What's good about...

Cloudways logo Cloudways

  • Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
  • Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
  • Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups

Cloudways logo 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 Cloudways's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration Cloudways Vercel
VM Small $11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) --
VM Medium $88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) --
VM Large $149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) --
Managed PostgreSQL -- $151.38 / mo 1440h compute, 50 GB storage, 10 GB read/mo 5 GB write/mo
Managed Redis®* Included depending on plan $90.72 / mo 10 req/s @ $0.35 per 100k reqs
Serverless 25M Executions -- $108.75 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider) $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 managed services that Cloudways and Vercel offer:

Service Cloudways Vercel
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Cloudways
Website www.cloudways.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2012
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko
Vercel
Website vercel.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2015
Data Center Locations 18
Example Customers Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on May 5, 2025, and for Vercel on May 6, 2025.