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.
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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 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.
Runs a fairly complex marketing site with hundreds of pages and millions of monthly visitors on Vercel Pro for about 200 dollars a month.
Uses Vercel with no issues for Next.js apps with millions of views a month; January cost about 220 dollars, with the main cost being edge requests, and it was pricier in early 2024.
Has worked on products with 50,000 daily active users on a 20 dollar a month Vercel plan.
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.
Pays only about 70 dollars a month on Vercel for around 500,000 monthly users.
Uses Vercel for a Next.js frontend with around 800,000 page views a month without issues, with Cloudflare for DDoS protection and R2.
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.
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.
A site with 1.5 million-plus monthly users on Vercel Pro with 5 seats costs around 200 euros after moving images and fonts to S3 and CloudFront, using middleware and edge functions.
Runs about 20 low-traffic apps on Vercel for no more than 20 dollars a month.
At a company of about 500 employees and a couple million users, they heavily use Vercel for intense traffic and even as an API host, and can negotiate better deals at that scale.
Has used Vercel for two years with 10-15k daily visitors and auth and never goes over the allowance.
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.