SelfHostCost

Automation cost benchmarks

Prices checked

Monthly list-price cost of every option at 1,000, 10,000, 50,000, 250,000 runs/month (5 steps/run, monthly billing), calculated from pricing.json with the same logic as the calculator. These are calculated prices, not measured performance benchmarks.

The CSV has one row per option and workload, with status, orderable and usage-based flags, check date and source. Make is a range (sources conflict); n8n Cloud above 50,000 executions is Enterprise/custom; Railway is usage-based. Download CSV

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10,000 runs / month

Option≈ USD/moUsageDataLink
Oracle Cloud Always Free Ampere A1$0.00often out of capacity 2 OCPU / 12 GB (Arm, flexible)*Price verified on official pageVisit
PikaPods n8n pod (min resources)$3.70Lowest verified price minimum resources (specs not shown on listing)*Price verified on official pageVisit
DigitalOcean Basic 1 GiB$6.001 vCPU / 1 GiB / 25 GiB*Price verified on official pageVisit
Hostinger VPS KVM 1$6.491 vCPU / 4 GB / 50 GB NVMe*Price verified on official pageVisit
InstaPods Build$7.002 vCPU / 2 GB / 25 GB*Price verified on official pageVisit
Render Web service Starter$7.000.5 CPU / 512 MB*Price verified on official pageVisit
Hetzner Cloud CX23$7.09not orderable 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 40 GB*Price verified on official pageVisit
Hostinger VPS KVM 2$8.992 vCPU / 8 GB / 100 GB NVMe*Price verified on official pageVisit
Elestio Managed n8n (from)$11.00unknown at entry tier*Price verified on official pageVisit
Hostinger VPS KVM 4$12.994 vCPU / 16 GB / 200 GB NVMe*Price verified on official pageVisit
DigitalOcean Basic 4 GiB$24.002 vCPU / 4 GiB / 80 GiB*Price verified on official pageVisit
Render Web service 2 GB$25.001 CPU / 2 GB*Price verified on official pageVisit
Hostinger VPS KVM 8$25.998 vCPU / 32 GB / 400 GB NVMe*Price verified on official pageVisit
n8n Cloud Pro$60.0010,000 executions · 10,000 executions tierPrice verified on official pageVisit
Make Core$64.71–$97.00sources conflict 60,000 credits · 80,000 credits tierconflicting srcVisit
Zapier Professional$433.5050,000 tasks · 50,000 tasks tierPrice verified on official pageVisit
Railway Hobby†Usage-based, not estimated from $5/mo minimumCPU/RAM, $5 incl.Price verified on official pageVisit

† Railway: New signups through this link get $20 in Railway credits.

Other workloads are in the CSV and in the homepage examples.

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