Next.js hosting: OneBit vs Vercel

Vercel builds Next.js. We do not. Anyone comparing the two who skips that sentence is selling you something.

What follows is where each one wins, checked against both companies' own published pages on 9 September 2026.

Where Vercel is better, and it is not close

They ship the framework. Next.js features land on Vercel first, because the team that writes Next.js works there. If you need the newest rendering or caching behaviour the week it is released, that is where it will work first.

Edge and global routing. Vercel serves from a global network. We serve from one region.

Preview deployments per pull request. A URL for every branch, automatically.

If your project depends on any of those three, stop reading — the rest of this is about a different trade.

What the trade actually is

Vercel's plans are Hobby, Pro at $20/month with $20 of included usage credit, and Enterprise at a custom price (vercel.com/pricing, 9 September 2026). Those numbers are in US dollars, on a US checkout.

From Nigeria that is where the friction starts, and it is not a Vercel fault — it is your bank. A naira card either gets declined on an international charge or goes through at your bank's FX rate plus a markup, so the $20 you agreed to is not the amount that leaves your account. The failure mode that hurts most is not the first payment; it is the renewal that fails while the app is in production. Pay for Vercel, Render or Railway goes through the options in detail.

OneBit Deploy is priced and charged in naira through Paystack: Free at ₦0, Hobby at ₦30,000/month, Enterprise at ₦89,000/month, with Nigerian VAT of 7.5% added at checkout. There is no conversion step, so the number you agreed to is the number you are charged.

What you keep

A Next.js app moves without a rewrite. It is still next build and next start; the platform builds a container image and runs it. Builds and frameworks covers detection and overrides. The one thing worth checking is the start script, which should honour the port the platform provides:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start -p $PORT"
  }
}

Environment variables move as values, not as files. Copy them into the app's Environment tab (Bulk add (.env) takes a whole .env) and press Redeploy to build with them — a missing NEXT_PUBLIC_ variable fails at build time, not at runtime, which is a confusing first failure if you are not expecting it. See environment variables and secrets.

If your app uses a database, managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB are available on paid plans with a connection string ready to paste — managed databases.

What you give up

Said plainly, because you will find out anyway:

A single region. No edge network, no geo-routing, no failover to another region.
Node.js, Next.js, Python (early access) and static sites. Go and PHP are not available yet.
Free apps sleep when idle and wake on the next request. Paid plans stay warm.
No automated managed backups. Rollback is one step back (Go back to the previous version); Rebuild puts an older commit back online.

All of it is in limits, which exists so you can check these claims rather than take our word for them.

The honest recommendation

If your users are mostly in Nigeria, your app is a normal Next.js app, and the monthly bill being in naira is worth more to you than an edge network, this is a straightforward move. If you are serving a global audience, or you live on the newest Next.js features, stay where you are — and come back when that changes.