.
fortrabbit
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
One we like

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Hostim
Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.
One we like

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Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.

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Who is the best Platform as a Service provider under $5 a month?

We don't know. A static portfolio and a busy shop need different things from a host, and so do a freelancer and an agency with forty client sites. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical. The guide covers what to compare.