Solutions
Prepared: March 18, 2026
- Cloudflare Workers — Ease 7, Pricing 9, Security 9 — Total: 25
- Edge compute with stateless orchestration and Durable Objects for state
- Modal — Ease 7, Pricing 8, Security 8 — Total: 23
- Serverless AI compute — pay-per-use burst, Python-native
- Railway — Ease 9, Pricing 7, Security 7 — Total: 23
- Git push-to-deploy — lowest time to running container
- Fly.io — Ease 7, Pricing 8, Security 8 — Total: 23
- Persistent containers with private WireGuard networking
- Hetzner — Ease 5, Pricing 10, Security 6 — Total: 21
- Cheapest raw VPS/bare metal — full Linux ownership required
- DigitalOcean — Ease 7, Pricing 7, Security 7 — Total: 21
- Reliable mid-tier — Droplets or managed App Platform
- Render — Ease 8, Pricing 6, Security 7 — Total: 21
- Git-based deploys, simpler than Fly, no free persistent tier
- Local hardware (Mac Mini / Studio) — Ease 4, Pricing 7, Security 9 — Total: 20
- High upfront cost, ongoing maintenance, full hardware ownership
- RunPod — Ease 5, Pricing 7, Security 6 — Total: 18
- GPU-focused serverless — community cloud has shared-hardware risk
- AWS (EC2 / Lambda) — Ease 3, Pricing 5, Security 9 — Total: 17
- Enterprise-grade — high complexity, easy to overspend