Cloudways vs Vercel

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

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	1-12 TB / mo	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	Vercel
Website	www.cloudways.com	vercel.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012	2015
Data Center Locations	--	18
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

	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