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An app busy 3 hours a day1 vCPU, 1 GiB, 3 hours of requests a day, at each host's published rates, read 18 Oct 2026.How Apps are billed →

  • Runtime$1.75

  • Railway$11

  • Vercel$20

  • Render$25

  • Fly.io$33

  • Heroku$50

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RuntimeRailwayRenderFly.ioHeroku
Cost a monthThe same app$1.75$11$25$33$50
Stops billing when idlePartly
Bills only the CPU used
Switches only after a health checkPartlyPartly

Each host as its own pricing page and docs said it, read from 18 Oct 2026 to 6 November 2026. How Apps are billed

Built for real traffic.Nothing to set up.

  1. 01Copies follow the trafficMore copies as requests arrive, none awake when they stop.
    • copy 1awake
    • copy 2✓ serving
    • copy 3frozen
  2. 02Live once healthyA version takes traffic only once it passes its health check.

    v14✓ healthy · live

    v13kept for rollback

    v15failed its check · not live

  3. 03Frozen is freeA quiet copy, and the spares kept ready, cost nothing.

    copy 3Wakes on the next request

    1. Serving
    2. Quiet
    3. ✓ Frozen
  4. 04One address, HTTPSEvery copy behind it, your own domain too.

    3f9c2e…runtimehost.comHTTPS

  5. 05Your agent ships itDeploy, roll back and read copies over MCP, the SDK or the API.

    runtime.apps.deploy(app.id, { image: "web", wait: true })

    copies started · health check passed

    ✓ live at 3f9c2e…runtimehost.com

  6. 06Billed while awake$0.03 an active vCPU-hour, $0.01 a GiB-hour.

    Awake 3 h: billedFrozen 21 h: free

    12 am6 am12 pm6 pm12 am

Keep your code.Connect the repository.

  1. 01Sign inStart free, no card.Start free
  2. 02Connect your repositoryYour package.json stays as it is.
    runtime builds repos connect acme/web --deploy web
  3. 03It runsSame code, a smaller bill.✓ Live on Runtime

Ready for production.From your first deploy.

28,000+

SDK installs last month, on npm and PyPI

  • FirecrackerThe isolation behind AWS Lambda
  • Your own keyEncrypted per organization
  • Secrets stay outsideAdded on the way out
  • SSO and audit logSAML, OIDC and SCIM

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What does a quiet App cost?

Almost nothing. A frozen copy is free, and so are the spares kept ready. An App with no copy awake pays only for its two saved copies, the live version and the one before, at $0.08 per GB a month. More

How long does the first request wait?

A frozen copy wakes on the first request, as it was left. A copy frozen over 30 minutes is parked and takes longer to wake. Keep one copy awake and it never waits. More

What does an awake copy cost?

$0.03 per active vCPU-hour for the CPU it uses, and $0.01 per GiB-hour of memory, only while it is awake. More

What can I run?

Any server in a Linux image that serves HTTP on the port it is given: a Dockerfile, or any public or private registry image. A copy takes up to 16 vCPUs and 64 GiB of memory. More

What if a deploy is broken?

Nothing changes for your visitors. A version takes traffic only once it answers its health check; one that never does fails with the reason and its last output, and the old one keeps serving. More

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