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.
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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.
They are trying Vercel and host all their low-traffic small business sites under one $20 a month plan.
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.
Spends about 1,000-1,500 dollars a month on Vercel and rates it great, but finds the enterprise sales people naggy and will probably eject once larger.
Still committed to Vercel and loves the platform, but per-seat pricing makes each new hire costly for a small startup.
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.
Hosts all company websites on Vercel Pro for about 20 euros and considers it a good deal.
Has worked on products with 50,000 daily active users on a 20 dollar a month Vercel plan.
Runs a SaaS with 300 users on Vercel and pays only 20 dollars a month with no problem.
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.
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.
Says Vercel works great in their experience, is easy and cheap and has a ton of features.
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.
Pays only about 70 dollars a month on Vercel for around 500,000 monthly users.
Has 6,600 users across staging and production on Vercel for a total bill of 70 dollars.
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.