Landing Page — small scale stack.
For each requirement below, pick the option that fits your build — recommended first, then free and cheaper alternatives — or skip what your project doesn't need. Tap the info icon next to any requirement to see why it matters.
Hosting / Static Hosting
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel: Hobby Free $0 – 100GB bandwidth, 6k build mins, 1M Edge Function invocations, unlimited static sites | Pro $20/seat/mo incl. 1TB bw, $40/100GB overage, $0.18/GB-hr Fast Data Transfer | Enterprise Custom ~$2000+/mo. Cloudflare Pages: Free $0 – unlimited bw/requests, 500 builds/mo, 100 custom domains | Pro $20/mo – 5k builds, $30/500 extra builds | Business $200/mo. Netlify: Starter Free $0 – 100GB bw, 300 build mins | Pro $19/seat/mo + $55/100GB bw over, $7/500 build mins | Enterprise $500+/mo. AWS Amplify: Free tier $0 – 5GB hosted, 100GB bw | Pay-as-you-go $0.15/GB served + $0.023/GB storage + build $0.01/min
DNS Management
Your human-readable address on the web plus the DNS records that point it at your servers. Skipping this is not an option — users need a domain to reach you.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare DNS: Free $0 – unlimited zones/queries, unmetered DDoS, 1-sec TTL | Pro $20/mo – WAF + image optimization | Business $200/mo – 100% uptime SLA, custom SSL | Enterprise Custom. AWS Route 53: $0.50/hosted zone/mo (first 25 $0.50) + $0.40/M queries standard, $0.60/M geo | Health checks $0.50/mo each. Namecheap Free with domain | DNSimple Personal $6/mo – 10 domains $0.60/domain over | NS1 Managed $100/mo + $0.50/M queries over 50M
CDN / Edge Network
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare CDN: Free $0 – unlimited bandwidth, global 310 PoPs | Pro $20/mo – WAF + 20 Page Rules, $5/10k extra optimized images | Business $200/mo – 100% SLA | Enterprise Custom. BunnyCDN: Volume from $1/mo – $0.01/GB NA/EU, $0.06/GB SA, $0.03/GB Asia | Overage same rate, no egress surprise. Fastly: Free trial 50GB | Developer $50/mo min – $0.12/GB NA/EU + $0.02/10k requests | Enterprise $500+ with VCL. AWS CloudFront: Free 1TB egress/yr | $0.085/GB first 10TB NA/EU + $0.0075/10k HTTPS reqs
SSL / TLS Certificate Management
Encrypts traffic between your users and your servers. Without it browsers flag your site as insecure and you lose trust and search ranking.Pricing & free-tier limitsLet's Encrypt: Free $0 – 90-day certs, unlimited domains, wildcard via DNS-01, auto-renew | Rate limit 50/week/domain. Cloudflare Universal SSL: Free $0 – auto issuance, 1-yr edge certs, auto renewal. AWS ACM: Free $0 for AWS resources (ALB/CloudFront) – private CA $400/mo per CA + $0.75/cert. ZeroSSL Free: 3 x 90-day free, then Premium $10/mo unlimited. DigiCert Basic: $218/yr DV single | OV $368/yr | EV $698/yr | Wildcard $688/yr | Multi-year discount -20%
Database (Serverless / Edge)
Persistent storage for your app’s data — users, products, orders. The single most important architectural decision for most projects.Pricing & free-tier limitsSupabase: Free $0 – 500MB DB, 1GB storage, 50k MAU, 500k Edge Func calls, 2M Realtime msgs | Pro $25/mo – 8GB DB incl, $0.125/GB over, $0.00325/MAU over, $2/M Edge Func over | Team $599/mo. Turso: Free 9GB total, 500 DBs, 500M rows read/mo | Scaler $29/mo – 24GB, $0.50/GB storage over, $0.15/M rows read over. Neon: Free 0.5GB storage, 10 branches, 100hrs compute | Launch $19/mo – 10GB incl $0.35/GB over, 300hrs compute $0.16/compute-hr over | Scale $69/mo. PlanetScale: Free 5GB, 1k conn/day | Scaler $29/mo – 10GB + 100M reads, $1.50/GB storage over, $1.50/M reads over | Enterprise Custom. AWS RDS db.t3.micro ~$12.5/mo + storage $0.115/GB-mo + I/O | Aurora Serverless v2 $0.12/Aurora Capacity Unit-hr
Object Storage (Assets & Media)
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare R2: Free $0 – 10GB storage, 10M Class A ops/mo, 10M Class B | Standard $0.015/GB-mo after, Class A $4.50/M, Class B $0.36/M, ZERO egress fee. AWS S3 Standard: Free 5GB 12mo | $0.023/GB-mo first 50TB + $0.09/GB egress to internet + $0.005/1k PUT $0.0004/1k GET | IA $0.0125/GB. Backblaze B2: Free 10GB + 1GB dl/day | $0.006/GB-mo storage + $0.01/GB download (free via Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance) + $0.005/1k TXs. Wasabi: No egress $6.99/TB/mo (1TB min) $0 overage $6.99/TB, 90-day min retention
Contact Form API
Interactive assessments, quizzes, or forms that capture structured input from users.Pricing & free-tier limitsFormsubmit.co: Free $0 – unlimited forms, unlimited submissions, spam filter, file upload, no API key needed. Formspree: Free 50 subs/mo – no file upload | Gold $20/mo – 1k subs $0.01/subs over + 10GB storage + Zapier | Platinum $40/mo 5k. Basin: Free 100 subs/mo | Starter $12/mo – 1k subs + webhooks + file upload | Pro $30/mo – 10k subs $1/1k over. Getform: Free 100/mo | Starter $12/mo 1k | Pro $29/mo 10k $3/1k over. Typeform: Basic Free 10 responses/mo | Basic $25/mo 100/mo | Plus $50/mo 1k, $0.10/resp over
Analytics API (PostHog Basic)
Understands your users and supports them. Drives product decisions and retention.Pricing & free-tier limitsPostHog Cloud: Free $0 – 1M events/mo, 5k session recordings, 1M feature flag requests | Hobby $20/mo – 100k events incl then $0.000248/event ($0.248/1k), recordings $0.005/rec, free up to 1M | Scale from $225/mo + volume. Plausible: Free trial 30d | Growth $9/mo – 10k pageviews, $0.90/10k over | Business $19/mo – 100k views | Enterprise $90/mo 1M. Umami Cloud: Free 100k events | Pro $20/mo – 250k events $5/100k over | Self-host free unlimited
Email Transactional API
Sending transactional email (receipts, resets, alerts) and sometimes marketing mail. Deliverability matters more than features here.Pricing & free-tier limitsResend: Free $0 – 3k emails/mo + 100/day limit | Pro $20/mo – 50k incl, $0.0004/email ($0.40/1k) over | Scale $95/mo 100k + $0.00038 over. Amazon SES: $0.10/1k emails + $0.12/GB attachments | Dedicated IP $24.95/IP/mo | Free 3k/mo if on EC2. Brevo (Sendinblue): Free 300 emails/day unlimited contacts | Starter $19/mo – 5k/mo $0.003/email over + no daily limit | Business $35/mo 20k + A/B. SendGrid: Free 100/day forever | Essentials $19.95/mo 50k, $0.00045/email over | Pro $89.95/mo 100k incl $0.0004 over
CI/CD Pipeline
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Actions: Free $0 – 2k mins/mo private (3000 Linux), 500MB storage | Team $4/seat/mo – 3k mins | Enterprise $21/seat/mo – 50k mins | Overage $0.008/min Linux, $0.016 Win, $0.08 MacOS. Vercel Build: Free 6k mins | Pro incl 24k team mins, $0.18/min over | Cloudflare Pages 500 builds free, 5k Pro. CircleCI: Free 6k build mins/mo + $0 overage pay-as-you-go $0.03/credit (~$0.01/min) | Pro $15/mo 2k credits + $0.00006/credit over
Repo Hosting / Version Control
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub: Free $0 – unlimited public/private repos, 3 collaborators unlimited, 2k Actions mins | Team $4/seat/mo – 3k Actions mins, protected branches, CODEOWNERS | Enterprise $21/seat/mo – 50k Actions, 50GB Packages, SAML/SCIM, 99.9% SLA. GitLab: Free 5GB storage, 400 CI mins | Premium $29/seat/mo – 10k CI + 50GB | Ultimate $99/seat. Bitbucket: Free 5 users + 50 build mins | Standard $3/seat/mo – 2500 mins, $0
Newsletter / Email List API
Sending transactional email (receipts, resets, alerts) and sometimes marketing mail. Deliverability matters more than features here.Pricing & free-tier limitsMailchimp: Free $0 – 500 contacts, 1k emails/mo (500/day), 1 audience | Essentials $20/mo – 1.5k contacts incl, $2.50/250 contacts over, $0.01/email over API limit | Standard $35/mo. Brevo: Free 300 emails/day unlimited contacts, drag editor | Starter $19/mo – 5k emails, $8/5k over, unlimited contacts | Business $35/mo – 20k emails + A/B + removal of logo. ConvertKit: Free 1k subs – landing pages | Creator $29/mo – 1k subs incl, $0.01/sub over | Creator Pro $59/mo automation scoring
A/B Testing API (GrowthBook)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsGrowthBook: Free $0 – 10k tracked events/mo self-host unlimited | Cloud Free 10k events, unlimited experiments/features | Pro Cloud $20/mo per seat – 100k events incl $10/50k over, SSO, premium SDK | Enterprise $500+/mo. PostHog Feature Flags + Experiments Free within 1M events | Same pricing as analytics. Statsig: Free 1M events | Pro $300/mo – 10M events $30/1M over
Maps API (Minimal)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsMapbox: Free $0 – 50k map loads/mo, 50k MAU GL JS, 50k Search requests | Pay-as-you-go $50/mo incl 100k loads, then Maps $0.50/1k loads over, Search $0.75/1k, Directions $0.50/1k, Geocoding Static Maps included. Google Maps Platform: $200 free credit ~28k loads | Dynamic Maps $7/1k loads after, Static $2/1k, Geocoding $5/1k, Places Autocomplete $2.83/1k, Routes $5/1k, Street View $7/1k. Leaflet + OpenStreetMap: Free unlimited OSM tiles – self-host | Stadia Maps Free 2.5k requests/day | Pro $50/mo 250k
Edge Caching / Cache Invalidation
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Cache Rules: Free up to 3 rules, purge by URL free unlimited | Pro $20/mo – 20 rules + Tiered Cache + 50 purge by prefix/day | Business $200/mo – 125 rules + custom cache keys | Enterprise custom purge by tag 200k ops/sec. Fastly Instant Purge: $0.12/GB + $0.0075/10k req + purge $0.01/1k purges after 1M | Surrogate Key free 10k keys. Varnish Cloud: $50/mo – 100GB bandwidth + $0.10/GB over
WAF / DDoS Protection
Controls and protects your APIs — quotas, abuse prevention, and firewalls. Important once you have real traffic or many clients.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare WAF: Free 5 custom rules, unmetered DDoS L3/4/7 | Pro $20/mo – 20 rules + OWASP managed ruleset $0 | Business $200/mo – 100 rules + custom managed rules + 100% uptime SLA | Enterprise custom + advanced DDoS mitigation unmetered. AWS WAF: $5/WebACL/mo + $1/rule/mo + $0.60/M requests + $0.20/WCU-hr | Shield Standard Free DDoS | Shield Advanced $3k/mo. Bunny WAF: $10/mo – 20 zones, $0.01/1k attacks mitigated, $0
Backups / Snapshots
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Backups: Not native – via Git + database PITR – Supabase PITR $100/mo 7-day, $200 14-day | Turso snapshots free daily 7d, PITR $10/mo. AWS S3 Backup: $0.023/GB-mo storage + early delete | RDS Snapshots $0.095/GB-mo + I/O free | R2 $0.015/GB-mo zero egress. Cloudflare R2 + D1 Time Travel: D1 Time Travel 30d included Pro+ $20/mo. Backblaze Computer Backup: $9/mo unlimited + $0.006/GB B2 over.
Monitoring & Log Management
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsDatadog: Free 1-day retention + 5 hosts infra | Pro $15/host/mo – 15mo logs $0.10/GB ingested $1.27/M custom metrics over | Log Rehydration $0.02/GB. Grafana Cloud: Free $0 – 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 10k metrics | Pro $29/mo – 100GB logs incl $0.50/GB over, 15k metrics $8/1k over. Logtail/BetterStack: Free 1GB/mo 3-day | Starter $24/mo 7GB 7-day $4/GB over | CloudWatch $0.50/GB ingested + $0.03/GB archived.
Staging / Preview Environments
An isolated place to test changes before real users see them. Catches bugs without embarrassing your production users.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Preview: Hobby $0 – unlimited previews, 100GB bw shared | Pro $20/seat/mo incl 1TB bw pooled over all envs, $40/100GB over | Netlify Deploy Previews: Free unlimited + 1 concurrent build | Pro $19/seat – 3 concurrent builds + $7/500 extra build mins. Cloudflare Preview: 500 builds free, 5k Pro $20/mo.
How this small scale landing page checklist works.
Each requirement below is something a small scale landing page build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.
Your picks are saved in this browser automatically, so you can come back anytime. Options are researched per build level and refreshed as vendors change their plans — always verify details on the provider's page before committing.