Vercel
Cloud platform for deploying web apps and frameworks like Next.js, with preview URLs and serverless functions.
9 tools you can use instead of Cloudflare Pages, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Vercel, Coolify and AWS Amplify are the most used. Stats updated 16 hours ago.
Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack hosting platform for frontend developers, offering Git-based automated deployments, unlimited sites and bandwidth, and hosting on Cloudflare's edge network. The Free tier includes 500 builds a month, with Pro at $20 to $25 a month for more concurrent and monthly builds.
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Cloud platform for deploying web apps and frameworks like Next.js, with preview URLs and serverless functions.
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| Tool | Pricing | Free plan | Paid from | Open source | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages | Freemium | Yes: 500 builds a month, 1 concurrent build, 100 custom domains per project, unlimited sites and bandwidth | $20-$25 a month (Pro plan) | No | 4.6k |
| Vercel | Freemium | Yes: Hobby, for personal and non-commercial use, with 100 GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month | $20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit | No | 16.3k |
| Coolify | Freemium | Yes: self-hosting Coolify on your own infrastructure is free forever with full access to all features | $5 a month for Coolify Cloud, connecting up to 2 servers | Yes, Apache-2.0 | 62.6k |
| AWS Amplify | Pay as you go | Yes: AWS Free Tier includes 1,000 build minutes, 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer a month for 12 months | $0.01 per build minute (Standard instance) beyond the free tier | No | 9.6k |
| Netlify | Freemium | Yes: 300 credits a month, with a hard limit and no option to buy more | $9 a month for Personal (1,000 credits) | No | 1.9k |
| Railway | Pay as you go | Yes: a 30-day trial with a one-time $5 credit, then a free plan with $1 of credit a month (0.5 GB RAM and 1 vCPU per service) | $5 a month for Hobby, including $5 of usage | No | 622 |
| Fly.io | Pay as you go | Limited free usage may be available for small workloads; primarily pay-as-you-go | About $1.94 a month (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB, running continuously) | No | 1.7k |
| Heroku | Paid | No free dyno tier; the lowest-cost Eco dyno starts at $5 a month | $5 a month (Eco dyno, Cedar) | No | 889 |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | Freemium | Yes: up to 3 apps with static sites and 1 GiB data transfer per app | $5 a month (Shared Fixed instance, 512 MiB) | No | None |
| Render | Freemium | Yes: the Hobby workspace plan, free services with 512 MB RAM and 5 GB bandwidth a month included | $25 a month for the Pro workspace plan, plus usage-based compute, bandwidth and storage | No | None |
Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.
By GitHub stars, Vercel is the most used alternative to Cloudflare Pages listed on ScratchDB, with 16.3k stars.
Coolify is open source.
Vercel, Coolify, AWS Amplify, Netlify, Railway, DigitalOcean App Platform and Render have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.