Vercel 🇺🇸

Vercel is a cloud platform focused on frontend development. It was originally founded in 2015 as ZEIT by Guillermo Rauch, with the aim of making it easy for frontend developers to launch a web app without worrying about infrastructure.

What makes it stand out is its focus on developer experience and performance. You can hook up a Git repo and quickly get a global CDN distribution, free SSL, serverless functions, and automated deploys.

Example customers include Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post. More here.

• 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

Vercel offers a mixed billing model: you subscribe to a specific plan and then pay for any resources you consume each month.

There are three plans available, including a free tier available which is generous enough to host smaller projects:

• Hobby: $0/mo
• Pro: $20/user/mo
• Enterprise: custom pricing

In addition to that, you pay for the resources you consume each month (eg. bandwidth, serverless functions, image optimizations).

Below are some example configurations and their estimated costs:

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. You can find Vercel's latest pricing here.

Based on our records, Vercel has 18 data center locations:

Alternatives to Vercel

Amazon Web Services🇺🇸

AWS is a good alternative to Vercel if you're looking for a cloud provider that offers a wider range of services, relatively more affordable prices, and don't mind having to hook up your own infrastructure components.



Render🇺🇸

Render is a good alternative to Vercel if you want to host your backend within the same cloud provider, while still having a streamlined deployment experience.



Netlify🇺🇸

Netlify offers a similar platform as Vercel, plus various managed services for identity and form submissions.



Flightcontrol🇺🇸

Flightcontrol gives you the developer experience of a platform like Vercel but it runs alongside your AWS account - so you can save on compute and directly access to everything AWS has to offer.



Cloudflare🇺🇸

Cloudflare Pages is a good alternative to Vercel if you're already on their platform and are looking to host a static site.



Fly.io🇺🇸

Consider Fly.io if you're looking to deploy container-based apps closer to your users.