Available worldwide
What is Vercel Edge Runtime?
Global CDN and edge platform optimized for dynamic and static content delivery with built-in security, performance optimization, and framework-aware caching.
Vercel Edge Runtime 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 (Hobby). Pro $20/month + $20 credit. Usage-based: $2/1M edge requests, $0.15/GB data transfer, $0.128/hr compute. Enterprise custom with 99.99% SLA.
Hobby
FreeThe perfect starting place for your web app or personal project
- isr_reads
- 1M/month
- active_cpu
- 4 hours/month
- isr_writes
- 200k/month
- invocations
- 1M/month
- ip_blocking
- 3
- blob_storage
- 1GB/month
- data_transfer
- 100GB/month
- edge_requests
- 1M/month
- rate_limiting
- 1M allowed requests/month
- firewall_rules
- 3
- edge_config_reads
- 100k/month
- image_cache_reads
- 300k/month
- blob_data_transfer
- 10GB/month
- edge_config_writes
- 100/month
- image_cache_writes
- 100k/month
- provisioned_memory
- 360 GB-hrs/month
- image_transformations
- 5k/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
- ip_blocking
- 100
- data_transfer
- 1TB/month
- edge_requests
- 10M/month
- firewall_rules
- 40
- All Hobby features
- $20 of 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
- 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 Edge Runtime does
The capabilities that matter for serverless & edge platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Execution substrate
- -
- Language / runtime breadth
- -
- Runs at global edge PoPs
- ✓
- Scale to zero
- ✓
- Cold-start profile
- Provisioned concurrency
- Max execution duration
- -
- Event source breadth
- -
- HTTP endpoint trigger
- ✓
- Cron / scheduled invocations
- -
- Durable state / workflow primitive
- -
- Bring-your-own runtime / container
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
- ✓
- CLI + IaC / framework support
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Neon
Vercel Edge Runtime alternatives
Other serverless & edge platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Vercel FunctionsRun server-side code without managing serverslow · 49%
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- Cloudflare WorkersDeploy serverless functions globally in secondslow · 30%
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- FissionOpen Source Kubernetes-native Serverless Frameworklow · 24%
- Fastly Computelow · 37%
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 Edge Runtime, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 0.17 | 17.4 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 100 | 0.13 | 12.9 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 76 | 0.15 | 11.6 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.07 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.07 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 0.05 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 56 | 0.03 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 0.09 | 0.8 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 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.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-07-31 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","cold_start":"provisioned","cli_and_iac":true,"http_trigger":true,"scale_to_zero":true,"edge_distributed":true,"observability_builtin":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-07-31 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | mediumsource · 2026-07-31 · 67% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |