Used Vercel 2-3 years for several client projects on the free tier without paying anything, running complex Next.js and Vite apps with firewall and bot controls built in.
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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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Customer reviews (198)
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Has run a small business site on the Vercel Hobby plan for over two years with about 60 visitors a day and no ban.
Says the Vercel free plan already offers speed insights, analytics and DDoS protection and works wonderfully with GitHub.
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.
Finds Vercel works well with many good features and does everything needed on the free plan.
Runs a website on the Vercel free plan and it works perfectly fine.
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.
Uses Vercel hobby for dozens of projects, has never hit limits or been banned, and finds them friendly to free users.
Runs several Express apps and Hono APIs on the Vercel free tier and stays under its limits.
Uses Vercel for a large production front end with no issues and for proofs of concept, with free tier, custom domain and GitHub auto-deploy all easy.
Happy with Vercel for now because it lets them host React sites easily and for free.
A developer hosts their site on Vercel's free tier with their own custom domain.
Hosts all hobby services on Vercel because the free tier costs nothing, and would likely stay as projects grow because it is easier.
Stays within Vercel Pro on sites with 10,000-plus daily users by caching on Vercel and Cloudflare and disabling prefetching; finds even cached requests billed and the price outrageous, but the free and pro plans generous if you optimise.
A portfolio demo hosted on Vercel free tier went over the data transfer limit and was paused with a 402 payment required until the next month.
Got a Next.js app deployed on the Vercel hobby plan in about ten minutes from start to finish.
A developer hosts a few projects on Vercel for free, noting some vendor lock-in.
They host their Next.js project on Vercel and found deployment easy. They like the free hobby tier, CI/CD and built-in basic analytics.
They had a great experience on Vercel's free tier for personal Next.js projects.
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.