$0 /mo
saves $60 (100%)
Workers Free plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Also has: managed database from the same vendor.
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Alternatives to Vercel
7 tools compared. Prices checked 2026-10-21.
Developers
What you need:
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- Your own domain
- Serve the app at your own address (app.example.com) instead of one ending in the vendor's name.
- Free HTTPS certificate
- The padlock in the browser, issued and renewed for you at no charge.
- Preview for every branch or pull request
- Each branch or pull request gets its own temporary address, so you can check a change before it goes live.
- Run server code
- More than static files: functions or a server that runs your own code to handle requests, sign-ins and an API.
- One-step rollback
- Put the previous working version back live in one action after a bad deploy.
- Free read-only seats
- Teammates, designers or clients can look at deploys and previews without taking a paid seat.
- Hard spending limit
- A limit you set after which the vendor stops usage or pauses the project instead of billing more.
- Scheduled and background jobs
- Run code on a schedule (cron) or in the background, away from web requests.
- Deploy a Docker container
- Run your own Docker image, so any language or system library works.
- Managed database from the same vendor
- The vendor also runs a database for you, on the same account and bill. Its price is not in the cost shown.
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$60 /mo
Vercel Pro, the cheapest plan with everything you need
5 of 7 alternatives cover what you need. The cheapest of those saves $60 (100%) a month.
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Cover everything you need
$7 /mo
saves $53 (88%)
Basic dyno plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Also has: managed database from the same vendor.
$20 /mo
saves $40 (67%)
Pro plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Also has: managed database from the same vendor.
$20 /mo
saves $40 (67%)
Pro plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Also has: deploy a Docker container, managed database from the same vendor.
$43.25 /mo
saves $16.75 (28%)
Pro plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Also has: deploy a Docker container, managed database from the same vendor.
Cheaper, but missing things you need
$5.69 /mo
saves $54.31 (91%)
Pay as you go plan
Covers 3 of 4 things you need.
Missing preview for every branch or pull request (only partly).
Also has: deploy a Docker container, managed database from the same vendor.
$5.86 /mo
saves $54.14 (90%)
Paid tier plan
Covers 3 of 4 things you need.
Missing preview for every branch or pull request (not stated by the vendor).
Also has: deploy a Docker container, managed database from the same vendor.
One small web app for a business (commercial use), built by this many developers who each need to deploy. Every month it serves 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million web requests, makes 30 production deploys and runs server code 1 million times for about 100 ms each (about 5 ms of that is CPU). Where a vendor rents a server instead of running functions (Render, Railway, DigitalOcean, Fly.io, Heroku), the app runs on its smallest always-on server with 512 MB of memory. Monthly billing in USD, list prices, the cheapest plan that covers all of that and everything you need. Functions (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare) and rented servers are priced for the same app but are not the same thing: functions have time and memory limits and no background processes, so pick the "Always-on backend" use case if the app needs a server that stays on. Plans whose terms forbid commercial use (Vercel Hobby) and plans too small for this load (Netlify Free and Personal credits) are not priced. Databases, storage, image optimisation, logs, analytics and overage beyond this load are not included, and each vendor's own extras are listed on its page. Prices are worked out from each vendor's published rates, not read off a calculator.
Compare in detail
Vercel and the 4 cheapest alternatives. ✓ included +$ paid add-on ~ partly ? not stated – not offered
| Feature | Vercel your tool | Cloudflare Pages | Heroku | Netlify | Railway |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | |||||
| 1 developer | $20 | $0 | $7 | $20 | $11 |
| 3 developers | $60 | $0 | $7 | $20 | $20 |
| 5 developers | $100 | $0 | $7 | $20 | $20 |
| 10 developers | $200 | $0 | $7 | $20 | $20 |
| What you need | |||||
| Your own domain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free HTTPS certificate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Preview for every branch or pull request | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Run server code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Also useful | |||||
| One-step rollback | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free read-only seats | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hard spending limit | ✓ | ? | ? | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduled and background jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deploy a Docker container | ? | ? | ? | ? | ✓ |
| Managed database from the same vendor | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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