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| Provider | Type | Entry price | Free tier | 24/7 | Regions | Ease | Good for | Verified source |
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Verified on 2026-10-19 from the official pages linked in the last column. Ease is our editorial rating from 1 (you run the whole server) to 5 (connect a repository and deploy). Hetzner did not publish readable prices to our checker, so its price is shown as unverified: check the official page.
How to read this table
- Long polling and Discord gateway bots keep a connection open all the time. They need a process that never sleeps: a VPS, a paid PaaS service or a worker plan. Free web tiers that sleep when idle are not suitable.
- Webhook-only bots are woken by an HTTPS request, so serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers fit well and are often free at small scale.
- Usage-based platforms (Railway, Fly.io) bill RAM and CPU by the second. A small idle bot is cheap, but set a spending limit and watch the usage page.
Step by step: deploy a bot to Railway, run a bot on a Vultr VPS with systemd. Longer reading: best hosting for Telegram bots and best free hosting for Discord bots.