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Cloudflare vs Vercel

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Vercel

Superb developer experience, from git push to deployed globally in seconds
First class support for Next.js and other frontend frameworks
Great API to issue custom domains for SaaS projects
Very active community and plenty of learning resources

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Vercel
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$151.38 / mo 1440h compute, 50 GB storage, 10 GB read/mo 5 GB write/mo
Managed Redis®*	--	$90.72 / mo 10 req/s @ $0.35 per 100k reqs
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	$108.75 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	--	100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	$150.00 $0.15 / GB (Edge)

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Cloudflare and Vercel offer:

Service	Cloudflare	Vercel
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Load Balancer		--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites

Company details

	Cloudflare	Vercel
Website	cloudflare.com	vercel.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2015
Data Center Locations	285	18
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

	Vercel
Website	vercel.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2015
Data Center Locations	18
Example Customers	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post