Among 13 makers' products we track that are built with Django, here's what they chose for hosting — each counted from a live-product source.
What shape is your app? A frontend or serverless app fits a frontend cloud. Long-running servers, background workers and databases fit a PaaS or container platform. A hyperscaler cloud has every building block but leaves you to assemble them; a platform or framework that deploys into your own cloud account sits between, with platform-style deploys and the resources on your own cloud bill.
DigitalOcean8
Heroku5
Amazon Web Services3
Cloudflare2Counts are live products with a source, not market share; a product using two options counts in both.
DigitalOceanPaaSBest forApp Platform deploys from git next to DigitalOcean's managed databases, storage and droplets.
Trade-offFewer built-in extras than Vercel or Railway, and instances are billed per size, not per request.
8 of the 13 Django products here · free tier
HerokuPaaSBest forA long-established git-push platform with managed Postgres, Redis and a large add-on marketplace.
Trade-offNo free tier, and since March 2026 Heroku runs as a sustaining-engineering platform focused on stability rather than new features.
5 of the 13 Django products here
Amazon Web ServicesHyperscaler cloudBest forThe widest catalog of building blocks — Lambda, containers, managed databases, queues — to assemble your own infrastructure.
Trade-offYou wire up networking, permissions and deploys yourself; billing is per service and hard to predict.
3 of the 13 Django products here · free tier
CloudflareEdge platformBest forCheap global hosting with Workers, plus database (D1) and storage (R2) on the same platform.
Trade-offThe Workers runtime isn't full Node.js; some libraries need adapting.
2 of the 13 Django products here · free tier
Also real options for hosting, not seen among these Django products yet: Vercel, Netlify, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Hetzner Cloud, Coolify.