Fly.io is $10/mo cheaper.
That’s $120/year. Vercel costs 2× as much.
Runs your app in VMs you can place close to users.
Try itYou can run a normal server process
Machines can sit near the users who call them
A small app can scale to zero
You own the Docker image and the process
More setup than pushing a Next.js app to Vercel
Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.
Try itA branch gets a URL without extra setup
Next.js features work without a custom server
Connects to the GitHub repo directly
Long-running workers and custom VMs are a poor fit
The bill climbs once you leave the hobby limits