Next.js hosting cost is one of those things that looks simple until your first invoice arrives. This post puts a realistic monthly number on five categories of host for the same mid-traffic site: ~80 k page views/month, ~4 GB egress, ISR on ~200 routes, and next/image serving ~300 k image transforms/month. No free-tier demos — actual production numbers as of August 2026.
The reference site I'm pricing against
Before comparing, here's what I'm assuming so the numbers are comparable:
Next.js 15 App Router, Sanity CMS backend
~80 k page views/month, peak ~500 concurrent
