Contrarian View: 2026 Startups Should Skip Vercel for Next.js 15 – Use Cloudflare Pages for 40% Lower Hosting Costs

By Q2 2026, Vercel’s standard Next.js 15 hosting tier will cost startups an average of $0.08 per GB of bandwidth and $0.12 per serverless function execution—40% more than Cloudflare Pages’ $0.05/GB and $0.07/execution pricing for identical workloads. For a startup serving 500k monthly active users (MAU) with 2TB monthly bandwidth and 10M function calls, that’s a $2,400 annual difference that compounds as you scale. For a Series A startup with 5M MAU, 20TB monthly bandwidth, and 100M function cal