Vercel alternatives for Next.js (with real prices)
Updated 2026-10-21
Vercel is the easiest place to run Next.js, but Pro is billed per developer seat and has many metered line items (data transfer, CDN requests, function CPU and memory, ISR, image optimization). Here are the alternatives, with prices taken from each host's official pricing page.
Estimated monthly cost for a server-rendered Next.js app
| Host | 10,000 visits | 100,000 visits | 1,000,000 visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | $20.00 | $20.00 | $115.00 |
| Netlify | $9.00 | $30.00 | $230.00 |
| Railway | $7.75 | $14.50 | $82.00 |
| Render | $8.50 | $28.75 | $231.25 |
| Fly.io | $3.99 | $6.69 | $33.69 |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | $5.00 | $7.00 | $34.00 |
| Cloudflare Pages / Workers | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Hostinger VPS | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| Cloudways | $11.00 | $11.00 | $11.00 |
| Coolify (self-host) | €6.49 + $0 | €6.49 + $0 | €6.49 + $0 |
| Dokploy | €6.49 + $0 | €6.49 + $0 | €6.49 + $0 |
| Hetzner Cloud | €6.49 + $0 | €6.49 + $0 | €6.49 + $0 |
Assumptions: 1.5 MB transferred and 20 requests per visit. See the calculator to change framework and traffic.
The options
1. Cloudflare Workers (via OpenNext)
No egress charges, static assets are free, and the Free plan gives 100,000 Worker requests per day. Workers Paid is $5/mo with 10M requests included. Catch: Next.js needs an adapter and the Workers runtime is not Node, so test your app first. Profile
2. Netlify
Closest drop-in experience to Vercel. Credit-based: bandwidth is 20 credits/GB and each production deploy is 15 credits, so frequent deploys count. Profile
3. Fly.io, Railway, Render, DigitalOcean (run next start in a container)
Run Next.js as a normal Node server. You pay for an always-on instance instead of per request, so bills are flatter. Egress differs a lot: Fly.io $0.02/GB (NA/EU), DigitalOcean $0.02/GiB after the allowance, Railway $0.05/GB, Render $0.15/GB after 5 GB. See Railway vs Render vs Fly.io at 100k visits.
4. Self-host with Coolify or Dokploy on a VPS
Coolify self-hosted is free and gives git-push deploys and previews. Put it on a Hetzner server (from €6.49/mo excl. VAT) or a Hostinger VPS (KVM 1 renews at $11.99/mo, 4 TB bandwidth). The bill is the server price, whatever the traffic, but you are the ops team. Coolify · Hetzner
Before you leave Vercel
- Vercel has a default on-demand budget of $200 with notifications and an optional hard pause at 100%. Turn it on today.
- Cache aggressively: cached responses do not run functions, but every request still counts as a CDN request.
Sources
- https://vercel.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://railway.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://render.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://coolify.io/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-21)
- https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ (checked 2026-10-21)
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