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Hetzner + Coolify

The DIY baseline: a €4 CX22 running Coolify, with 20 TB of traffic included.

hetzner.com/cloud
Overall in vercel alternatives
5of 13 · score 65.8
Data coverage
100%
26 of 26 fields sourced

Best for

  • •Benchmarking whether a managed host is worth its markup
  • •European or US workloads with high bandwidth and low ops needs
  • •Side projects and internal tools where a single box is genuinely enough

Strong on

  • +Exit friction 1 1/13
  • +Self-hostable Yes 1/13
  • +Pricing clarity 5 1/13
  • +Price @ 1 TB $5/mo 1/11
  • +Bandwidth price $1/TB 2/11

Weak on

  • −Sydney region No 11/13
    Better: Vercel: Yes
  • −Free tier 1 13/13
    Better: Cloudflare Workers & Pages: 5
  • −CLI quality 2 9/13
    Better: Vercel: 5
  • −Rollback redeploy 10/13
    Better: Vercel: instant

vs Railway

  • •Ahead on Self-hostable: Yes vs No
  • •Ahead on Pricing clarity: 5 vs 3
  • •Behind on CLI quality: 2 vs 4
  • •Behind on Agent/CI deploy: Partial vs Yes

How Hetzner + Coolify scores among 13 vercel alternatives26 of 26 fields known

Platform12

Frameworks
nextjs, nuxt, sveltekit, astro, dockerfile
4/13
Leader: Vercel · nextjs, nuxt, sveltekit, astro, remix, static
Next.js parity
self-managed
5/13
Leader: Vercel · full
Runtime model
container
6/13
Leader: Vercel · edge+node
Fn timeout
N/A
coolify.io · 2026-11-07
Cold start1st
0ms
1/13
Cron jobs1st
Yes
1/13
Preview deploys1st
Yes
1/13
WAF & DDoS
Partial
4/13
Leader: Vercel · Yes
hetzner.com · 2026-06-15
Observability2nd
included-basic
2/13
Leader: Deno Deploy · included-full
Sydney region
No
11/13
Leader: Vercel · Yes
hetzner.com · 2026-06-15
Monorepo support1st
Yes
1/13
Rollback
redeploy
10/13
Leader: Vercel · instant

Pricing & overage7

Overage behaviour3rd
bill
3/13
Leader: Coolify · throttle
docs.hetzner.com · 2026-06-15
Bandwidth price2nd
$1/TB
2/11
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · $0/TB
docs.hetzner.com · 2026-06-15
Price @ 1 TB1st
$5/mo
1/11
Build minutes incl.
N/A
coolify.io · 2026-11-07
Image opt billing2nd
byo
2/13
Leader: Netlify · included
Analytics cost
N/A
coolify.io · 2026-11-07
Free tier
1
13/13
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · 5

Portability2

Self-hostable1st
Yes
1/13
Exit friction1st
1
1/13

Automation2

CLI quality
2
9/13
Leader: Vercel · 5
Agent/CI deploy
Partial
10/13
Leader: Vercel · Yes

Traction2

GA year
2018
9/13
Leader: Sevalla · 2024
Funding
bootstrapped
10/13
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · public

Positioning1

Pricing clarity1st
5
1/13

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