Cheapest Next.js Hosting 2026
The cheapest way to host Next.js in 2026 is Temps Community: free to self-host on any VPS, with git-push deployments, automatic SSL, analytics, error tracking, session replay, and uptime monitoring included at no extra cost, no per-seat fees, and no bandwidth charges. It replaces Vercel, PostHog, FullStory, Sentry, and Pingdom in a single Rust binary.
Cheapest Next.js Hosting Options Compared (2026)
| Platform | Monthly cost | SSR Next.js | Analytics included | Error tracking included | Session replay included | No per-seat fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temps Community (self-hosted) | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloudflare Pages | See Cloudflare pricing page | Static exports only (SSR requires Workers + OpenNext) | No | No | No | Yes |
| Cloudflare Workers (with OpenNext) | See Cloudflare pricing page | Yes (via OpenNext adapter) | No | No | No | Yes (pay-per-request) |
Self-hosted deploy tools stop at deploy
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temps
One self-hosted Rust binary replaces your deployment platform, analytics, error tracking, session replay, uptime monitoring, transactional email and AI sandboxes — no per-seat pricing, no usage bills.
All your projects, visitors, and status in one place.
Architecture
One engine at the center of everything
Visitors, your team, and AI agents all reach the same engine — it deploys your apps, manages services, tracks analytics, connects integrations, and watches everything running, all at once.
Applications
- Your deployed projects
Provisioned services
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- MongoDB
- Redis
- RustFS
Analytics
- Visitor analytics
- Custom events
- Session replay
- Funnel analysis
Integrations
- AWS S3
- Scaleway
- SMTP
- Sentry-compatible
Observability
- OpenTelemetry
- Log history
Monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- Web Vitals
Diagram of the Temps architecture. Visitors, your team, and AI agents all reach the Temps engine — through the proxy, the console, or the API directly. From there, the engine deploys your applications, manages provisioned services (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, or RustFS, its own self-hosted S3-compatible object storage), tracks visitor analytics, custom events, session replay, and funnel analysis, connects to external integrations (AWS S3 or Scaleway object storage, SMTP email with click and open tracking, Sentry-compatible error ingestion), ingests OpenTelemetry observability data with compressed log history, and continuously monitors uptime and Web Vitals for every project.
Access
Visitors, your team, and AI agents all reach the same engine — through the proxy, the console, or the API directly.
Applications
The engine builds, versions, and routes your deployed projects — the same path every push takes.
Services
It manages PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, or RustFS — Temps' own self-hosted, S3-compatible object storage — provisioned straight from the dashboard.
Analytics
It tracks visitor analytics, custom events, session replay, and funnels — all stored on your own infrastructure, no PostHog or Plausible required.
Integrations
It connects to AWS S3 or Scaleway for object storage, sends transactional email over SMTP with click and open tracking, and accepts errors through a Sentry-compatible endpoint.
Observability
It ingests OpenTelemetry traces, logs, and metrics into Postgres or ClickHouse, keeping log history compressed so retention doesn't get expensive.
Monitoring
It checks every project for uptime continuously and tracks real-user Web Vitals per page — so you know before a user has to tell you.
Visitors, your team, and AI agents all reach the same engine — through the proxy, the console, or the API directly.
Where it runs
Self-hosted, on a server you already own.
Run the whole platform on any Linux box — a VPS, bare metal, or your homelab. One binary, nothing to license, nothing metered.
- Apache 2.0 / MIT dual-licensed, free forever
- Any VPS — Hetzner, DigitalOcean, bare metal, or your own hardware
- No usage-based billing, ever
- Plain Docker containers and Postgres underneath — no proprietary format to migrate off of
For teams considering Temps
See if a free migration audit makes sense for your team.
The biggest reason teams don't switch isn't price — it's migration risk. For teams paying $750+/mo on cloud + developer SaaS, we run a free 30-minute call to map every line of your bill to a Temps equivalent and sketch the path. Answer three quick questions to see if it's a fit.
- 01
Audit your current stack.
Walk us through Vercel, Sentry, LogRocket, Datadog, your databases — whatever you're paying for. We map every line of your bill to a Temps equivalent.
- 02
Get a real number back.
You leave the call with an exact monthly savings figure for your team size, traffic, and feature usage. No 'starting from' marketing math — your actual line items.
- 03
Get a migration plan.
We sketch the path: which service moves first, where DNS cuts over, how to dual-run during the swap, and what data you can keep. Yours to take, even if you self-host and never speak to us again.
This call is for you if…
- You're a team paying $750+/mo across cloud + developer SaaS.
- You've already eyed self-hosted alternatives but stalled on migration risk.
- You want predictable infrastructure costs as the team grows next year.
- You need someone to look at your specific stack — not generic docs.
Potential savings
Three quick questions to see your number.
How many developers will use Temps?
Tap one to continue — your number unlocks on the next screen.
No adjectives
Here's what's actually different
Not a nicer dashboard. Categories most self-hosted deploy tools don't have at all.
Everyone sees everything in one place.
Deployments, error tracking, analytics, and monitoring all in one dashboard your whole team can access. No more 'did you check Sentry?' or 'who has the Datadog login?'
Deploy from any branch, any framework, any developer.
Git push from any team member triggers a build. Preview URLs for every pull request. Zero-downtime rollouts. Auto-detects your stack — no DevOps knowledge required.
Know about errors before your users report them.
Full error tracking with stack traces and source maps. Sentry-compatible — existing integrations keep working. Instant alerts to your team's Slack or Discord when something breaks.
See how real users move through your product.
Built-in analytics and session replay. No third-party scripts, no cookie compliance headaches, no data leaving your servers. Your users' behaviour stays on your infrastructure.
Databases your team can provision in minutes.
PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB — all managed through the same dashboard. No separate AWS RDS setup, no egress fees, no DBAs required for basic provisioning.
One bill that doesn't grow with the team.
Add a developer, ship a feature, scale traffic — your Temps bill stays exactly where it was. No per-seat charges, no event-based pricing, no surprise overages at month-end.
The honest math
A deploy tool isn't a platform. Count what you're actually running.
Deploying self-hosted usually means running:
- A deploy tool
- A self-hosted error tracker (Sentry, GlitchTip)
- An OpenTelemetry backend (Grafana, SigNoz)
- An uptime monitor (Uptime Kuma, Gatus)
- A self-hosted analytics tool (Plausible, Umami)
With Temps:
- Deploy, errors, tracing, uptime, analytics, AI sandbox
Uncheck what you don't run — the count updates. Either way, ours stays at one.
Fair comparison
Where Temps is genuinely different
Git-push deploys, TLS, basic databases, backups — every tool here has those, so they're not on this list. What's below is where the choice actually changes what you can do.
| A typical self-hosted deploy tool | A typical cloud platform | Temps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Errors, before your users report them | Not included. Bolt on Sentry or GlitchTip and wire up a separate DSN. | Not included. Same story — a third-party service and a separate bill. | Sentry-compatible error tracking, built in. Existing SDKs keep working, no new account. |
| Where requests actually go slow | Not included, or a manual Grafana/Prometheus stack you assemble yourself. | Basic request logs on most plans; full tracing usually costs extra. | OpenTelemetry tracing with zero manual instrumentation to enable it. |
| Handing an error to an agent that can fix it | Not a thing these tools do — you paste the stack trace into a chat window yourself. | Not a thing these tools do either. | An AI agent sandbox reads the same telemetry every other feature already collects. |
| Debugging skills the agent already knows | None — whatever debugging workflow you build is on you. | None. | AI skills for common failure classes, ready without extra setup. |
| Managed databases | Partial — you often still run Postgres/Redis yourself alongside it. | Managed databases are usually available, at their own separate price. | PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB provisioned through the same dashboard. |
| Where your users' behavioral data lives | Stays on your infrastructure — this part they get right. | Leaves your infrastructure and sits on someone else's servers. | Stays on your infrastructure. Analytics and session replay ship with the platform. |
| What happens when the team grows | No per-seat charge — the tool itself doesn't meter your headcount. | Per-seat pricing is standard; adding a developer raises the bill. | No per-seat charge. Add developers and ship features without the bill moving. |
Errors, before your users report them
Where requests actually go slow
Handing an error to an agent that can fix it
Debugging skills the agent already knows
Managed databases
Where your users' behavioral data lives
What happens when the team grows
Compared against typical feature sets, not any specific product — a dash means the row genuinely doesn't apply or the tool matches Temps here; we'd rather show that than invent a cross. For named, version-specific comparisons, see the detailed comparisons.
Production ready
The same infrastructure your team already trusts.
Temps is built on the same components that power the products your team uses every day. MIT or Apache 2.0 dual-licensed, fully auditable, never a black box.
- Runs on
- Linux, macOS for local dev, any Docker host
- Telemetry
- Off by default, opt-in if you want to help improve the platform
- Lock-in
- Plain containers and Postgres underneath — leave any day
- PingoraCloudflare's production proxy. Handles 1 trillion+ requests per day.
- OpenTelemetryError-tracking standard backed by Google, Microsoft, and AWS.
- TimescaleDBAnalytics database used by Fortune 500s for real-time data at scale.
- NixpacksRailway's open-source buildpack system. Battle-tested by thousands of teams.
- rrwebSession replay engine with 17,000+ GitHub stars. Used by PostHog and Highlight.
Built for you, and the agent debugging your code
Not a chat window bolted onto a dashboard. An agent that can actually see what broke.
Ask questions about a latency spike and get answers pulled from your own traces, metrics, and revenue data. Hand an error straight to an agent sandboxed against your actual codebase, reading the same telemetry every other feature already collects.
Get set up
One binary. Every feature. Nothing bolted on.
30 seconds to install. Or book the free 30-minute migration audit and we'll plan the move with you.
Free to self-host · Open source · No per-seat fees