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Vercel vs Self-Host: Break-Even Calculator
“Just self-host it on a €6 VPS” ignores your weekends; “just pay Vercel” ignores your bandwidth bill. This calculator models both sides — including an honest price on your own ops time.
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MONTHLY BANDWIDTH2 TB
TEAM SEATS1
BILLABLE BUILD MINUTES0 min
YOUR OPS TIME / MO2 h
YOUR HOURLY RATE (€)
FX ASSUMPTION (1 € IN $)
Vercel Pro
1 seat × $20$20.00
Bandwidth over 1 TB included+$150.00
Build minutes (0 × $0.014)—
$170.00/mo≈€147.83
Excludes function/edge-request usage beyond plan inclusion — heavy API workloads bill extra.
Self-host: VPS + Coolify
OVHcloud VPS-1 (cheapest match)€3.81
Egress overageincluded
Your ops time (2h × €40)+€80.00
€83.81/mo€3.81 infra
View OVHcloud →Self-hosting is ≈€64.02/mo cheaper at these inputs (including your ops time).
The honest fine print
- Ops time is the real cost of self-hosting: updates, backups, monitoring, incident response at 2 a.m. Adjust the hours slider to your reality — 0 h/mo is not it.
- Self-hosting on one VPS also gives up preview deployments, global edge caching, DDoS absorption and support — priced at zero here.
- Only VPS plans meeting Coolify's recommended minimum (2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM) are considered as the self-host pick.
- Prices from our verified database (last verified July 20, 2026); USD↔EUR uses the editable assumption above.