Vercel
Vercel is a cloud platform from Vercel Inc., the company that created and maintains Next.js, for building and deploying websites and web apps from a Git repository. It gives every pull request a preview URL and runs server code on Vercel Functions using the Fluid compute model. There is a free Hobby plan for personal, non-commercial use, and the Pro plan costs $20 a month per deploying seat with $20 of monthly usage credit.
Facts checked on against the sources listed at the end of this page.
- Pricing
- FreemiumPaid from $20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit
- Open source
- NoProprietary
- GitHub stars
- 16,456+143 in the last 30 days
- npm downloads a week
- 5.3Mdown 2% on the week before
- Latest release
- @vercel/static…2 months ago
- Releases in 90 days
- 5about 2 a month
A good fit for
- Next.js apps, since Vercel builds and maintains the framework
- Frontend teams that want a preview URL for every pull request
- Personal projects and prototypes on the free Hobby plan
- Sites that mix static pages with server-rendered routes and API functions
Not a good fit for
- Commercial projects on the free plan: Hobby is limited to personal, non-commercial use
- Long-running background processes: functions stop after 300 seconds by default and 800 seconds at most on Pro, outside the 30-minute beta
- Predictable flat bills at high traffic: usage beyond the included credit is billed on demand
- Self-hosting: the platform is proprietary and runs only on Vercel's infrastructure
Vercel pricing
Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial projects. Pro costs $20 a month, which includes one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit; extra deploying seats are $20 a month each, viewer seats are free, and usage beyond the credit is billed on demand. Enterprise pricing is custom.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $0 | One developer, 1 million edge requests, 100 GB fast data transfer, 1 million function invocations and 4 hours of active CPU a month. Personal, non-commercial use only. |
| Pro | $20 a month, plus $20 a month per extra deploying seat | $20 of monthly usage credit, free viewer seats, team collaboration, email support and 6,000 deployments a day. |
| Enterprise | Custom | SCIM and directory sync, managed WAF rulesets, multi-region compute and failover, and a 99.99% SLA. |
Prices in USD, checked on 27 September 2026. Current prices on vercel.com.
Main features
- Git deployments and preview URLs
- Automatic CI/CD from Git with a unique preview URL for every pull request and comments on previews.
- Fluid compute
- Functions share instances across concurrent requests, with a default duration of 300 seconds and up to 800 seconds on Pro.
- Framework support
- Zero-config builds for Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Astro, Remix, TanStack and Vite, with features like incremental static regeneration and image optimization.
- Firewall and DDoS mitigation
- DDoS mitigation is on by default on every plan, and the web application firewall allows up to 40 custom rules on Pro.
- Flat rate CDN on Pro
- Pro includes a CDN capacity tier of 1 million CDN requests and 1 TB of data transfer each month at no extra cost.
- Vercel CLI
- Deploy, roll back, pull environment variables and run the deployment environment locally from the terminal.
About Vercel
Vercel builds and hosts web projects. You connect a Git repository, and Vercel detects the framework, builds the project and deploys it to its global CDN. Each pull request gets its own preview URL, and merging to the production branch deploys the live site.
Server code runs on Vercel Functions. Since 23 April 2025, new projects use Fluid compute by default, which lets one function instance handle several requests at once and bills for active CPU time and provisioned memory. Functions support Node.js, Python, Bun and Rust, among other runtimes.
The company was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 as ZEIT and renamed Vercel in April 2020. Besides hosting, it maintains Next.js, the AI SDK and Turborepo, and makes v0, an AI tool for building websites.
- Made by
- Vercel Inc.
- Launched
- 2015
- Based in
- San Francisco, California
- Free plan
- Yes: Hobby, for personal and non-commercial use, with 100 GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month
- Available on
- Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Astro, Remix, TanStack, Vite, Node.js, Python, Bun and Rust functions
Usage and activity
Weekly npm downloads of vercel, last 12 months.
Recent releases
- @vercel/[email protected]2 months ago
- @vercel/[email protected]2 months ago
- @vercel/[email protected]2 months ago
- @vercel/[email protected]2 months ago
- @vercel/[email protected]2 months ago
Vercel alternatives
Vercel compared
VercelvsNetlify
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VercelvsRailway
Vercel is built by the Next.js team around frontend frameworks and serverless functions, pricing Pro at $20 a month per deploying seat with usage credit included.
Getting started
Sign up at vercel.com and import a Git repository, or install the CLI.
npm i vercelLog in from the terminal.
vercel loginDeploy a preview from your project folder, then deploy to production.
vercel vercel deploy --prod
Questions about Vercel
Is Vercel free?
Yes. The Hobby plan is free for personal, non-commercial projects and includes 100 GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month. Commercial use needs Pro or Enterprise.
How much does Vercel Pro cost?
Pro costs $20 a month, which covers one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit. Extra deploying seats cost $20 a month each, and viewer seats are free.
Is Vercel open source?
No. The hosting platform is proprietary. Vercel does maintain open-source projects such as Next.js, the AI SDK and Turborepo.
What happens if I go over the Hobby limits?
In most cases you have to wait 30 days before you can use the feature again. Hobby has no billing cycle, so there are no overage charges.
What are alternatives to Vercel?
Common alternatives include Netlify, Cloudflare Workers, AWS Amplify Hosting and Render, or self-hosted Coolify.
Sources and links
- Vercel pricing
- Vercel Pro plan, Vercel Docs
- Vercel Hobby plan, Vercel Docs
- Fluid compute, Vercel Docs
- Frameworks on Vercel, Vercel Docs
- Vercel CLI overview, Vercel Docs
- Vercel, Wikipedia
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