Navidrome Pricing: Managed vs Self-Hosted
The cheapest managed Navidrome starts at about $7/month. Self-hosted, this stack measures 512 MiB across 1 service, which fits a $19/month flat plan with room left over.
#the numbers
Managed prices as of June 2026, each linked to its source. The self-hosted row is not an estimate: the RAM figure is what this stack allocates in its compose file, and the plan is the smallest one that holds it.
| Option | Plan | Monthly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted on Miget ★ | 2 GiB, 2 vCPU | $19 | the whole stack, flat - no per-user or per-request metering, and the plan holds your other apps too |
| Spotify | Premium | ~$13 | $12.99/mo - a perpetual rental |
| Apple Music | Individual | ~$11 | $10.99/mo |
| Plex Pass | Monthly | ~$7 | $6.99/mo; lifetime rises to $749.99 on Jul 1 2026 |
Streaming rentals never stop billing; Navidrome streams a library you own outright.
#what it costs on other platforms
Same stack, published rates elsewhere - estimates from each platform's own pricing page, not quotes.
| Platform | Estimated monthly | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Miget ★ | $19 | flat plan, 2 GiB - databases included, no meters |
| Heroku | ~$25 | no volumes; nothing between 1 GB ($50) and 2.5 GB ($250) dynos - 2 GB containers cost far more than shown |
| Render | ~$20 | per-service instances (0.5 GB $7, 2 GB $25) - every container is its own paid service |
| Railway | ~$13 | usage-based ($10/GB RAM-mo); vCPU billed separately at $20/vCPU-mo on top |
| Fly.io | ~$11 | cheapest sticker price - but burstable shared CPUs (1/16 core; dedicated vCPUs cost ~2-3×), no compose deploys (one app per container, manual wiring), managed DBs billed extra |
| DO App Platform | ~$11 | no persistent volumes - stateful containers need managed DBs/Spaces (base $5 Spaces included here) |
#sizing, if you outgrow the small plan
The $19 plan is the smallest that fits. For production traffic you generally want the next tier up, and dedicated vCPU if the workload is CPU-bound rather than idle-waiting.
| Use case | Plan | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Fits the stack | 2 GiB, 2 vCPU shared | $19 |
| Comfortable, room for your own apps | 4 GiB, 2 vCPU shared | $25 |
| Dedicated vCPU (production) | 16 GiB, 8 vCPU dedicated | $169 |
CPU only matters during transcoding; 512 MiB is comfortable. The 50 GB music volume is the variable - resize it to your collection. Keep replicas at 1 (single-writer library).
Run Navidrome yourself
The compose file is open source and runs locally with docker compose up. One step to deploy it to
Miget on the $19/month plan, databases included.