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Ran a web app on Vercel and liked the easy GitHub deploys and dashboard, but worried about the bill when junk traffic hit usage-based pricing, and later moved to a rented VPS.

Built a GitHub plus Cloudflare Pages workflow that is straightforward and publishes a site in under 5 minutes at no extra cost per site.

Moved client Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers because Vercel started charging an extra 20 dollars for external project members who want to push code.

Still uses Netlify for all projects because it is simple and just works: connect the repo and DNS, environment variables, deploy stage and automated builds are all easy.

Self-hosts now but says that, having used Vercel, Heroku and AWS before, Vercel was the cheapest option for the value.

Left Vercel because with two developers the per-seat charges plus a separate database made costs crazy for a starting project, versus a Coolify setup at much less.

They moved their static site to Neocities and say it works well, with the custom domain DNS setup going fine.

Moved a simple site with forms and a blog from Wix to Cloudflare in about 4 days and has never been happier.

Moved off Netlify because the new credit system charges 15 credits per deploy and traffic, and the site goes dark when credits run out.

Has used Netlify flawlessly for Angular and Flutter sites on the free tier for a year, paying 20 a month for private repos, though support took about 24 hours on a DNS issue.

They pay about $20 a month for Vercel and stay under the included usage, but disabled overages after one month went over and the bill reached around $70.

They used Vercel in an enterprise setting at roughly $250K a year for 20 million MAUs and about 400 billion requests, and said it was worth the money compared with building the infrastructure themselves.

They were banned from Neocities after complaints about their controversial content. They liked how simple it was to use and still had a ZIP of their HTML/CSS files to move elsewhere.

Business site on Vercel loads fast sometimes but most of the time shows site cannot be reached; calls it the worst host used in 20 years.

After nearly two years on Vercel with a site of many pages, costs hit about 10 dollars a day and they moved to a dedicated VPS at 29 a month.

Finds Vercel’s mandatory phone verification when creating accounts the most annoying part and sometimes uses Cloudflare Pages instead.

A first-time builder says Vercel cost an astronomical amount for just the homepage and moved off it.

Migrated four Vercel Next.js builds to Cloudflare within a day, keeps all builds in one place and says costs are better at scale.

They moved their static sites to Cloudflare Pages after a paid host lapsed, using the free tier with a custom domain and no card required.

Finds the Cloudflare Pages free tier very generous with no commercial restriction, and uses it with Workers for everything now.

Switched from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare Pages and says it has been rock solid.

Hosts a blog, portfolio, photo gallery and a couple of live side products with real users on Cloudflare Pages for a total bill of $0.

Uses Cloudflare Pages for around 5 websites, three of them portfolios, and adds Workers when functions are needed.

Has had a portfolio on the Cloudflare Pages free tier for a while without any issue.

Vercel charges an extra 20 a month per committer on private repos on top of the Pro account, so they cancelled the project and Pro plan.

Chose Cloudflare Pages over Vercel and has had a great experience so far.

Pays 20 a month for Vercel for personal and a wife’s coaching site and says it has been great.

Vercel’s extra per-seat billing was more than their nonprofit could manage so they cancelled.

Has several static sites on Netlify with Svelte, Next and Vue and no issues, and uses its DNS management as well.

Has used Netlify for a client site for nearly three years, great for static sites, with build minutes and serverless limits as the main caveats.

Netlify turned off a site after 300 credits vanished on an idle static site; they paid 9 to restore it and are moving to Cloudflare.

Found deploying Next.js to Cloudflare pretty straightforward, with a really smooth adapter.

Tried deploying Next.js on Cloudflare with OpenNext but hit caching problems and runtime errors.

They switched to Vercel after GitHub Pages failed for their static Next.js export, and it is working there.

They could not get their Next.js image export setup working on GitHub Pages despite trying basePath in config and inline, and gave up and moved to Vercel.

An SSG ecommerce site took 2-3 seconds per page navigation on Netlify but 300-400ms on Cloudflare and Vercel, so they moved to Astro on Cloudflare.

They deployed the same project on Netlify without extra basePath work and it worked straightforwardly.

Runs a professional portfolio built with Astro for free on Cloudflare with a proper domain and stupid fast performance; calls Cloudflare very cheap and powerful below enterprise level.

Rebuilt their site and hosts it free on Cloudflare Pages, paying only about $5 a year for the domain.

Their Next.js site has been painless on Vercel, usually just a git push, and the convenience keeps them there.

They host web games and client landing pages on Vercel with GitHub and Claude, say it works flawlessly after spending thousands on Webflow, and would gladly pay when needed.

They build their portfolio in Webflow, export the code and host it free on Netlify, and say it works perfectly for a static portfolio.

After five years paying Webflow fees they exported their one-page portfolio and now host it free on Cloudflare Pages.

Hosts a one-file game on the Cloudflare Pages free tier with a Worker plus KV leaderboard that has served players in 25 countries.

Deploying a Next.js app to Cloudflare Pages hit many Edge Runtime incompatibility errors that were only solved by moving to Workers.

Their GitHub Pages custom domain site worked for a week, then showed an SSL protocol error for two days. Removing and re-adding the domain and re-enforcing HTTPS did not help.

After traffic hit limits on an open-source app the user upgraded to the 20 dollar plan and still got a surprise 100 dollar add-on bill at month end, then moved to their own VPS.

Their free Netlify account was suspended without notice and support gave no response for over a week.

Could not get a Lovable site migrated to Cloudflare Pages and found its control panel like operating a space station.

Hates it, calling it absolute garbage, and points to endless complaints in the Amplify Discord from people frantically trying to fix their production deploys.

Two years of building a tutoring platform ended in migrating to Supabase because DynamoDB lacked SQL joins and Cognito authentication was a pain.

Has never had any issues with Vercel despite hearing complaints, finding it easy in and out for simple projects.

Had a site on Vercel for a week and found great developer experience but bad invoices.

Runs many small low-traffic projects on Vercel, which is cheap for that and simplifies deployment, moving projects out only if traffic grows a lot.

Uses Vercel because it is easy and friendly for ship-and-test projects, keeping a private VPS for more demanding validated projects.

Hosts all company websites on Vercel Pro for about 20 euros and considers it a good deal.

Has used nothing but Vercel since discovering it, for both Next.js and SvelteKit.

They autodeploy their projects from GitHub to Cloudflare Pages and like the extra features included for free.

They run web apps with multiple users on Vercel and stay well within the free tier; a bug once maxed their function invocation cap, so they started a new account and moved their repo.

They migrated a Next.js app off Vercel and found hosting it elsewhere annoying, taking a few months to set up CI/CD and a VPS.

Netlify took two live sites fully down when deploy credits ran out, could not buy credits on free, and a 2FA failure locked them out of the account.

Upgraded to Netlify Personal at 9 a month but still only gets 1000 credits, which frequent deploys burn through quickly.

Runs 13 apps on Cloudflare for two years, compares it to Vercel at work, and says it is now better, cheaper and running smoothly.

Says Vercel is great and works well with their Next.js setup via GitHub Actions.

At an agency, Netlify’s Image CDN went down for an hour and later the whole system returned 503 or SSL errors for about an hour with the dashboard inaccessible.

Moved from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages for 500 free builds and no server compute, but found concurrent builds need a $20 Pro tier and support did not help.

Has worked on products with 50,000 daily active users on a 20 dollar a month Vercel plan.

Moved from Wix to Netlify with Claude and GitHub so code changes auto-deploy, with DNS the hardest part.

Has 6,600 users across staging and production on Vercel for a total bill of 70 dollars.

Worked on an e-commerce shop on Vercel with about 50,000 orders a month that cost around 10,000 dollars a month, suggesting parts of the backend belonged on AWS.

Was billed about 300 dollars a month on Vercel and cut it to about 100 dollars with a dedicated server, Cloudflare and Coolify.

Their work Vercel Pro plan produced a last bill of around 10,000 dollars, so they are looking for alternatives.

Runs a SaaS with 300 users on Vercel and pays only 20 dollars a month with no problem.

Averages 3,800 unique sessions a day on Vercel while paying 20 dollars a month and expects it can handle more.

Chose Cloudflare Pages after trying multiple services because the free plan is generous, while Netlify got limiting with limited monthly deployments.

Built their site with Porkbun, Cloudflare and GitHub; Netlify ran out of commits so they moved to Cloudflare, which worked really well.

Bought a domain at Porkbun and hosted the page on Cloudflare, finding it a lot faster and more feature rich.

Their agency hosts over 40 sites for about 30 dollars a month and has never been charged an overage.

Deploys several very large projects on Vercel without spending a fortune, paying only for a Pro account to remove the watermark, and calls it the best of the best after trying alternatives.

A traffic spike cost 317 on Vercel Pro; support took about two weeks but gave a root cause analysis, mitigation guidance and a 278 refund.

A colleague deploying 30-plus times a day racked up a 250 dollar Vercel bill for one project in build time alone, so they are moving to a VPS for about 70 dollars a month across several projects.

Runs a big website with thousands of users and many pages on Vercel and finds the cost fair, way cheaper than paying devops to handle Kubernetes scaling.

Used Vercel for years before moving about 50 projects to Cloudflare, calling Vercel overly expensive and charging for things that are nearly unlimited elsewhere.

Auto-deployment on Cloudflare Pages started failing on env-var imports after a UI-only change, forcing manual wrangler builds and deploys.

Finds Vercel works well with many good features and does everything needed on the free plan.

Stays on Vercel because moving off cost far more time in config and builds, though a small project once had higher usage than expected.

Calls Vercel the best because analytics, caching and observability just work and save hours, so paying an extra 50 dollars a month is fine.

Has deployed numerous Next.js apps on Cloudflare Pages on the free tier without running out of usage; compatibility has improved a lot.

Pays about 25 dollars a month on Vercel for 50,000 users plus over two million scraper hits and finds the features useful and simple.

Has ten sites on Vercel and has not passed 5 dollars in spend; calls it unbeatable hosting value for low-traffic sites.

Runs multi-tenant sites on Vercel that barely hit 10 percent of plan limits, very snappy sites and happy clients, though not heavy e-commerce or media sites.

Has paid the same 20 dollars a month to Vercel for over five years, with only about 20 dollars in extra charges in total, and likes it.

Loves Vercel as super easy to set up and maintain, with one catch: the Pro plan opts you into expensive Turbo build machines that you should switch to standard.

Pays 20 dollars a month to Vercel, merges to main and the site deploys, expecting the business model to cover bills as it scales.

Runs a website on the Vercel free plan and it works perfectly fine.

Their company pays over 100,000 dollars a year to Vercel, mostly ISR costs on a frequently changing catalogue site, and feels held hostage because migrating off is costly.

Runs 20 client websites from one multi-tenant Vercel app with tens of thousands of monthly page views and still has not passed the 20 dollar a month limit; cheaper than their old Google Cloud setup.

Likes Vercel for its generous free tier, easy initial deployment and extras like basic observability and DDoS protection; says it is not meant to scale cheaply.

As a solo developer finds Vercel CI/CD, GitHub integration, cron support and rollback a lifesaver compared with maintaining production infrastructure.

Calls Vercel one of the best software products they have come across.

Migrated most Node apps off Vercel to cut cost after their Vercel plan surprisingly doubled in price.

They ran four side projects on Vercel with modest traffic and were hit with a 380 dollar invoice, which they found shocking for projects that earn nothing.

Needing a static IP for security meant a 100 dollar base charge plus extra Vercel Private Data Transfer, and every cache-miss build downloading packages through that IP cost a fortune.

Vercel bill crept up to 300-plus dollars with unchanged API routes and the logs needed another paid subscription to inspect; they migrated off, which was painful but worth it.

An app that has basically not changed started seeing Vercel costs creep up each month from bot and AI traffic plus ISR.

Got a Vercel bill with over 120 dollars of on-demand usage so far in the cycle.

Production deploys on Vercel failed during a Dubai region incident even though the project had nothing in that region, stalling a release.