Netlify vs Sevalla

Netlify and Sevalla offer distinct paths for application hosting, with Netlify focusing on high-bandwidth edge delivery and Sevalla providing more traditional, vertical scaling for containerized workloads. Netlify’s pricing spectrum ranges from $0.00/mo to $99.00/mo, typically providing a static 1 GB of RAM. In contrast, Sevalla operates on a tiered model that scales from $5.00/mo up to $480.00/mo, offering granular memory allocations between 0.3 GB and 32 GB. While Netlify excels in high-volume egress environments, Sevalla’s hardware allocation feels closer to standard VPS providers like Linode, allowing for more predictable performance on long-running backend processes.

• Netlify charges $0.55/GB for egress overages, which is significantly higher than Sevalla’s $0.10/GB rate.
• Storage overages are cheaper on Netlify at $0.05/GB, while Sevalla imposes a $0.30/GB penalty for exceeding disk limits.
• Sevalla limits users to a single application instance per container, whereas Netlify supports unlimited instances, making the latter more suitable for large-scale JAMstack deployments.
• Memory density on Sevalla reaches up to 32 GB, providing a much higher ceiling for RAM-heavy applications compared to the fixed 1 GB limit found on Netlify.

Netlify is cheaper for the default baseline workload at $0.00/mo compared to the $7.50/mo charged by Sevalla for their entry-level plan. However, Sevalla becomes the better fit when your application requires more than 1 GB of RAM, as their tier-based scaling allows for vertical resource expansion that Netlify does not support.