Hosting, backend, auth and payments tools from our directory. Community-verified tools come first, then tools we haven't reviewed yet. This order isn't a ranking from hands-on tests.
App hosting · Community-verified
Liked for simple full-stack deploys; HN users report slow Next.js builds and an SMTP change that broke a Hobby-plan workload.
Price: Free ($1/mo credit); Hobby $5/mo (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Sources: HN: Railway moved frontend off Next.js · HN: Railway production workload thread
Frontend hosting · Community-verified
HN builders cite much faster Next.js builds than on container hosts, and trust it to run production properly.
Price: Hobby free; Pro $20/mo (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Sources: HN: Railway moved frontend off Next.js · HN: Railway production workload thread
Postgres backend/auth · Community-verified
Indie devs run real production apps on it; critics warn against putting core logic in RLS and Edge Functions, and Pro often costs more than the $25 base.
Price: Free; Pro from $25/mo (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Sources: r/Supabase: a year in, what I'd tell my past self · r/startups: "No reason to use Supabase in 2026"
Auth and user management · Community-verified
Praised for fast, polished Next.js auth; complaints cover lock-in, roles tied to organizations, and outages.
Price: Free; Pro $25/mo ($20/mo billed annually) (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Sources: r/nextjs: Clerk vs Supabase migration · HN: "Using Clerk, quite unhappy with it"
Web hosting/deploys · Not yet reviewed
Price: Free; Personal $9/mo (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Payments · Not yet reviewed
Price: No monthly fee; 2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card transaction (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Email API for developers · Not yet reviewed
Price: Free (3,000 emails/mo, 100/day); Pro $20/mo for 50,000 (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Product analytics, session replay & feature flags · Not yet reviewed
Price: Free every month (1M analytics events, 5K recordings); then pay-as-you-go (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Payments as merchant of record (handles sales tax/VAT) · Not yet reviewed
Price: No monthly fee; 5% + 50¢ per transaction (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
Google's app backend: database, auth, hosting · Not yet reviewed
Price: Free Spark plan; Blaze pay-as-you-go (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)
React Native framework + build/submit services (EAS) · Not yet reviewed
Price: SDK free (MIT); EAS Free $0, Starter $19/mo (official pricing, checked 2026-10-19)