Best Flywheel Alternatives (2026): 10+ options compared
The table lists tools that share a category with Flywheel, picked from the highest scoring and listed closest matches first: most shared categories, then the most of Flywheel's features in those categories, then the most audiences both suit, then our score. Each score is for the category that alternative shares with Flywheel. The tools ranked just above and below Flywheel in Hosting & Infrastructure are listed further down. Costs are estimates for monthly billing based on each tool's listed plans. Our methodology
| # | Tool | Score | Free tier | Starting price | Est. monthly cost | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | No | $30/mo | $30/moStarter | ||
| 1 | A Amazon CloudFrontAmazon CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network. It caches and serves websites, APIs and media from more than 750 edge locations, and includes DDoS protection, WAF and edge compute.
| 7.9/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $15/mo | FreeFree (flat-rate) | |
| 2 |  Cloudinary is a cloud media platform that stores, transforms, optimizes and delivers images and video through a CDN for developers and marketing teams.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $99/mo | Contact for pricing | |
| 3 |  Northflank is a Kubernetes-based developer platform for deploying services, jobs, databases and GPU workloads on its managed cloud or on customers' own cloud accounts.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeSandbox | |
| 4 | A AWS AmplifyAWS Amplify is a pay-as-you-go platform from Amazon Web Services for hosting web apps from Git and building full-stack backends on AWS.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree Tier | |
| 5 |  Amazon's public cloud platform, with over 200 pay-as-you-go services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI, used by startups through large enterprises and governments.
| 7.9/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree plan | |
| 6 | A Amazon S3Amazon S3 is AWS's pay-as-you-go object storage service. Businesses use it to store files, backups, data lakes and static website assets at almost any scale.
| 7.8/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 7 |  Google's public cloud platform providing pay-as-you-go virtual machines, Kubernetes, serverless, databases, storage, networking, data analytics and AI services for businesses of every size.
| 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree Trial | |
| 8 |  Cloudflare is a global edge network. It offers CDN, DNS, DDoS protection and a WAF, plus serverless compute and storage (Workers, R2, D1) for developers and businesses.
| 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $5/mo | FreeFree | |
| 9 | G Google Cloud StorageManaged object storage from Google Cloud for unstructured data, offering several storage classes, multi-region replication and pay-per-use pricing for developers and enterprises.
| 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeAlways Free | |
| 10 | C Cloud RunGoogle Cloud's fully managed serverless platform for running containers, functions, batch jobs, and GPU workloads, scaling automatically and billed by usage.
| 7.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree tier | |
| 11 |  Neon is a managed serverless PostgreSQL service with autoscaling, scale-to-zero and instant database branching, aimed at developers, startups and SaaS teams.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree | |
| 12 | A AlloyDB for PostgreSQLFully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service on Google Cloud for demanding transactional, analytical and AI workloads, with a downloadable Omni edition.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeAlloyDB Omni Developer Edition | |
| 13 |  Supabase is an open-source backend platform built on managed Postgres. It bundles auth, file storage, edge functions, and realtime for developers building web and mobile apps.
| 7.1/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $25/mo | FreeFree | |
| 14 |  ClickHouse Cloud is a managed, usage-billed service for the open-source ClickHouse columnar database, used for real-time analytics on large datasets on AWS, GCP and Azure.
| 7.1/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 15 |  Microsoft's public cloud platform offering virtual machines, containers, serverless, databases, storage and AI services on pay-as-you-go pricing for businesses of all sizes.
| 7.1/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeAzure free account |
Prices from each vendor's published plans, last updated November 2026. How we collect prices
Cheaper than Flywheel for 10 users
Flywheel costs $30/mo for a team of 10 on its Starter plan. These alternatives cost less for the same team, cheapest first.
| Tool | Cost for 10 users | Flywheel for 10 users | Monthly saving | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A Amazon CloudFront | FreeFree (flat-rate) | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Amazon CloudFront |
| FreeSandbox | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Northflank |
A AWS Amplify | FreeFree Tier | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs AWS Amplify |
| FreeFree plan | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| FreeFree Trial | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Google Cloud |
| FreeFree | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Cloudflare |
G Google Cloud Storage | FreeAlways Free | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Google Cloud Storage |
C Cloud Run | FreeFree tier | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Cloud Run |
| FreeFree | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Neon |
A AlloyDB for PostgreSQL | FreeAlloyDB Omni Developer Edition | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs AlloyDB for PostgreSQL |
| FreeFree | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Supabase |
| FreeAzure free account | $30/mo | $30/mo | Flywheel vs Microsoft Azure |
Billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for 10 users.
Free alternatives to Flywheel
- AAmazon CloudFrontFree plan, no user limit listedAmazon CloudFront pricing
- CloudinaryFree for up to 3 usersCloudinary pricing
- NorthflankFree plan, no user limit listedNorthflank pricing
- AAWS AmplifyFree plan, no user limit listedAWS Amplify pricing
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Free plan, no user limit listedAmazon Web Services (AWS) pricing
- Google CloudFree plan, no user limit listedGoogle Cloud pricing
- CloudflareFree plan, no user limit listedCloudflare pricing
- GGoogle Cloud StorageFree plan, no user limit listedGoogle Cloud Storage pricing
- CCloud RunFree plan, no user limit listedCloud Run pricing
- NeonFree plan, no user limit listedNeon pricing
- AAlloyDB for PostgreSQLFree plan, no user limit listedAlloyDB for PostgreSQL pricing
- SupabaseFree plan, no user limit listedSupabase pricing
- Microsoft AzureFree plan, no user limit listedMicrosoft Azure pricing
Ranked near Flywheel in Hosting & Infrastructure
Flywheel is #315 in Hosting & Infrastructure by our score. These are the tools ranked just above and below it. See Flywheel in the Hosting & Infrastructure list
| Rank | Tool | Score | Starting price | Cost for 10 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #312 |  | 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
| #313 |  | 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | $169/mo | $169/moDedicated Server |
| #314 |  | 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
| #316 | C Colima | 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Not listed | FreeOpen Source |
| #317 |  | 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
| #318 |  | 5.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
Flywheel alternatives FAQs
Amazon CloudFront is the closest match to Flywheel on our list, with a score of 7.9/10 on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria. Where it beats Flywheel: has a free plan (Flywheel does not).
Yes. The closest matches with a free plan are Amazon CloudFront, Cloudinary and Northflank.
Among the alternatives listed here, Amazon CloudFront costs the least for 10 users: free on its Free (flat-rate) plan, against about $30/mo on its Starter plan for Flywheel, billed monthly.
The closest matches that score higher than Flywheel are Amazon CloudFront, Cloudinary and Northflank, each in the category it shares with Flywheel: Amazon CloudFront 7.9/10 against 5.4/10 in Hosting & Infrastructure; Cloudinary 7.2/10 against 5.4/10 in Hosting & Infrastructure; Northflank 7.2/10 against 5.4/10 in Hosting & Infrastructure.