- The interesting number is the marginal one, not the base price. - Cloudflare charges nothing per terabyte; Hetzner charges about €1. - Fly.io charges $20 in North America and Europe, roughly double into Asia-Pacific. - Railway charges $50; AWS Amplify and Vercel both land near $150. - Netlify charges around $550, because overage is sold in $55 blocks of 100 GB. - The ordering barely changes as you scale. - At 1 TB Vercel looks competitive because that terabyte is bundled. - At 5 TB it costs upwards of $600 while Cloudflare still costs $5. - So "is Vercel expensive?" has no answer without a traffic number. - Below a terabyte, the honest answer is no. - Above three or four on an image-heavy site, it becomes the largest infrastructure line item. - The mitigation nobody mentions: keep Vercel, put Cloudflare in front, cache aggressively. - That cuts most billable transfer. - More work than moving hosts, far less work than rewriting for a new runtime.
CoolifyOpen-source self-hosted PaaS: git push to your own server, with previews and cron.82.3
DokployOpen-source self-hosted PaaS on Docker Swarm, with multi-node clustering built in.82.3
Cloudflare Workers & PagesV8 isolates on 300+ PoPs, with zero egress charges and near-zero cold starts.69.8
VercelThe frontend cloud that ships Next.js: best-in-class DX, metered everything.66.1
Fly.ioFirecracker microVMs in 35+ regions including Sydney, driven from the CLI.65.0
Hetzner + CoolifyThe DIY baseline: a €4 CX22 running Coolify, with 20 TB of traffic included.64.5
RailwayContainer PaaS with the best developer experience in the category and usage billing.62.3
NorthflankContainer platform with bring-your-own-cloud, GPUs and a sandbox-shaped API.59.8
NetlifyThe original Jamstack host: strong build pipeline, punishing bandwidth overage.57.4
Deno DeployWeb-standard JavaScript at the edge, with built-in OpenTelemetry and a global KV.57.3
AWS Amplify HostingManaged Next.js and static hosting inside AWS, billed per GB with no spend cap.47.2
RenderHeroku-shaped container host with blueprints, managed Postgres and calm billing.41.1Price is one group of 7 fields out of 26. Everything else, features, limits, portability, how well any of it works for agents, is on the full vercel alternatives compared (2026) comparison.
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