Dev / Staging environments

The cheapest thing that holds up.

For experiments, side projects and temporary staging. Prioritise price and flexibility over performance. ARM if your stack supports it = 30%+ savings.

RAM ≥ 1 GB

Recommended plans

Chosen for fitting the requirements and the price/performance for this workload.

Why: Best deal — ARM 4GB under €4

hetzner/cax11.json 3 regions · Hetzner

Hetzner CAX11

Cheapest ARM VPS. Ideal for light apps and dev.

$0.0054 /hr

~25 ms ★ Featured Best priceARM

4.9

vCPU

2 Ampere Altra

RAM

4 GB

NVME

40 GB

Bandwidth

20 TB

2 vCPU 4 GB RAM 40 GB NVME 20 TB

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Why: For serverless APIs

cloudflare/workers-free.json 1 region · Cloudflare

Cloudflare Workers Free

Free edge functions up to 100k req/day.

$0.00 /req

~30 ms ★ Featured Free tierEdge

4.8

Coverage

1 regions

Free tier

100k req

DDoS

Included

1 regions 100k req free 100k req/day free

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Why: If you need a LATAM/Asia region

digitalocean/basic-1gb.json 13 regions · DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 1 GB

Entry-level shared CPU. Perfect for staging and side projects.

$0.0089 /hr

~15 ms Entry

4.2

vCPU

1 Intel/AMD shared

RAM

1 GB

SSD

25 GB

Bandwidth

1 TB

1 vCPU 1 GB RAM 25 GB SSD 1 TB

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Operational tips

Hetzner asks for an initial verification, then it's plug-and-play
Free/cheap snapshots to save state
Shut down/delete when done (they bill hourly)