What is Vercel?
Platform for deploying web applications, agents, and serverless functions with global CDN, edge computing, CI/CD, and AI model gateway capabilities.
Vercel pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier (Hobby). From $20/mo (Pro). Enterprise custom pricing.
Hobby
FreeThe perfect starting place for your web app or personal project. Import your repo, deploy in seconds.
- isr_reads
- 1M/month
- invocations
- 1M/month
- blob_storage
- 1GB/month
- edge_requests
- 1M/month
- fast_data_transfer
- 100GB/month
- provisioned_memory
- 360GB-hrs/month
- Automatic CI/CD
- Web Application Firewall
- Global automated CDN
- Fluid compute
- DDoS Mitigation
- Traffic & performance insights
Pro
Everything you need to build and scale your app. All Hobby features, plus:
- usage_credit
- $20/month
- edge_requests
- 10M/month, then $2/1M
- fast_data_transfer
- 1TB/month, then $0.15/GB
- All Hobby features
- $20 included usage credit
- Advanced spend management
- Team collaboration & free viewer seats
- Faster builds + no queues
- Cold start prevention
Enterprise
Contact salesCritical security, performance, observability, platform SLAs, and support. All Pro features, plus:
- All Pro features
- Guest & Team access controls
- SCIM & Directory Sync
- Managed WAF Rulesets
- Multi-region compute & failover
- 99.99% SLA
- Advanced Support
Add-ons
- Advanced Deployment Protection$150/mo
What Vercel does
The capabilities that matter for paas & hosting, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Git-push auto-deploy
- ✓
- Deploy arbitrary container image
- ✓
- Per-PR preview environments
- ✓
- Build system
- Dockerfile
- Runtime / language breadth
- Multiple languages (Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, FastAPI, etc.)
- Autoscaling
- Scale-to-zero
- Geographic reach
- Global edge
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Bundled managed data services
- ✗
- Built-in global CDN / edge
- ✓
- Custom domains + automatic TLS
- ✓
- Env vars & secrets management
- ✓
- Instant rollbacks
- -
- CLI + deploy API
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Vercel alternatives
Other paas & hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NetlifyPush your ideas to the webmedium · 64%
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- RailwayThe all-in-one intelligent cloud providermedium · 62%
- CoolifySelf-hosting with superpowerslow · 21%
- DokkuThe smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seenlow · 21%
- Platform.shThe cloud application platform humans and AI agents lovemedium · 59%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Vercel, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 30.00 | 2985.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 100 | 22.00 | 2200.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 12.00 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","regions":"global_edge","edge_cdn":true,"runtimes":"Multiple languages (Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, FastAPI, etc.)","autoscaling":"scale_to_zero","cli_and_api":true,"env_secrets":true,"build_system":"dockerfile","git_push_deploy":true,"preview_deploys":true,"container_deploy":true,"managed_databases":false,"custom_domains_tls":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |