Fal.ai vs Vercel

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

What's good about...

Fal.ai

Optimized for fast inference, especially for generative media
Cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model
Offers both serverless GPU instances

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 Fal.ai's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration	Fal.ai	Vercel
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	--	$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	--	$150.00 $0.15 / GB (Edge)

Fal.ai uses a usage-based pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the compute you consume. It offers two main structures:

GPU Pricing: Billed per second for deploying custom applications on their GPU fleet.
Output-Based Pricing: For models hosted by Fal.ai, billing is based on the output generated, such as per image, per megapixel, or per second of video.

Fal.ai GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	--	--	$0.60	Source
A100	1x A100	40GB	--	--	$0.99	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	--	--	$1.89	Source
H200	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
B200	1x B200	184GB	--	--	On Request	Source

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 Fal.ai and Vercel offer:

Service	Fal.ai	Vercel
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
GPU-powered Servers		--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage	--
Serverless Cron Jobs	--
Serverless Functions	--
Static Sites	--

Company details

	Fal.ai	Vercel
Website	fal.ai	vercel.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021	2015
Data Center Locations	--	18
Example Customers	PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

	Fal.ai
Website	fal.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra

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