A Vercel alternative for everything behind the frontend
Long-lived containers on servers you own, billed per server.
What you get moving from Vercel
Vercel runs frontends and serverless functions on its global network, billed on usage. Serversinc runs long-lived containers on servers you own, billed per server.
Always on
Containers run until you stop them. Workers, queues and WebSocket servers stay up.
Per server, not per seat
£5 a month for three servers, then £2 each. Up to 10 team members at no charge.
Machines you own
Import a box you run, or provision one on DigitalOcean or Hetzner with your key.
Rollback on a failed check
Traffic stays on the old container until the new one passes its health check.
Next to your app
Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB on the same server, with users, schemas and grants.
In your bucket
Scheduled database and volume backups to S3, R2, B2 or Spaces.
The bill, side by side
Vercel Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial projects. Pro is $20 a month with one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit, and each extra deploying seat is $20. Past the credit, usage is billed per unit: data transfer from $0.15 per GB after 1 TB, Active CPU from $0.128 an hour and function invocations from $0.60 per million.
- Platform fee
- Vercel $0 Hobby (non-commercial), $20/mo Pro with $20 usage credit Serversinc £5/mo for three servers
- Seats
- Vercel $20/mo per extra deploying seat; viewers free Serversinc Up to 10, no seat charge
- Compute
- Vercel Active CPU from $0.128/hr, memory from $0.0106/GB-hr, invocations from $0.60 per million Serversinc Your server at your provider's price; run as many apps as fit
- Data transfer
- Vercel 1 TB included on Pro, then from $0.15 per GB Serversinc Not billed by Serversinc; your provider's terms apply
- Build minutes
- Vercel From $0.014 per minute on Pro build machines Serversinc Builds run on your server, not billed
Prices checked on 2026-09-27, in each vendor's own currency.
From Vercel to Serversinc
Run both side by side. Cut over when the new deploy is green.
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01
Containerise the backend
Add a Dockerfile at the repo root. For Next.js, use the standalone output.
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02
Provision a server
Pick a size on DigitalOcean or Hetzner, or import a server you already run.
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03
Create the applications
One for the API or app, one per worker, from the same repo or image. Paste the env vars in bulk.
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04
Move data, then DNS
Provision the database, import a dump, deploy, confirm the health check passes, then point the domain.
Switching from Vercel
Bring your first server
£5 a month covers your first three servers. Every server after that adds £2.