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Vercel vs self-hosted

A rough estimate of what you could save by running your apps on a cheap VPS with Better-PaaS. Actual Vercel pricing depends on your exact usage and plan.

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Estimated Vercel cost

$20/mo

Hobby plan may fit

Better-PaaS on Growth VPS

$10/mo

2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM

Estimated monthly savings

$10/mo

$120 per year

How this estimate works

  • Vercel Hobby is free but has limits. We flag Pro ($20/seat) when you have a team, more than 3 apps, more than 100k visits, or more than 1 TB bandwidth.
  • Vercel bandwidth overage is estimated at $0.40/GB beyond 1 TB/month.
  • Function execution is estimated at 5 invocations per visit, with overage beyond 1M invocations.
  • Managed database is estimated at $20/month. With Better-PaaS, databases run as containers on the same VPS.
  • Self-hosted pricing is just your VPS cost. Better-PaaS itself is free and open source.

These are rough numbers. Use them for directional comparison, not exact budgeting.