Is Koyeb or Vercel cheaper in 2026?

It depends on volume — Koyeb wins 2 of the 3 modelled workloads and Vercel wins 1. The scenario table above shows where the crossover falls.

What is the difference in egress cost between Koyeb and Vercel?

Koyeb charges $0.030 per GB against Vercel's $0.150, roughly 5× cheaper. Egress usually dominates the bill once traffic is measured in terabytes.

Which has the better free tier, Koyeb or Vercel?

Both publish one. Koyeb: One free instance with limited resources. Vercel: Hobby plan with 100 GB of transfer per month.

What do these estimates not include?

Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.

Koyeb vs Vercel

Neither wins outright: Koyeb is cheaper for 2 of 3 workloads and Vercel for the rest.

List prices checked May 2026

Rate cards side by side

Only the axes at least one of them bills on. A dash means that provider does not charge for it.

Billing axis	Koyeb	Vercel	Difference
Entry plan	$6.40/mo	$20.00/mo	3.1× Koyeb
Data transfer out	$0.030/GB	$0.150/GB	5× Koyeb
Free tier	Yes	Yes	—

Source: Koyeb pricing (May 2026) · Vercel pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Monthly cost for three real workloads

The rate cards applied to identical usage. This is where the winner changes.

Workload	Koyeb	Vercel	Cheaper
Side projectA personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.	$9.40	$20	Koyebsaves $11/mo (53%)
Growing SaaSA funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.	$36	$20	Vercelsaves $16/mo (45%)
Media-heavy siteA publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.	$306	$1,370	Koyebsaves $1,064/mo (78%)

Workload definitions are identical on every comparison page, so figures here can be read against any other pair in the same category.

What each one is for

Koyeb

by Koyeb

Deploys containers globally with scale-to-zero and per-second billing, aimed at teams that want edge distribution without managing a Kubernetes cluster.

Free tier: One free instance with limited resources

Vercel

by Vercel

The reference platform for Next.js, priced per seat with bundled usage. Bandwidth overage costs roughly fifteen times what a discount CDN charges, which is where surprise bills come from.

Free tier: Hobby plan with 100 GB of transfer per month

Common questions

Is Koyeb or Vercel cheaper in 2026?: It depends on volume — Koyeb wins 2 of the 3 modelled workloads and Vercel wins 1. The scenario table above shows where the crossover falls.
What is the difference in egress cost between Koyeb and Vercel?: Koyeb charges $0.030 per GB against Vercel's $0.150, roughly 5× cheaper. Egress usually dominates the bill once traffic is measured in terabytes.
Which has the better free tier, Koyeb or Vercel?: Both publish one. Koyeb: One free instance with limited resources. Vercel: Hobby plan with 100 GB of transfer per month.
What do these estimates not include?: Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.