Hosting · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 25 Sept 2026
For a small team shipping Next.js, take Vercel: $20 /mo. per seat, $20 of included usage credit that absorbs the metered lines for a long time on an app that mostly serves HTML and JSON, and the exact framework fit. The arithmetic inverts on team size rather than on traffic. Netlify's Pro is $20 /month for unlimited members where Vercel bills each seat, so a modest site maintained by eight people is one $20 bill on Netlify and eight on Vercel, and Netlify's free tier is "$0 forever" with no commercial-use restriction, where Vercel's Hobby plan is non-commercial only and therefore not an option for a business at any price. If bandwidth rather than seats or compute is your dominant cost, neither is the answer: Cloudflare Workers charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is a different pricing model rather than a discount. StackTab hosts on neither's paid plan and takes no referral fee.
Priced for an app where 2% of users pay $20 a month, on the usage a user of that kind typically implies, on the cheapest plan of each service that can carry it.
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VercelThe Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.verified 24 Sept 2026vercel.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
| NetlifyThe other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project.verified 24 Sept 2026netlify.com/pricing | $ | $ | price not publishedPro |
| Cloudflare WorkersEdge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 24 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
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- The Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.verified 24 Sept 2026vercel.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 10,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 100,000 users
- $
175175 Pro
- The other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project.verified 24 Sept 2026netlify.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Free - 10,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 100,000 users
- price not publishedPro
- Edge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 24 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 10,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 100,000 users
- $
1010 Workers Paid
A cell reading not published is not missing data. It means the vendor does not publish a rate at that usage on its own pricing page, so no honest figure exists to print.
Change any of those assumptions in the calculator.
The closest comparison in hosting, and the two bills are shaped differently enough that the same app can be cheaper on either one.
Vercel meters usage across many dimensions. Netlify leans on plans and members with a credit system on top.
- Metered against per-member. Vercel Pro is $20/mo including $20 of usage, then roughly a dozen metered dimensions on top. Netlify Personal is $9/mo for one member, Pro $20/mo for unlimited members, with additional credits sold in blocks. A five-person team on a small site often costs less on Netlify; a one-person team on a busy site often costs less on Vercel.
- Next.js support. Vercel builds Next.js. New features work there first and best. Netlify’s adapter is good and has closed most of the gap, but on the day a major version ships, "works on Vercel" and "works on Netlify" are not yet the same statement.
- Bandwidth. Both charge for it, and neither is cheap next to Cloudflare, which charges nothing. Cloudflare is in the table for that reason: if bandwidth is your dominant cost, this comparison is the wrong one to be having.
| If | Then |
|---|---|
| A Next.js app, small team | Vercel: the included usage covers a lot and the framework fit is exact. |
| A larger team on a modest site | Netlify: unlimited members at $20/mo changes the arithmetic. |
| Bandwidth is the dominant cost | Cloudflare Workers: neither of these can match free egress. |
Usually yes, and the friction is in the edges rather than the app: image optimisation, middleware behaviour, ISR revalidation and cron jobs all differ. Budget a day, not an afternoon.
It depends entirely on how many people are on the team. Netlify's Personal plan is $9 /month for one member and Pro is $20 /month for unlimited members; Vercel's Pro is $20 /mo. per seat. One developer, the two are close. Eight developers on a modest site, Netlify is roughly a quarter of the price. On heavy metered usage the comparison reverses and has to be done in the calculator, because Netlify meters in credits and Vercel meters in gigabytes and invocations.
Because Hobby is non-commercial only. A plan that forbids the thing you are doing is excluded before price is considered: recommending it to someone charging money for their app would be recommending a terms-of-service violation. Netlify's "$0 forever" tier carries no such restriction.
Fast Data Transfer is 100 GB included on Hobby, and on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDN rather than billed per GB: "CDN requests, fast data transfer, and other resources are no longer billed directly." 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. Netlify's overage is denominated in credits instead: "$5 / 500 additional credits" on Personal and $10 / 1,500 on Pro.