{
 "sym": "Dp",
 "updated": "2026-08-06",
 "verdict": "Vercel, if your product has a face \u2014 it is where the agents already deploy: 30%+ of its weekly deployments are now initiated by coding agents (up 1,000% in six months), on a $340M-ARR, $9.3B platform whose AI Gateway, Sandbox, and Queues turned a frontend host into an AI cloud. Supabase is the co-pick, not the runner-up: almost every AI-built app needs its Postgres-plus-auth backend, and 60% of its new databases are now launched by AI tools. Railway wins when you want Docker-anything and one usage-based bill; Cloudflare Workers when you need planet-scale APIs and agent sandboxes for $5; Render when you want the boring, compliant Heroku successor. The old default itself \u2014 Heroku \u2014 went into 'sustaining engineering' in February 2026. Deploy is no longer a human ritual: pick the platform your coding agent can drive end-to-end over MCP.",
 "top5": [
  {
   "rank": 1,
   "name": "Vercel",
   "maker": "Vercel Inc.",
   "url": "https://vercel.com",
   "docs": "https://vercel.com/docs",
   "pricing": "Hobby free \u00b7 Pro $20/user/mo + usage ($20 credit incl.) \u00b7 Enterprise custom \u00b7 Vercel Agent $0.30/action + tokens",
   "best_for": "Anything with a frontend \u2014 Next.js and beyond \u2014 plus the AI-app layer: gateway, sandboxes, queues, and agent-driven deploys on one platform.",
   "why": "The deploy target agents choose on their own: 30%+ of weekly deployments are initiated by coding agents, up more than 1,000% in six months (Feb 2026). $340M ARR by Feb 2026 (from $100M start of 2024), $9.3B Series F valuation, and a deliberate pivot from frontend host to 'AI Cloud' \u2014 AI Gateway, Sandbox, Queues, and the Vercel Agent shipped across 2025\u201326. Its v0 generator (4M+ users) feeds the funnel but belongs to element Vb.",
   "watch": "Usage-based billing is genuinely hard to predict \u2014 the $20 credit evaporates fast under real traffic, and egress/function overages are the classic bill-shock story. Compute is still function-shaped; long-running backends, heavy Docker workloads, and big Postgres belong elsewhere. CEO signaled IPO readiness (Mar 2026), which historically precedes pricing 'rationalization'.",
   "evidence": [
    {
     "stat": "30%+ of weekly Vercel deployments initiated by coding agents, +1,000% in 6 months (Feb 2026); CEO: 'agents are very prolific at deploying'",
     "src": "https://www.vktr.com/ai-news/vercel-ceo-signals-ipo/"
    },
    {
     "stat": "$340M ARR (Feb 2026), 80% YoY growth in 2025; $9.3B Series F (Sep 2025, $300M, Accel + GIC)",
     "src": "https://sacra.com/c/vercel/"
    },
    {
     "stat": "Pro $20/user/mo + metered usage; Vercel Agent $0.30/action (verified Aug 2026)",
     "src": "https://vercel.com/pricing"
    }
   ],
   "tile_note": "where agents deploy"
  },
  {
   "rank": 2,
   "name": "Supabase",
   "maker": "Supabase Inc.",
   "url": "https://supabase.com",
   "docs": "https://supabase.com/docs",
   "pricing": "Free (2 projects, pause after 1wk idle) \u00b7 Pro from $25/mo \u00b7 Team from $599/mo \u00b7 Enterprise custom",
   "best_for": "The instant backend \u2014 Postgres, auth, storage, realtime, edge functions, and vectors in one project your agent can provision in seconds.",
   "why": "The default backend of the AI-built-app era: 60% of its new databases are launched by AI tools (Bolt, Lovable, Cursor auto-provision it), 2,500 new databases a day, 1M+ under management. $170M ARR by May 2026 (from ~$101M end-2025) and a $500M Series F at $10.5B (Jun 2026, led by GIC, with Stripe and Salesforce Ventures) \u2014 a 5x valuation jump in fifteen months. Official remote MCP server makes the whole backend agent-drivable.",
   "watch": "Single-region Postgres at heart \u2014 serious scale means read replicas and careful ops, and big customers still graduate to RDS/Aurora. Free-tier project pausing bites hobby apps. A meaningful slice of growth rides the vibe-builder cohort, whose retention is unproven; valuation prices in flawless execution.",
   "evidence": [
    {
     "stat": "$500M Series F at $10.5B post (Jun 2026, GIC-led); $170M ARR May 2026",
     "src": "https://sacra.com/c/supabase/"
    },
    {
     "stat": "60% of new databases launched by AI tools; 2,500 new databases/day; 1M+ total (Jun 2026)",
     "src": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/database-startup-supabase-raises-500-million-10point5-billion-valuation.html"
    },
    {
     "stat": "Pro from $25/mo, Team $599/mo (verified Aug 2026)",
     "src": "https://supabase.com/pricing"
    }
   ],
   "tile_note": "the backend element"
  },
  {
   "rank": 3,
   "name": "Railway",
   "maker": "Railway Corp.",
   "url": "https://railway.com",
   "docs": "https://docs.railway.com",
   "pricing": "Free (1 vCPU/0.5GB after trial) \u00b7 Hobby $5/mo min \u00b7 Pro $20/mo min \u00b7 per-second usage; Enterprise custom",
   "best_for": "Full-stack simplicity \u2014 any Dockerfile, databases, cron, workers, and GPUs on one canvas with one usage-based bill.",
   "why": "The 'it just runs' middle of the market: 2M+ users growing ~200k developers a month, 31% of the Fortune 500 touching it, and a $100M Series B (Jan 2026, TQ Ventures) raised explicitly on the thesis that AI-speed development broke traditional cloud deployment. Owns its bare-metal data centers \u2014 which kept it up through the 2025 AWS/Azure outages and funds ~65% cost savings claims \u2014 and per-second pricing means idle side projects cost cents.",
   "watch": "Valuation undisclosed and ARR unpublished (the PR's '176x revenue growth' is from a tiny base \u2014 treat as marketing). No serverless edge tier; egress at $0.05/GB adds up; HIPAA/SSO gated to Enterprise. The 200k-devs/month cohort skews hobbyist.",
   "evidence": [
    {
     "stat": "$100M Series B, Jan 22 2026 (TQ Ventures, FPV, Redpoint, Unusual); 2M+ users, +~200k devs/month; 31% of Fortune 500",
     "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/22/intelligent-cloud-infrastructure-startup-railway-gets-100m-simplify-application-deployment/"
    },
    {
     "stat": "Hobby $5/mo, Pro $20/mo minimums with per-second usage metering (verified Aug 2026)",
     "src": "https://railway.com/pricing"
    }
   ],
   "tile_note": "simple full-stack"
  },
  {
   "rank": 4,
   "name": "Cloudflare Workers",
   "maker": "Cloudflare (NYSE: NET)",
   "url": "https://workers.cloudflare.com",
   "docs": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/",
   "pricing": "Free (100k req/day) \u00b7 Workers Paid $5/mo (10M req + 30M CPU-ms incl., then usage) \u00b7 Containers/Sandboxes usage-based",
   "best_for": "Planet-scale APIs, agent backends, and sandboxed AI-generated code at the lowest entry price in the category.",
   "why": "The infrastructure bet on agents writing the software: Containers and Sandboxes went GA April 13, 2026 alongside Dynamic Workers (isolate-speed execution of AI-generated code) and Artifacts (git-compatible storage for tens of millions of agent repos). Momentum is real \u2014 1M net-new developers joined Workers in Q1 2026 alone (vs 1.5M in all of 2025), Workers ARR grew 137% in 2025, and Prince reports 'hundreds of billions of agentic requests per month'.",
   "watch": "Not a general-purpose host: the isolate model, D1/Durable Objects primitives, and CPU-time billing are their own paradigm \u2014 powerful, but porting away is work (the lock-in is architectural, not contractual). Full-fat Postgres and long-lived containers are young next to Railway/Render. 20% workforce cut announced for Q2 2026 amid margin pressure.",
   "evidence": [
    {
     "stat": "1M net-new Workers developers in Q1 2026; Workers ARR +137% in 2025; 'hundreds of billions of agentic requests/month'",
     "src": "https://www.tikr.com/blog/why-cloudflare-stock-looks-undervalued-after-its-q1-2026-developer-platform-results"
    },
    {
     "stat": "Containers and Sandboxes GA Apr 13, 2026; Dynamic Workers + Artifacts launched Agents Week 2026",
     "src": "https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudflare-expands-its-agent-cloud-to-power-the-next-generation-of-agents/"
    },
    {
     "stat": "Workers Paid $5/mo: 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms included (verified Aug 2026)",
     "src": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/"
    }
   ],
   "tile_note": "the agentic edge"
  },
  {
   "rank": 5,
   "name": "Render",
   "maker": "Render Services Inc.",
   "url": "https://render.com",
   "docs": "https://render.com/docs",
   "pricing": "Hobby free (25 services) \u00b7 Pro $25/mo \u00b7 Scale $499/mo (HIPAA, SAML) \u00b7 Enterprise custom \u00b7 compute billed per-second on top",
   "best_for": "Boring, compliant production hosting \u2014 the Heroku successor for teams that want git-push deploys, managed Postgres, and SOC 2/HIPAA without a DevOps hire.",
   "why": "The steady professional choice, now riding the AI-built-app boom: $100M Series C extension at a $1.5B valuation (Feb 17, 2026) raised specifically to be 'the cloud for AI-native software'. Predictable instance pricing (free through Pro Ultra $450/mo), managed Postgres to 512GB instances, previews, autoscaling, and an official MCP server \u2014 without asking you to learn a new compute paradigm.",
   "watch": "No scale-to-zero serverless \u2014 you pay for instances whether traffic comes or not, and the free web-service tier spins down. Less agent-native than the four above; growth narrative leans on Heroku refugees and could be squeezed from both sides by Railway (price) and Vercel/Cloudflare (platform).",
   "evidence": [
    {
     "stat": "$100M Series C extension at $1.5B valuation (Feb 17, 2026) 'to build the cloud for AI-native software'",
     "src": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260217996046/en/Render-Raises-$100-Million-Series-C-Extension-at-$1.5-Billion-Valuation-to-Build-the-Cloud-for-AI-Native-Software"
    },
    {
     "stat": "Hobby free / Pro $25/mo / Scale $499/mo with per-second compute billing (verified Aug 2026)",
     "src": "https://render.com/pricing"
    }
   ],
   "tile_note": "the heroku successor"
  }
 ],
 "matrix": {
  "cols": [
   "Paid entry",
   "Free tier",
   "Compute model",
   "Managed database",
   "Agent readiness",
   "Scale to zero",
   "Compliance"
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "Vercel",
    "$20/user/mo + usage",
    "Yes (solid)",
    "Functions + Sandbox + Queues",
    "Marketplace (Neon, Supabase\u2026)",
    "MCP \u00b7 AI Gateway \u00b7 Agent \u00b7 30% deploys by agents",
    "Yes",
    "SOC 2 \u00b7 ISO \u00b7 TISAX; HIPAA ent."
   ],
   [
    "Supabase",
    "$25/mo",
    "Yes (2 projects, pauses)",
    "Edge functions (Deno)",
    "Postgres core + vectors",
    "Official remote MCP; 60% of new DBs by AI tools",
    "Free tier only",
    "SOC 2 \u00b7 HIPAA from Team $599"
   ],
   [
    "Railway",
    "$5/mo min",
    "Yes (0.5GB cap)",
    "Any Docker, per-second billing",
    "Postgres \u00b7 MySQL \u00b7 Redis \u00b7 Mongo",
    "MCP server + API; agent-friendly usage model",
    "Yes (serverless-ish sleep)",
    "HIPAA/SSO on Enterprise"
   ],
   [
    "Cloudflare Workers",
    "$5/mo",
    "Yes (100k req/day)",
    "Isolates + Containers + Sandboxes",
    "D1 (SQLite) \u00b7 Hyperdrive \u00b7 KV \u00b7 DO",
    "Agents SDK \u00b7 Dynamic Workers \u00b7 Artifacts \u00b7 MCP",
    "Yes (native)",
    "SOC 2 \u00b7 ISO \u00b7 FedRAMP"
   ],
   [
    "Render",
    "$25/mo + compute",
    "Yes (spins down)",
    "Instances + autoscaling",
    "Postgres to 512GB \u00b7 Key Value",
    "Official MCP server",
    "No (paid instances always on)",
    "SOC 2; HIPAA/SAML at $499 Scale"
   ],
   [
    "Fly.io",
    "usage only (~$2/machine)",
    "No (removed 2024)",
    "Firecracker microVMs, ms boot",
    "Managed Postgres \u00b7 volumes",
    "'Computers for agents'; 2/3 of top revenue agent-native",
    "Yes (stopped machines)",
    "SOC 2; HIPAA BAA available"
   ],
   [
    "Netlify",
    "$9/mo (credits)",
    "Yes (300 credits/mo)",
    "Functions + edge (credit-metered)",
    "Netlify DB (Neon-backed)",
    "Agent Runners (Claude/Codex/Gemini in dashboard)",
    "Yes",
    "SOC 2; ent. SSO/SCIM"
   ],
   [
    "Neon (Databricks)",
    "$19/mo",
    "Yes (generous)",
    "n/a (database only)",
    "Serverless Postgres, branching",
    "Branch-per-agent workflow; MCP; API-first",
    "Yes (DB scales to zero)",
    "SOC 2 \u00b7 HIPAA on Scale"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "rules": [
  {
   "if": "Your product is a web app and your coding agent ships the UI (Next.js, v0, Claude Code)",
   "then": "Vercel \u2014 it's the deploy target agents already default to (30%+ of its deploys are agent-initiated), and the AI Gateway/Sandbox/Queues cover the AI layer too. Set a spend cap on day one."
  },
  {
   "if": "You need auth, Postgres, storage, and realtime yesterday \u2014 or your vibe builder already provisioned it",
   "then": "Supabase Pro at $25/mo. Keep it even as you grow; graduate individual workloads, not the platform."
  },
  {
   "if": "You have a Dockerfile, background workers, cron, or anything that isn't function-shaped",
   "then": "Railway \u2014 one canvas, one per-second bill, databases included. Render instead if you need HIPAA/SAML checkboxes and predictable instance pricing."
  },
  {
   "if": "You're building APIs or agent infrastructure that must be fast everywhere and cheap at scale",
   "then": "Cloudflare Workers at $5/mo \u2014 accepting that its primitives (isolates, D1, Durable Objects) are an architecture you're marrying, not renting."
  },
  {
   "if": "You're cost-obsessed, privacy-bound, or allergic to usage bills",
   "then": "Self-host with Coolify (56k stars, Apache-2.0) on a $10 VPS \u2014 the anti-PaaS that got good; you own the pager."
  }
 ],
 "field": [
  {
   "name": "Fly.io",
   "maker": "Fly.io Inc.",
   "note": "Firecracker microVMs pivoted to 'computers for agents' \u2014 8,000+ agent-native customers, ~2/3 of top-customer revenue, 12x YoY; $25M Series D (Jul 2026, Dell/Intel Capital) with new CEO Scott Johnston \u2014 the near-miss for the top 5",
   "url": "https://fly.io",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "usage, ~$2/mo/machine",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Netlify",
   "maker": "Netlify Inc.",
   "note": "Jamstack pioneer reinvented on a credit-based model with Agent Runners (Claude Code/Codex/Gemini from the dashboard, Oct 2025); claims 8.5M developers",
   "url": "https://www.netlify.com",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 $9/mo",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Neon",
   "maker": "Databricks",
   "note": "Serverless Postgres with branching (a natural fit for branch-per-agent workflows); acquired ~$1B May 2025, still sold standalone as the developer face of Databricks Lakebase",
   "url": "https://neon.com",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 $19/mo",
   "status": "acquired"
  },
  {
   "name": "Convex",
   "maker": "Convex Inc.",
   "note": "Reactive TypeScript backend positioning as 'the backend for agent-written software'; $57M Series B led by Insight Partners (Aug 4, 2026); open-source core",
   "url": "https://www.convex.dev",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 usage",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Heroku",
   "maker": "Salesforce",
   "note": "The platform that invented git-push deploys entered 'sustaining engineering' Feb 9, 2026 \u2014 no new enterprise contracts, investment redirected to Salesforce AI; the category's cautionary tale",
   "url": "https://www.heroku.com",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "$5/mo dynos",
   "status": "fading"
  },
  {
   "name": "Coolify",
   "maker": "coollabs (Apache-2.0)",
   "note": "Self-hostable Heroku/Vercel/Netlify alternative \u2014 56k GitHub stars; deploy anything to your own VPS via SSH; managed Coolify Cloud from ~$5/mo",
   "url": "https://coolify.io",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "free (your server)",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Dokploy",
   "maker": "Dokploy (open source)",
   "note": "Docker-native self-hosted PaaS, the leaner Coolify rival in the 2026 self-host wave",
   "url": "https://dokploy.com",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "free (your server)",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Modal",
   "maker": "Modal Labs",
   "note": "Serverless Python/GPU compute for AI workloads; $355M Series C at $4.65B (May 2026) \u2014 inference/GPU jobs, not web hosting; straddles Dp and the model layer",
   "url": "https://modal.com",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "usage \u00b7 $30 free credit",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Deno Deploy",
   "maker": "Deno Land",
   "note": "TypeScript-native edge platform, rebuilt and GA'd 2025\u201326; free 1M req/mo, Pro $20/mo; niche next to Workers but beloved by Deno users",
   "url": "https://deno.com/deploy",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 $20/mo",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "PlanetScale",
   "maker": "PlanetScale Inc.",
   "note": "Vitess-scale MySQL added GA Postgres (2025\u201326) with Metal NVMe instances from $50/mo and Neki sharded-Postgres in development; the performance-obsessed database pick",
   "url": "https://planetscale.com",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "from ~$39/mo",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Firebase",
   "maker": "Google",
   "note": "The mobile-era BaaS incumbent, now bundled with Firebase Studio and App Hosting; enormous installed base, but new AI-era startups increasingly default to Supabase's Postgres over Firestore",
   "url": "https://firebase.google.com",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 usage",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "AWS Amplify Hosting",
   "maker": "AWS",
   "note": "Git-push hosting for the AWS-committed; fine, rarely loved \u2014 most AI-era startups meet AWS later, via Bedrock or graduation, not day one",
   "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "usage",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "DigitalOcean App Platform",
   "maker": "DigitalOcean",
   "note": "Simple PaaS atop the classic droplet cloud, plus Gradient AI GPU offering; solid mid-market choice, little agent-native story",
   "url": "https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "free static \u00b7 $5/mo",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Northflank",
   "maker": "Northflank Ltd.",
   "note": "Container platform (BYOC into your own AWS/GCP) courting AI workloads and secure sandboxes; loudest challenger content-marketing the category",
   "url": "https://northflank.com",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 usage",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Turso",
   "maker": "Turso Inc.",
   "note": "SQLite-at-the-edge rebuilt in Rust; a database-per-tenant (and database-per-agent) pattern play",
   "url": "https://turso.tech",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 $5/mo",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Appwrite",
   "maker": "Appwrite (open source)",
   "note": "Open-source Firebase alternative (auth, DB, storage, functions, sites); the self-hostable BaaS counterpart to Coolify's PaaS",
   "url": "https://appwrite.io",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "free \u00b7 $15/mo",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "E2B",
   "maker": "E2B Inc.",
   "note": "Open-source cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code \u2014 deploy infra for agents rather than apps; competes with Fly Machines and Cloudflare Sandboxes",
   "url": "https://e2b.dev",
   "oss": true,
   "entry": "usage \u00b7 free tier",
   "status": "active"
  },
  {
   "name": "Deno Subhosting / Platforms plays",
   "maker": "various",
   "note": "A 2026 pattern, not one product: Workers for Platforms, Vercel's platforms offering, Deno Subhosting \u2014 infra for products that let *their* users (or agents) deploy code",
   "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-for-platforms/",
   "oss": false,
   "entry": "usage",
   "status": "active"
  }
 ],
 "signals": [
  {
   "fact": "Agents became the deployer: 30%+ of Vercel's weekly deployments are agent-initiated (+1,000% in six months, Feb 2026); 60% of new Supabase databases are launched by AI tools (Jun 2026)",
   "src": "https://sacra.com/c/vercel/"
  },
  {
   "fact": "Supabase: $500M Series F at $10.5B (Jun 2026) \u2014 5x its Mar 2025 valuation; $170M ARR (May 2026), with Stripe and Salesforce Ventures joining",
   "src": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/database-startup-supabase-raises-500-million-10point5-billion-valuation.html"
  },
  {
   "fact": "A funding wave hit the category in 2026: Railway $100M (Jan), Render $100M at $1.5B (Feb), Modal $355M at $4.65B (May), Fly.io $25M (Jul), Convex $57M (Aug)",
   "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/22/intelligent-cloud-infrastructure-startup-railway-gets-100m-simplify-application-deployment/"
  },
  {
   "fact": "Cloudflare added 1M net-new Workers developers in Q1 2026 alone (vs 1.5M all of 2025); Workers ARR grew 137% in 2025; 'hundreds of billions of agentic requests per month'",
   "src": "https://www.tikr.com/blog/why-cloudflare-stock-looks-undervalued-after-its-q1-2026-developer-platform-results"
  },
  {
   "fact": "Heroku moved to a 'sustaining engineering model' Feb 9, 2026 \u2014 no new enterprise contracts as Salesforce redirects to AI; the git-push pioneer exits the field it created",
   "src": "https://www.devclass.com/development/2026/02/09/heroku-future-in-doubt-as-salesforce-freezes-features-to-focus-on-ai/4090238"
  },
  {
   "fact": "Fly.io reports agent-native companies are now ~two-thirds of revenue among its largest customers, growing ~12x YoY (Jul 2026) \u2014 'computers for agents' is a real segment, not a slogan",
   "src": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/fly-io-doubles-down-computers-150000803.html"
  }
 ],
 "notes": "Ranking charter: agent-readiness (can a coding agent provision, deploy, and operate it end-to-end), time-to-production for a small team, pricing honesty at startup scale, and platform durability (funding/ownership) \u2014 editorial, no affiliate consideration. Scope: app-builders that also host (Replit, Lovable Cloud, Bolt) belong to Vb \u2014 their hosting explosion is precisely why Supabase and Vercel grew, so they appear here only as demand drivers. Vector-specific databases \u2192 Vd; workflow runners \u2192 Wf; GPU inference clouds (Modal, Baseten, Together) are kept to one field entry since their job is model serving, not app deploy. There is no separate database element, so managed Postgres (Supabase, Neon, PlanetScale) lives here. Conflicts resolved: Sacra's Railway page still shows only $24M raised \u2014 superseded by the Jan 22, 2026 $100M Series B (PR Newswire/Axios); Railway's valuation is undisclosed and its '176x revenue growth' is base-effect marketing, so we cite users not ARR. Vercel's press-cited '240% revenue surge' is two-year cumulative (from $100M in early 2024), not YoY \u2014 we quote the $340M ARR figure instead. Netlify's 8.5M-developer count is vendor-claimed and uncorroborated. Render's Pro moved to $25/mo on a workspace model (verified on render.com Aug 2026); older posts citing $19/user are stale. Neon remains sold standalone post-Databricks (per Neon's own docs) \u2014 'acquired', not 'sunsetting'.",
 "sources": [
  "https://vercel.com/pricing",
  "https://supabase.com/pricing",
  "https://railway.com/pricing",
  "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/",
  "https://render.com/pricing",
  "https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/",
  "https://www.netlify.com/pricing/",
  "https://sacra.com/c/vercel/",
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