Vercel exit calculator
Vercel bill growing? Enter what you pay now — we show what hosting the same Next.js app costs elsewhere, and how much you would actually save per year. Real list prices as of 2026-10-12, including the honest downsides of leaving.
New to this question? Read Is Vercel worth it in 2026? The real math first — the decision framework behind these numbers.
| Alternative | Plan | Infra $/mo | + Ops, migration & stack | True $/mo | Save/yr vs now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orkestrpaas | Starter | $0 | +$135 | $135 | $780 |
| Railwaypaas | Hobby | $5 | +$135 | $140 | $720 |
| Herokupaas | Eco | $5 | +$135 | $140 | $720 |
| Netlifyserverless | Pro | $20 | +$120 | $140 | $720 |
| Fly.iopaas | shared-cpu-1x 512MB | $5.17 | +$143 | $148 | $622 |
| DigitalOcean App Platformpaas | Shared 1 vCPU / 512MB | $5.48 | +$143 | $148 | $618 |
| Renderpaas | 512 MB / 0.5 CPU | $17.35 | +$135 | $152 | $572 |
| Koyebpaas | eco-micro | $29 | +$143 | $172 | $336 |
| DigitalOcean Dropletsvps | Basic 512MB | $4 | +$263 | $267 | not worth it |
| OVHcloud VPSvps | VPS-1 | $4.54 | +$263 | $268 | not worth it |
| Vultrvps | Cloud Compute 1GB | $5 | +$263 | $268 | not worth it |
| Linode (Akamai)vps | Nanode 1GB | $5 | +$263 | $268 | not worth it |
| AWS Lightsailvps | $5 bundle | $5 | +$263 | $268 | not worth it |
| Hostinger VPSvps | KVM 1 | $6.49 | +$263 | $269 | not worth it |
| Scalewayvps | DEV1-S | $7.1 | +$263 | $270 | not worth it |
| Netcupvps | VPS 500 G12.5 | $7.79 | +$263 | $271 | not worth it |
| Hetzner Cloudvps | CPX22 (Regular Performance) | $23.59 | +$263 | $287 | not worth it |
The honest fine print
Infra $/mo includes metered egress where the platform charges it (Fly $0.02/GB, Railway $0.05/GB beyond included usage), from the traffic tier you picked. Vercel itself moved Pro teams to Flat Rate CDN in September 2026 — 1TB included, then a flat $20/mo tier up to 50TB — so a bandwidth-driven Vercel bill is now easier to shrink without leaving. Migration & ops is the part most calculators skip: your one-time migration hours amortized over the evaluation window, plus ongoing ops time. Vercel→VPS is not a 1:1 swap, so ops time is scaled by platform — a raw VPS carries the full ops hours you entered, a managed PaaS (Railway, Render, Fly) about a quarter, managed hosting almost none. True $/mo is what switching really costs over the window — and why a $5 box can read “not worth it” once your time is priced in. Under ~$25/mo on Vercel, it almost never is.
Replicate Vercel properly (on by default) adds the services Vercel bundles that the alternative doesn’t ship: CDN + SSL via Cloudflare’s free tier ($0 — but it’s one more thing you run), image optimization (~$5/mo, Cloudflare Images), CI + preview deploys (~$8/mo, GitHub Actions on a private repo), and a Redis/ISR cache (~$10/mo, Upstash) on platforms where the disk is ephemeral or yours-to-manage. Only the missing pieces are added per provider — a platform that already bundles everything adds $0. Hover the extras column for each row’s breakdown. Turn it off if your app genuinely needs none of that.
One more thing in a VPS’s favour: the figure here is per box, for one app. A single VPS can host several apps, so if you’re running more than one, divide its cost across them — that’s the strongest case for going the VPS route.