Comparison

bext Cloud vs. hosted platforms

How bext Cloud compares to the leading hosted platform on the things that actually move the bill at the end of the month.

Area
bext Cloud
Leading hosted platform
Bandwidth pricing
Pooled across your team. Overages billed at a flat per-million rate, capped at 2x your tier unless you raise the ceiling.
Per-project quotas with steep overage rates. Multi-region traffic counted separately.
Function invocation limits
No per-invocation pricing — long-running SSR, streaming, background workers run on the same instance you're paying for.
Per-invocation billing with cold-start penalties. Long-running workloads need a separate product.
Build minutes
Not metered. Builds run on shared CI without a clock tax.
Build minutes capped per tier; overage is billed and surprise-friendly.
Regions
You pick where you deploy. Add a target in any region (or any provider) — the dashboard treats them identically.
Fixed managed regions. Bring-your-own region only on enterprise tiers.
Lock-in
Open architecture. Self-hosted mode is free and uses the same CLI, config, and dashboard. Migrate off in an afternoon.
Proprietary primitives (ISR, image opt, KV) tie you to the platform. Migration is a project, not a checkbox.
Observability access
Full logs, metrics, and traces included on every tier. Your data is exportable, no log-volume tiers.
Recent-window logs only on lower tiers; detailed analytics gated behind enterprise upsell.
Multi-provider deploy
First-class. One project can target your bare-metal box, a European VPS, and our managed cloud — pick per environment.
Single managed cloud. No path to self-host without leaving the product.
Framework support
Next.js, React, Hono, Express, Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, plain PHP, static. Same deploy flow for all.
Optimised for one ecosystem. Everything else is a workaround.

Numbers and benchmark methodology live on bext.dev/benchmarks.

When NOT to switch

We're not for everyone. Stay where you are if any of these are true.

You're deeply invested in a single proprietary primitive (edge KV, edge image opt, edge cron) and rewriting away from it isn't worth your time.
Your only constraint is 'one click from a git provider' and you don't care about cost or lock-in.
You need a managed CDN with hundreds of POPs out of the box — bext routes via your provider's edge, not a custom edge network.

See it on your own project.

Start free, point bext at your repo, deploy in under a minute.

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