Vercel Reviews

Static & frontend hosting

198 reviews
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.

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Customers praise how easy it is to deploy, especially Next.js, and many pay little for small or moderate sites.

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

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.

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.

Migrating 23 projects from Netlify, which became greedy, to Vercel, which feels much more mature with many more features.

Runs a fairly complex marketing site with hundreds of pages and millions of monthly visitors on Vercel Pro for about 200 dollars a month.

Finds Vercel plenty competitive on pricing for what it offers and has never had cost be the bottleneck while scaling a startup.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Finds Vercel at 20 dollars a month very reasonable for maintenance-free scaling, one-click deployment and git integration for most projects.

Runs a startup with multiple users and decent scale on Vercel for about 150 dollars a month infrastructure plus 120 for v0 seats.

Happy they went deeper into Vercel: image optimisation got cheaper, fluid compute saves money, builds are cheaper and web analytics pricing dropped.

Sticks with Vercel managed infrastructure instead of paying a senior DevOps engineer, running a 10-person startup and even looking forward to a larger enterprise deal.

Runs about 30 Next.js sites for small businesses and finds Vercel cheaper than Netlify at that size, since Netlify pushes you to higher per-site function tiers.

Converting semi-large 200,000-plus monthly visitor sites to a headless React CMS on Vercel with SSG, expecting to pay next to nothing versus over 1,200 dollars a month for a robust WordPress setup.

Recently launched a site on Vercel with real visitors and says costs are not much to worry about; does not see moving elsewhere, though they hit the 2.5k analytics event limit.

Runs two popular label websites and several high-sales ecommerce sites on Vercel for 20 dollars a month; the most extra paid was 1.20 dollars for 2 million function invocations, by using ISR and avoiding next/image.

At about 100k page views a month with middleware and dynamic data pays 20 dollars for a Pro seat plus 17 for Speed Insights, and says it saves hours of time.

A SvelteKit project on Vercel for work gets 50k intermittent hits and costs only the 20 dollar Pro plan, with Supabase on the backend.

Runs a huge website on Vercel for only 20 dollars a month by avoiding middleware on every route and using tagged ISR.

Common questions about Vercel

What do customers say about Vercel?

Customers praise how easy it is to deploy, especially Next.js, and many pay little for small or moderate sites. The main complaint is unexpected bills from traffic spikes, bots, image optimisation or edge requests, sometimes hundreds or thousands of dollars, with mixed results getting them reduced. Per-seat costs also sting small teams.

Is Vercel worth it?

Of the 138 reviews with a clear verdict, 51% are positive, 11% mixed and 38% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is surprise bill.

What do people like about Vercel?

The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (40 reviews), great value (31 reviews) and good free plan (13 reviews). For example: Their Next.js site has been painless on Vercel, usually just a git push, and the convenience keeps them there.

What are the most common complaints about Vercel?

The complaints reviewers mention most: surprise bill (39 reviews), hidden fees (14 reviews) and upsells (8 reviews). For example: Their work Vercel Pro plan produced a last bill of around 10,000 dollars, so they are looking for alternatives.

What does the signal score of 75 mean?

It's how well reviewed Vercel is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.

What are the specs of Vercel?

Category: Static & frontend hosting. Free plan: Yes.

Where do these Vercel reviews come from?

197 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. 1 was written by customers here. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.

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