About Vercel
Overview
Vercel is an agentic infrastructure platform for shipping web applications, AI agents, and marketing sites. It provides sandboxed VMs, durable backends, and access to hundreds of AI models through a single gateway.
The platform is built for coding agents to deploy in their native language using Vercel's API, CLI, MCP, and Skills. It also serves platform engineers and design engineers who need global delivery, serverless functions, and security features like a web application firewall.
Key Benefits
- Ship apps that scale from zero to millions of users instantly with Fluid Compute.
- Autonomous agents can investigate errors, plan fixes, and open PRs without manual intervention.
- Zapier serves over 100 million monthly website visits on Vercel.
- Notion powers millions of agent conversations daily on Vercel.
- Mintlify powers documentation for 20,000+ companies on Vercel.
- Deploy in seconds by importing a repo with automatic CI/CD built in.
How It Works
You import your repository from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, and Vercel automatically deploys your project with CI/CD, a global CDN, and a web application firewall. For agentic workloads, you use the AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, or Workflows to build durable backends and sandboxed environments. Coding agents deploy using Vercel's API, CLI, MCP, and Skills — they autonomously investigate errors, plan fixes, and open pull requests.
Use Cases
- Platform engineers deploy serverless functions and manage multi-tenant infrastructure with tenant isolation and custom SSL certificates.
- Design engineers preview and iterate on marketing sites and web apps with instant rollback and preview URLs.
- AI agent developers build durable agent backends using the AI SDK, AI Gateway, and Workflows with sandboxed VMs.
- E-commerce teams host storefronts that scale from zero to millions of visits with Fluid Compute and global CDN.
- Enterprise teams manage team access controls, SCIM directory sync, and managed WAF rulesets with a 99.99% SLA.
- Startups ship fast with a free Hobby tier, automatic CI/CD, and one-click deployment from any Git provider.
Why Choose This Product
Vercel is best suited for developers and teams building web applications, AI agents, and marketing sites who want infrastructure that handles global scaling automatically. The free Hobby tier is ideal for personal projects, while Pro and Enterprise tiers add team collaboration, advanced security, and SLAs for production workloads.
Vercel Pros & Cons
Strengths
- Free Hobby tier with no time limit
- Global CDN with automatic HTTPS and DDoS mitigation
- Supports AI agent deployment via API, CLI, MCP, and Skills
- Fluid Compute scales from zero to millions instantly
- SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance available
Limitations
- Free tier has limited usage credits and build minutes
- Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales
- Some features like Observability Plus are paid add-ons
Vercel integrates with
GGitHub
GGitLab
BBitbucket
SSlack
NNotion
ZZapier
MMintlify
NNext.js
NNuxt
SSvelteKit
NNitro
TTurborepo
Key Features
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AI SDK
Build durable AI agents with a framework that supports hundreds of models through a single SDK.
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AI Gateway
Route, monitor, and manage AI model inference with observability, load balancing, and automatic retries.
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Vercel Sandbox
Run agent code in isolated sandboxed VMs with configurable CPU, memory, and network limits.
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Fluid Compute
Serverless functions that scale from zero to millions of requests instantly with Active CPU pricing.
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Global CDN
Ultra-fast global content delivery with automatic HTTPS certificates, TLS/SSL encryption, and DDoS mitigation.
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Web Application Firewall
Customizable WAF with rate limiting, IP blocking, OWASP Core Ruleset, and managed bot protection.
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Vercel Workflows
Durable, event-driven workflows for building long-running agent tasks with data persistence.
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Vercel Agent
Autonomous coding agent that investigates errors, plans fixes, and opens pull requests.
🔐
Vercel Passport
Secure every internal agent, app, and deployment with your identity provider.
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Observability
Monitor, analyze, and manage applications with Speed Insights, Web Analytics, and Runtime Logs.
Vercel Pricing
View full pricing →Hobby
Free/mo
- Import your repo, deploy in seconds
- Automatic CI/CD
- Web Application Firewall
- Global, automated CDN
- Fluid compute
- DDoS Mitigation
- Traffic & performance insights
Most popular
Pro
$20/mo
- All Hobby features
- $20 of included usage credit
- Advanced spend management
- Team collaboration & free viewer seats
- Faster builds + no queues
- Cold start prevention
Enterprise
Custom
- All Pro features
- Guest & Team access controls
- SCIM & Directory Sync
- Managed WAF Rulesets
- Multi-region compute & failover
- 99.99% SLA
Compare plans
| Feature | Hobby Free/mo | Pro $20/mo | Enterprise Custom |
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| Import your repo, deploy in seconds | |||
| Automatic CI/CD |
Pricing extracted from the product website and may change. Check the source for current details.
Frequently asked questions about Vercel
Is there a free tier on Vercel?
Yes, the Hobby plan is free at $0/month and includes automatic CI/CD, Web Application Firewall, global CDN, fluid compute, DDoS mitigation, and traffic insights.
What is included in the Pro plan?
The Pro plan costs $20/month and includes all Hobby features plus $20 of included usage credit, advanced spend management, team collaboration with free viewer seats, faster builds with no queues, and cold start prevention.
Does Vercel offer an Enterprise plan?
Yes, the Enterprise plan has custom pricing and includes all Pro features plus guest and team access controls, SCIM and Directory Sync, Managed WAF Rulesets, multi-region compute and failover, a 99.99% SLA, and Advanced Support.
Is Vercel free?
Vercel offers a free plan with optional paid upgrades. See the pricing section for what's included in each tier.
How much does Vercel cost?
Vercel offers the following plans: Hobby, Pro, Enterprise. See the pricing section for what's included in each tier and any per-seat or usage-based costs.
What platforms does Vercel support?
Vercel is available on: Web, macOS, Windows, Linux.
How Vercel compares
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| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Platforms | Web, macOS, Windows, Linux | Web |
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