// COST CALCULATOR
Your Vercel bill,
head to head.
Enter the five meters from your Vercel usage dashboard. Both bills, line by line, at list prices — and when Vercel is cheaper for your profile, the verdict says so.
Start from a profile
Audience
bandwidth is zone-priced: US/EU $0.02/GB · Asia $0.06 · S.Am $0.09 · MEA $0.12
GB/mo
CDN egress — our rate depends on your audience below
GB-hr/mo
same meter both sides — our rate is Vercel’s, exactly
hr/mo
same meter both sides — billed at half Vercel’s rate
M/mo
we don’t meter these
M/mo
every HTTP request, static included — we don’t meter these either
min/mo
same 4 vCPU/8GB machine on both sides
GB/mo
server responses + cache fills — $0.02 vs Vercel’s $0.06
Solo developer. Adding teammates: Vercel Pro is $20/dev;
our team seats are on the waitlist at a planned $6/dev.
// You save $13.00/mo (−65%) $7.00 vs $20.00
Ratna Hobby $7/MO + USAGE
Hobby base
incl. 150 GB CDN + $7 credit
$7.00
Provisioned memory
60 GB-hr × $0.0106 — Vercel's exact rate
$0.64
Active CPU
2 hr × $0.064 — half Vercel's
$0.13
Idle time
scale-to-zero — apps sleep between visits, wake in ~5ms
FREE
Requests
edge requests + invocations — not metered
FREE
Builds
150 min × $0.005
$0.75
Origin transfer
5 GB × $0.02 — ⅓ of Vercel's
$0.10
Bandwidth
2.5 GB × $0.02 US/EU–$0.12 by zone
$0.15
Usage credit
first $7 of usage is included
-$1.76
Total /mo $7.00
Vercel Pro $20/MO + USAGE
Pro base (1 seat)
incl. 1 TB CDN + $20 credit
$20.00
Provisioned memory
60 GB-hr × $0.0106
$0.64
Active CPU
2 hr × $0.128
$0.26
Invocations
0.3M × $0.6
$0.18
Builds
150 min × $0.014 · Elastic 4-CPU default
$2.10
Origin transfer
5 GB × $0.06
$0.30
Edge requests
0.5M — within 10M
FREE
Bandwidth
25 GB — within 1 TB
FREE
Usage credit
applies to all usage past the 1 TB / 10M allowances
-$3.47
Total /mo $20.00
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// Assumptions
- Vercel list prices (Pro, 1 seat), verified 2026-07. Enterprise discounts not modeled.
- Our bandwidth is priced per zone at 2× what the CDN costs us: US/EU $0.02/GB (7.5× under Vercel), up to $0.12 for MEA — under Vercel's flat $0.15 in every zone. The 150 GB allowance covers US/EU traffic; international bytes bill from the first GB. Vercel's $0.15 shown is also its cheapest-region rate.
- Vercel's credit mechanic per its Pro-plan docs (July 2026): 1 TB transfer and 10M edge requests are included; past those allowances, all usage — compute, builds, bandwidth, requests — draws the $20 credit before on-demand billing starts.
- Vercel builds are priced as its default Elastic machines at 4 CPUs ($0.014/min); teams that stay on queued Standard builds pay $0 for builds there.
- Origin transfer (server responses + CDN cache fills) is metered on both sides: $0.02/GB here — a third of Vercel's $0.06 Fast Origin Transfer.
- Vercel meters we don't model — ISR reads/writes, image optimization, analytics — would only raise the Vercel column. Compute rates shown are its cheapest region (iad1); most regions run up to 1.7× higher.
- Compute is metered identically on both sides: provisioned memory + active CPU. Our memory rate is Vercel's exact cheapest-region rate ($0.0106/GB-hr); our active CPU is half theirs ($0.064 vs $0.128). CPU bills only while actually executing — I/O waits are free on both sides.
- We scale to zero: an app with no traffic bills $0 of usage, and wakes in ~5ms when the next request lands — no cold-start tax (on Vercel, cold-start prevention is a Pro feature). One honest asymmetry the other way: between bursts we hold the VM warm for ~2 minutes before it sleeps (billing memory only, at $0.0106/GB-hr), while Vercel pauses within seconds — a steadily-trickling app can bill somewhat more memory GB-hours here than a same-meters read suggests. Check both columns against a real month.
// When not to switch
- A static site around a terabyte a month with a heavily international audience can still land a few dollars cheaper inside Vercel Pro's bundled 1 TB — try the "Content site" preset. That's the one profile in our benchmarks where Vercel comes out ahead.
- Side project not making money yet? Vercel's free Hobby tier is honestly fine. Come back when it starts earning — commercial use is where their $20/seat kicks in and our $7 starts.