GCP vs Vercel

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

What's good about...

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

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 Google Cloud's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration	Google Cloud	Vercel
VM Small	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)	--
VM Medium	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	--
VM Large	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	--
Block Storage	$4.10 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	$24.93 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$29.44 / mo	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	$151.38 / mo 1440h compute, 50 GB storage, 10 GB read/mo 5 GB write/mo
Managed Redis®*	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)	$90.72 / mo 10 req/s @ $0.35 per 100k reqs
Serverless 25M Executions	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration	$108.75 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	Depends on service	100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)	$150.00 $0.15 / GB (Edge)

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71	Source
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85	Source
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00	Source
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15	Source
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73	Source
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00	Source
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67	Source
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00	Source
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35	Source
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00	Source
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69	Source
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39	Source
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74	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 Google Cloud and Vercel offer:

Service	Google Cloud	Vercel
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers		--
Load Balancer		--
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Google Cloud	Vercel
Website	cloud.google.com	vercel.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2015
Data Center Locations	40	18
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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