Hosting · facts read November 12, 2026
Vercel
Managed hosting for frontend frameworks with serverless functions and preview deployments. First-class Next.js support with a preview URL for every branch.
- Free plan
- Hobby, $0/month: 1M function invocations, 4 hours Active CPU, 1M CDN requests, 100 GB Fast Data Transfer and 10 GB Fast Origin Transfer per month, 1 developer seat.
- Paid from
- Pro: $20/month, including $20 of usage credit, then pay as you go.
- Monthly cost at 1,000 users
- $20/month Pro $20/month (Hobby can't be used for a product that charges or serves a business); the profile fits in the included $20 usage credit.
- Free plan allows commercial use
- No
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
Source: Vercel pricing, read November 12, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you commit.
Best for
- Next.js apps
- Preview deployments per pull request
- Small teams that want no servers to manage
Watch out for
- Hobby (free) is for personal, non-commercial use; a product that charges money needs Pro.
- On Hobby, going over the included usage means waiting until 30 days have passed to use that feature again; extra usage can't be bought on Hobby.
How Cuely scores Vercel
The published scores, from −3 to +3, that decide when Cuely picks it. Method
- +3Next.js or React. Built by the Next.js team; Next.js features work without adapters.
- +2traffic comes in viral spikes. On Pro, CDN requests and transfer are flat-rate, and a cached response doesn't run your function, so a viral day of page views and polls costs little. Hobby stops for 30 days once you pass 1M CDN requests a month.
- +1global low latency. Global CDN with edge middleware.
- −1keep costs as low as possible. Free only for non-commercial use; a paying product starts at $20/month.
- −2background jobs or long-running servers. Functions are request-scoped; long jobs need a queue or another host.
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