Hosting · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 26 Sept 2026
On free tier, Vercel is $0 /mo. (Hobby): non-commercial use only and Fly.io is No free plan: First 10GB free each month of egress. On cheapest paid plan, Vercel is $20 /mo. (Pro) and Fly.io does not publish it. On rate above what's included, Vercel is Fast Data Transfer 100 GB included on Hobby; on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDN and Fly.io is $0.15/GB per month for volumes, $0.08/GB per month egress. StackTab sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either: it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
2 compared · 3 criteria, identical for every column · every competitor figure read off that company's own page · last verified 2026-09-18
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VercelThe Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.verified 25 Sept 2026vercel.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
| Fly.ioMicro-VMs you place in specific regions, billed by the second.verified 25 Sept 2026fly.io/docs/about/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
- Sorted by the total at
- The Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.verified 25 Sept 2026vercel.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 10,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 100,000 users
- $
175175 Pro
- Micro-VMs you place in specific regions, billed by the second.verified 25 Sept 2026fly.io/docs/about/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2.992.99 Pay as you go - 10,000 users
- $
1919 Pay as you go - 100,000 users
- $
176176 Pay as you go
| Criterion | Vercel | Fly.io |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 /mo. (Hobby): non-commercial use onlyThe restriction is the whole story: a plan that forbids charging money for the app is not an option for a business, at any price. | No free plan: First 10GB free each month of egressThere is no free tier and no monthly platform fee; the only thing given away is the first 10 GB of outbound transfer. |
| Cheapest paid plan | $20 /mo. (Pro)Includes $20 of usage credit, so the first $20 of metered usage is absorbed before anything else appears on the bill. | Not publishedFly.io publishes no named plans at all. You pay for machines, volumes and egress, so there is no plan fee to quote. |
| Rate above what's included | Fast Data Transfer 100 GB included on Hobby; on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDNVercel moved CDN usage onto flat rate CDN on Pro after this row was read on 8 September 2026: "CDN requests, fast data transfer, and other resources are no longer billed directly." The 1 TB allowance and the $0.15 per GB overage this row recorded are both off the page. The $0.15 per GB still on the page belongs to static IPs on the shared pool. The metered rates that remain on Pro include function invocations starting at $0.60 per 1M, Fluid active CPU starting at $0.128 per hour and Fluid provisioned memory starting at $0.0106 per GB-hour. | $0.15/GB per month for volumes, $0.08/GB per month egressMachines are billed while running, so an app that stops between requests costs materially less than the same app on a fixed instance. |
“Not published” means that company does not state the figure on the page cited at the foot of this page. It is not a claim that no such figure exists. A company that publishes no limit most likely has none, but “most likely” is not a fact, and this table prints what was read rather than what was inferred.
- Free tier: what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words
- Rate above what's included: the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one
Vercel: $0 /mo. (Hobby): non-commercial use only. The restriction is the whole story: a plan that forbids charging money for the app is not an option for a business, at any price. Fly.io: No free plan: First 10GB free each month of egress. There is no free tier and no monthly platform fee; the only thing given away is the first 10 GB of outbound transfer. Read from vercel.com and fly.io on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Vercel: $20 /mo. (Pro). Includes $20 of usage credit, so the first $20 of metered usage is absorbed before anything else appears on the bill. Fly.io does not state it on fly.io. Fly.io publishes no named plans at all. You pay for machines, volumes and egress, so there is no plan fee to quote. Read from vercel.com and fly.io on 2026-09-18.
Vercel: Fast Data Transfer 100 GB included on Hobby; on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDN. Vercel moved CDN usage onto flat rate CDN on Pro after this row was read on 8 September 2026: "CDN requests, fast data transfer, and other resources are no longer billed directly." The 1 TB allowance and the $0.15 per GB overage this row recorded are both off the page. The $0.15 per GB still on the page belongs to static IPs on the shared pool. The metered rates that remain on Pro include function invocations starting at $0.60 per 1M, Fluid active CPU starting at $0.128 per hour and Fluid provisioned memory starting at $0.0106 per GB-hour. Fly.io: $0.15/GB per month for volumes, $0.08/GB per month egress. Machines are billed while running, so an app that stops between requests costs materially less than the same app on a fixed instance. Read from vercel.com and fly.io on 2026-09-18. Rate above what's included here means the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one.
Vercel: You are shipping Next.js and you want the framework and the platform to be the same decision. Nothing else here matches Vercel on that, the $20 of included usage absorbs the metered lines for a long time on an app that mostly serves HTML and JSON, and the preview-deployment workflow is the one every other platform is copying. Fly.io: You need the app running in several regions and close to the user, and you are willing to think about machines rather than a platform. Fly.io has no plan fee at all, so a small multi-region deployment costs what its machines cost, and nothing else in this table prices region-by-region placement as an ordinary thing to do.
StackTab does not sell any of these and has nothing to gain from which one you choose: it scores them. Each case below is the one that option genuinely wins.
- Vercel: You are shipping Next.js and you want the framework and the platform to be the same decision. Nothing else here matches Vercel on that, the $20 of included usage absorbs the metered lines for a long time on an app that mostly serves HTML and JSON, and the preview-deployment workflow is the one every other platform is copying.
- Fly.io: You need the app running in several regions and close to the user, and you are willing to think about machines rather than a platform. Fly.io has no plan fee at all, so a small multi-region deployment costs what its machines cost, and nothing else in this table prices region-by-region placement as an ordinary thing to do.
Prices and limits move, and a page quoting a stale one is worth less than a page quoting none. Every source is printed here so a reader can check it against the day they are reading this, and a job re-fetches each of these URLs on a schedule and fails when a figure above no longer appears on the page it came from.
- Vercel: vercel.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
- Fly.io: fly.io/docs/about/pricing/: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
Last verified 2026-09-18. https://stacktab.thecompound.tech/compare/vercel-vs-fly-io