Vercel's free plan doesn't allow that, and going legitimate there costs $20 a seat. This is the $7 middle: 150 GB of fast global CDN, real server-side compute that sleeps when nobody's visiting and wakes in 4–36 ms, and a hard spend cap so the bill can't surprise you.
Card required — the $7 is the trial. Cancel in one click, no retention maze.
Not a free tier with the useful parts removed. The whole thing, at a price you don't have to think about.
Nobody visiting? Your app sleeps and bills nothing. The next request wakes it in 4–36 ms — no cold-start tax, on the cheapest plan we sell.
Your worst-case bill is a number you set — $20/mo by default. We stop before it, not after. No surprise invoice, ever.
SSR, API routes, ISR and server actions run in a Firecracker microVM with 2 GB and a full vCPU — not a stripped-down edge sandbox.
Static assets and cached pages served from a global edge network. 150 GB of US/EU traffic is included in the $7.
Attach up to 5 custom domains. Certificates are issued and renewed for you. Commercial use is allowed — that is the whole point.
Every branch gets its own stable preview URL. No injected toolbar, no badge on the page — safe to send straight to a client.
The no-cold-start claim is measurable, so we published it: put an app to sleep and wake it yourself →
If your project isn't earning yet, Vercel's free plan is genuinely fine — stay there. The moment it earns, their terms need you on a $20 seat. That's the moment this exists for.
Already paying for Vercel Pro? Then compare like-for-like: same compute meters, memory at their exact rate, active CPU at half, US/EU bandwidth at $0.02/GB against their $0.15. Put your own numbers in the calculator — it tells you when they're cheaper, too. Weighing Cloudflare, Netlify, Railway, Render or a VPS you run yourself? We wrote that up too, including where each of them beats us.
Connect a repo, get a URL. The same pipeline runs every deploy after that.
Link your account and pick the repository
We detect the framework and configure the build
Live on your own domain with HTTPS, in minutes
Zero-config builds via framework detection. Next.js is what we test hardest — a corpus of a few hundred apps runs against every change.
And more: Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, Vite, Create React App, Express, Fastify...
Easier to read this now than to discover it after you've migrated. If any row is a dealbreaker, we'd rather you knew today.
Not your whole account — one project, ten minutes. If it doesn't hold up, cancel in one click and you're out $7.