Vercel vs KapsuleHost
Vercel publish a Pro plan at USD$20/mo base, and what you pay on top of that depends on how much your site gets used. Orbit Liftoff is US$12/mo in your own currency, with build minutes and bandwidth included. Go past what is included and we bill the difference at rates published in your own currency, never past the spending ceiling your project already carries. And at that ceiling we stop the next build, never the site that is already serving.
Dev platform
Vercel
Pro
Entry price
USD$20/mo base
Renewal: Varies with how much the site is used
As published 2026-09-02
3-year cost: Varies with use
KapsuleHost
Orbit Liftoff
Match for Vercel
Entry price
US$12/mo
Renewal: US$12/mo (locked, clause 7.5)
3-year cost: US$432
See the year by year cost
The cost math
What you actually pay, year by year.
Ours is read live from our catalogue, in your own currency. Theirs is what they publish, in theirs. Each figure stands exactly as its own company prints it.
Vercel, as published
Vercel's own published rates, read 2026-09-02, in the currency they publish in.
Vercel 3-year cost
Varies with use
KapsuleHost, live
In your own currency, read from our catalogue as this page loaded.
KapsuleHost 3-year cost
US$432
Vercel charge for how much your site is used
The figures above are the plan price Vercel publish, and what you pay on top of it moves with how much your site gets used. Ours is the plan price plus whatever you use past what the plan includes, at rates published in your own currency, and it stops at a spending ceiling that is set from your first day.
The Vercel figures are their own published prices, read on 2026-09-02, in the currency they publish in. Check their current rate before you sign up. Our figures come from our catalogue in your own currency as this page loaded, and clause 7.5 of our Terms guarantees your renewal price is the price you signed up at.
Scorecard
Five things you get by moving from Vercel.
Every one of these is on your plan from the day you arrive, and clause 7.5 of our Terms holds the price you signed up at for as long as your subscription runs.
Your worst month is a number you set
Orbit Liftoff includes build minutes and bandwidth every month. Past that we bill the difference at rates published in your own currency, and every project carries a spending ceiling from its first day, so the usage line on your invoice can never go past it. Crawler and attack traffic we can identify comes off the bill before your allowance is counted.
A spending cap that never takes your site down
Put a cap on the project in KPanel and we hold you to it. When the project reaches it we stop the next build and deploy, and the version already serving keeps serving. Vercel spend management pauses the production deployment, and their own documentation says visitors then see a 503 error until each project is resumed by hand.
Push to deploy, the way you already work
Push to your main branch and we build and publish it. Every branch gets its own preview address to share, and your settings and secrets live in the panel.
One price, with the tax shown
You are billed in your own currency, with any sales tax itemised on the invoice, so the number on the plan card is the number you can plan around.
We move you here for free
The tools bring your site, your database, your mailboxes and your DNS across on every plan, at any size, and Kora runs them with you while you watch. For a bigger or more delicate move, one of our engineers does the whole thing for a published price.
Spec sheet
What comes with your plan.
This is what the plan price buys, line by line. Your own domain and a free SSL certificate for it, mailboxes on your own domain, and a copy of your settings and secrets taken every night and kept thirty nights, all come with Orbit Liftoff.
Moving over
We move you here from Vercel, free.
Moving from Vercel to Orbit is free. Point Orbit at your repository, bring your settings across, run one test deploy, then switch your DNS outside business hours. Anything that only exists on their platform is identified before you move. Kora will run it with you, and for a complicated or sensitive move a person can do the whole thing for a published price.
Q + A
What buyers ask us about Vercel.
These are the questions buyers send us while they are deciding between Vercel and us, answered the way one of our own engineers would answer them on the phone.
What does Vercel actually cost on a busy site?
It moves with the traffic, which is the point: their plan price is where the invoice starts. On Orbit Liftoff at US$12/mo a busy month can add one usage line, billed at rates published in your own currency and stopped at the spending ceiling your project already carries. So the busiest month you ever have costs the plan price plus a number you set yourself, and your site keeps serving through all of it.
Will my Next.js app run the same on Orbit?
A standard Next.js app runs exactly the same. For the handful of features that exist only on their platform we identify each one and tell you what it maps to here, before you move.
What about preview deployments?
Push a branch and you get its own address to share, with its own database if you use ours. Builds are included, however many you run.
Can I use my own database?
Yes. Point Orbit at whatever you already use, or buy a managed one from us separately. Where your data lives does not change what your traffic costs, so keep it wherever it suits you.
Ready?
Start on Orbit Liftoff.
US$12/mo, held at that price for as long as your subscription runs. Your own domain, a free SSL certificate, mailboxes on your own domain and thirty nights of nightly copies of your settings are all included, and we move you here from Vercel for free.