Next.js Pricing
- Development pricing
- No licence fee
- Free plan
Next.js pricing: Free and open source (MIT licence). There is no seat count and no subscription, so the cost of running it is the only cost there is. Hosting - Vercel is $0 on Hobby, $20 a seat a month on Pro, and every other charge is set out below with the page it was read from.
Next.js publishes no standalone pricing page, so this opens the product site. Figures here were read on 9 August 2026.
Next.js pricing at a glance
| Cost of the software | Free and open source (MIT licence) |
|---|---|
| Run it on your own infrastructure | Yes |
| Costs below read from | Each charging vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Where the money actually goes with Next.js
The Next.js licence: Free and open source (MIT licence). That is not the cost. These are the charges a running Next.js site attracts, each read from the charging vendor's own page on the date shown. They are alternatives and add-ons rather than a bill, so they are not totalled.
| What you pay for | Cost | What decides it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting - Vercel | $0 on Hobby, $20 a seat a month on Pro | Hobby is personal and non-commercial per Vercel's own pricing FAQ, so a commercial site starts at Pro. Pro includes 1 TB of bandwidth and 10M requests, then $0.15 per GB | Vercel pricing Checked 20 August 2026 |
| Hosting - Netlify | $0 a month on Free, $9 a month on Personal | Free is capped at 300 credits, 1 member and 1 concurrent build. Personal includes 1,000 credits, and extra credits are $5 per 500 | Netlify pricing Checked 9 August 2026 |
Which Next.js plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You are building a React application with state and auth | Next.js framework | Free and MIT licensed. Routing, rendering and data fetching are solved for you. |
| You want the smoothest hosting experience | Vercel | Same team as the framework, so ISR, image optimisation and edge middleware work with least configuration. |
| You want to host elsewhere | Cloudflare, Netlify or any Node host | Adapters exist and work, with more configuration and occasional gaps. |
| You are building a content site or documentation | Consider Astro instead | Astro ships no JavaScript unless you ask, so you will get a faster site with less machinery. |
| Nobody on the team writes React | Do not choose Next.js | This is a developer framework. A builder is the right tool. |
Vercel licensing costs
Every other Vercel product priced on this site, with the smallest invoice each will accept and the specific questions answered for it.
- Vercel pricing - from $20 a month on Pro
What Next.js costs that no vendor publishes
The table above is every figure somebody will invoice you for. Two costs are not in it, because nobody sells them at a list price:
- A developer. Next.js assumes interactivity: sessions, client state, components that run in the browser. Building and maintaining that is a salary or a day rate, not a plan. We publish no figure for it, because we have no vendor page to read one from.
- The migration you did not plan. The recommended architecture moved from the Pages Router to the App Router, and teams that adopted early relearned data fetching, layouts and caching more than once. The framework is settled now; the episode is the reason to budget maintenance on a codebase you expect to keep for five years.
Where you host it changes what it costs
Next.js is MIT licensed and runs anywhere Node runs, but it is built by Vercel, and incremental static regeneration, image optimisation and edge middleware are smoothest there. Adapters exist for other hosts and they work, with more configuration and occasional gaps.
That matters to the bill in one specific way: Vercel’s Hobby tier is non-commercial by its own pricing FAQ, so a company site starts at $20 per seat a month rather than $0. If the site is mostly pages rather than an application, Astro hosts as static output and the same site runs at $0.
What you pay at renewal
Nothing, for the licence. MIT has no renewal, no seat count and no notice period. The figures that can move are the hosts’ own, which is why each row above carries the page it was read from and the date it was read.
Next.js questions, answered
- What does it cost to run Next.js?
- The Next.js licence is free, so the bill is hosting and whatever else the site needs. Hosting - Vercel is $0 on Hobby, $20 a seat a month on Pro (Hobby is personal and non-commercial per Vercel's own pricing FAQ, so a commercial site starts at Pro. Pro includes 1 TB of bandwidth and 10M requests, then $0.15 per GB), read from Vercel pricing on 20 August 2026. 2 charges are set out in full on this page, each with its own source and date.
Next.js publishes no standalone pricing page, so this opens the product site. Figures here were read on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Next.js. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source . How we research a profile.
Where Next.js appears on this site
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Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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August 2026
- Licence and hosting position re-checked
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Next.js documentation and licence - checked 9 August 2026
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