Vercel pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Vercel (vercel.com) is a hosting platform. Platform fee per deploying seat, usage from a monthly credit. Free plan: Hobby, non-commercial only.
What Vercel costs
- Entry plan: $20/mo
- Small app: $20/mo
Plan compared: Pro: $20 incl. 1 seat and $20 credit. Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
Vercel price hikes
No price hikes on record for Vercel.
Cheaper alternatives to Vercel
At the entry plan, Vercel costs $20/mo. 7 hosting platforms cost less:
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo (Smallest Machine, 256 MB)
- Railway: $5/mo (Hobby: $5 incl. $5 usage)
- Heroku: $5/mo (Eco: $5 for 1,000 dyno hours)
- Cloudflare Workers: $5/mo (Workers Paid, $5 minimum)
- DigitalOcean Apps: $5/mo (512 MiB shared container)
- Hetzner Cloud: $7.49/mo (CPX02: 1 vCPU, 1 GB (EU))
- Netlify: $9/mo (Personal: $9, 1,000 credits)
Vercel alternatives: 7 cheaper hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Sep 9, 2025 · Repriced: Pro moved to credit-based billing with free viewer seats; Vercel said about 7% of teams would pay more.
- Jun 2025 · Repriced: Fluid compute moved functions to Active CPU plus memory billing, framed as a price cut.
- Apr 25, 2024 · Repriced: Bandwidth split into data transfer and request charges at lower per-GB rates.
Sources
Pricing page: vercel.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Small app assumes serverless traffic that fits the included $20 credit and Pro's Flat Rate CDN tier (1M requests and 1 TB transfer a month). An app that keeps going over 1M requests a month moves to the next CDN tier, +$20.