Best hosting for a Next.js app
Next.js runs anywhere Node runs, but the experience varies enormously. On some platforms a deploy is a git push; on others you maintain the server, the reverse proxy, and the update schedule.
For most solo developers the deciding factors are deploy friction and what happens to the bill when traffic arrives. These picks assume a growing app with real users and a database from a service like Neon or Supabase.
Netlify
1,000 credits/month; extra 500-credit packs cost $5.
- Why it fits
- Static sites and frontend apps that deploy from Git and want a generous, mature workflow.
- How deploys work
- Connect the Git repo; pushes build and deploy automatically with previews for every pull request.
- The tradeoff
- The credit system makes bills hard to predict — traffic, deploys, and compute all drain one pool.
Vercel
Includes $20/month of usage credit, which covers modest traffic.
- Why it fits
- Next.js and frontend apps where you want deploys and previews to just work.
- How deploys work
- Connect the Git repo; every push builds and deploys with a preview URL per branch.
- The tradeoff
- Usage pricing past the credit can climb fast with real traffic, especially data transfer.
Cloudflare Workers
Includes 10M requests and 30M CPU-milliseconds per month.
- Why it fits
- Static sites and JS/TS apps where bandwidth costs matter or a global edge is a plus.
- How deploys work
- Deploy from Git or with the wrangler CLI; framework adapters handle SSR apps.
- The tradeoff
- More platform-specific setup than the git-push hosts — adapters, wrangler config, and Workers-flavored storage.
Ranked by ease of deploy for this stack, then by monthly cost — never by commissions. Your project isn't exactly this one? Answer four questions for a personal recommendation.