Hosting platform price hikes
10 price hikes we tracked on hosting platforms, newest first. Each one has its own page with before and after, sources, and what's cheaper now.
- Fly.io raised Machine prices 13% · Oct 1, 2026
Shared-CPU Machines got about 13% pricier and added RAM 20% pricier. - Hetzner raised prices again: +30% for new servers · Jun 15, 2026
A second 2026 rise for new orders and rescales; CPX and CCX lines more than doubled, and the cheapest CX and CAX plans now show as unavailable. - Render cut included bandwidth 20× · Apr 23, 2026
Render replaced per-member plans with flat workspace plans and cut included bandwidth twenty-fold, billing overage at $0.15 per GB. Every workspace moved over on August 1, 2026, with no way back. - Hetzner raised prices 30–37%, existing servers too · Apr 1, 2026
A portfolio-wide rise citing hardware and energy costs, applied to existing servers as well. - Netlify moved to credits and shrank its free plan · Sep 5, 2025
New accounts moved to credit-based plans: the free plan went from 100 GB of bandwidth to 300 credits (about 15 GB), and Pro's monthly credits were later cut from 5,000 to 3,000. - Hetzner cut US traffic from 20 TB to 1 TB · Dec 1, 2024
US servers lost most of their included traffic and rose 4–27.5%; existing US servers moved over on Feb 1, 2025. - Fly.io dropped free allowances for new accounts · Oct 2024
Hobby, Launch and Scale plans were discontinued for new organizations, which now get no free allowance, only a short trial. - Render cut its free tier · May 20, 2024
New free Postgres databases expire after 30 days instead of 90. - Railway ended its free plan · Aug 1, 2023
The free Starter plan became a one-time trial, a $5 Hobby plan arrived, and network egress started being billed. - Heroku killed its free tier · Nov 28, 2022
Free dynos, free Postgres and free Redis were removed; the cheapest option became Eco at $5 a month for a pool of sleeping dynos.