What people previously said about Vercel

Older than the 25 on Vercel’s page
“honestly see this take a lot, but vercel is totally fine for most customer portals. 2-3 seconds is high, something else is going on.”
AddendumPuzzled9804 · reddit ·
“Customer facing portals that you want to be snappy, quick and smooth, run away, vercel is not the place.”
Ok_Obligation2440 · reddit ·
“Next.js app deployed on Vercel feels slow when navigating between pages — how would you diagnose this?”
Demolion9751 · reddit ·
“genuinely 1 surprise vercel bill away from bankruptcy”
itsjessyin · x ·
“Vercel is a grind at first but it is fun and I love everyone I've met here”
nutellaoneveryone · reddit ·
“If people can publish straight from Replit/Vercel/Lovable, your normal repo and CI controls will never see it. DNS logs, proxy data and cloud/SaaS inventory are probably the better place to catch new public endpoints tied back to company accounts or domains, then security can decide whether they actually matter”
Cautious_Guess_6621 · reddit ·
“Vercel's strongest if you're on Next.js specifically, otherwise Cloudflare Pages is probably the better default in 2026, better performance and cost with unlimited free bandwith.”
Significant_Chair420 · reddit ·
“I ported the Vercel AI SDK to idiomatic Go — one API for 39 AI providers, zero dependencies”
piwi3910uae · reddit ·
“So far: Vercel is a bit better on caching (but still has low cost providers w/ MEV-like behavior), OR is much better on latency (e.g. TTFT and TPOT)”
tarunchitra · x ·
“We started asking around and found two more instances across other departments, a survey tool built on Replit connected to a shared data store, and a landing page someone spun up on Vercel that had an exposed API key sitting in the client side code.”
IndependentDog673 · reddit ·
“If u are a real web dev u dont need Vercel. U can deploy on your own VPS.”
GetABrainPlz77 · reddit ·
“Used Heroku until they got rid of freeUsed Vercel until they banned img tagsUsed AWS until they suspended my account (they always do this, new account -> week later suspended, can’t pay them, they don’t want me)Used GCP until I got the first billEvery option was a headache, so now I just self host.”
thinkafter · hn ·
“@jonathan_wilke @Namecheap @neondatabase @vercel @DataFast_ you crazy for running that on vercel bud. could have just asked your agent to spin up a cheap VM somewhere else. deploy using docker.”
stewones · x ·
“Yes, Vercel makes all the annoying server stuff super easy so you can focus on building a nice project and website”
MortenMongol · reddit ·
“Everything is simple and just works in vercel.”
grand-yojimbo · reddit ·
“I have created an app with vercel, supabase, github and vsc and i try to put turnstile cloudfare captcha protection but after every deploy it completely ruins my design”
andrew_urbex · reddit ·
“I also have the same issue, I deployed on vercel but you can’t view it on the web, did you get your issue resolved?”
nezzy_young · reddit ·
“Vercel is only best if you value zero config over cost. I deploy to a VPS with Coolify and get identical GitHub auto deploys for a flat monthly fee”
aurora_breach_92 · reddit ·
“The biggest pain was migrating all the secrets from the Vercel project but I was able to migrate all 4 builds within a day.”
Drivephaseco · reddit ·
“Since you're paying, it's also fair to raise it in the official Vercel community forum with the ticket ID so staff can nudge the routing. One last thing that tends to work: ask for it as an account credit against your next invoice rather than a refund — that's usually much easier for them to approve and lands faster.”
davidstayscool · reddit ·
“Vercel’s free tier is fine until you hit limits, then it gets expensive fast.”
PrimaryFamous6139 · reddit ·
“Vercel Sandbox Program at HackerOne is a bittersweet way to test full agentic harness, 10 duplicates so far in testing :D competition is brutal”
_jensec · x ·
“Or install Coolify on that VPS to make it more vercel like”
ArticcaFox · reddit ·
“Had a poor interview experience at Vercel. Had a great second round with next steps scheduled and they cancelled my interview with no feedback.”
Cheap-Self7065 · reddit ·
“considering vercel made nextjs, yes, it's the best method”
Cyb3rPhantom · reddit ·
“Is Vercel still the best method for deploying from Github?”
wayzuno · reddit ·
“The people I know at vercel told me it’s 996, which I flat out refuse to work for even a minute on Saturday’s unless it’s to close a deal.”
doombeckons · reddit ·
“Vercel is good. Crushing it in the mid market space for sure. Very technical product but i love that, just make sure you do.”
Traditional-Cow1371 · reddit ·
“The pay that was shared with me was higher than market rate compared to other roles in my region”
Low-Diet4215 · reddit ·
“I interviewed at vercel. It seemed like it was gonna be a tough grind with lots of hours. Honestly would’ve been down for it but didn’t get past the 2nd stage.”
Vast_Mountain_1888 · reddit ·
“i love vite, but next.js + vercel protected deployments are sooooo nice.”
benhylak · x ·
“I sent in a support ticket 2 weeks ago, and have not heard from anyone. Then I believe I put one in this week or part of last week, and still have heard nothing.”
TaskMotor · reddit ·
“I'd keep Next.js on Vercel and use Render just for the backend, full-stack on Render works but you lose Vercel's Next-specific optimizations.”
Additional_Menu_9021 · reddit ·
“My ISR bills are huge pain as we're having constant deployment. So I remove the ISR from the pages.”
Dapper_Fun_8513 · reddit ·
“Vercel made a big deal about Vercel Agent, but I haven’t seen anyone talk about actually using it. Is anyone using it in production, or is it already dead?”
flybayer · x ·
“Vercel plus Render is a fine shape, but for a store the deciding factor isn't which one renders your frontend nicer. It's what your backend does when nobody is using it.”
Cabecinha84 · reddit ·
“Fellow Devs, is it just me or Vercel is better & more friendly than netlify especially for the Free Development Environment package?”
Munyah_Wacho · x ·
“Vercel is one of the best choices when using Next.js. It makes deploying full-stack apps really smooth and provides easy CI/CD integration.”
Intelligent-Meet-504 · reddit ·
“Vercel adds cost and complexity when your backend lives elsewhere.”
Careless_Video8266 · reddit ·
“But if you’re using Next.js and expect the project to grow, Vercel for the frontend + Render for the backend can be a better combination. I’d mainly decide based on traffic, backend requirements, database setup, and scalability rather than just using one platform for everything.”
Aminul_Islam_Shaon · reddit ·
“My Nextjs/Medusa shop is Vercel/Render. I’m on the free tier for both.”
5eeso · reddit ·
“vercel is really optimzied for hosting nextjs apps. so vercel might be best for hosting frontend and render for backend.”
OkFondant4530 · reddit ·
“Different front ends use it. 4 on netlify and 1 on vercel.”
Viktordarko · reddit ·
“Vercel is really nice for frontend/Next.js stuff, while Render gives you more flexibility on the backend.”
Annual-Reaction-9427 · reddit ·
“Vercel or Render for website”
hobobooboboboo · reddit ·
“Anyway, I tried it and it scored me down for returning 200 on non existent pages and I should return a 404. Well my site is returning 404s so maybe take the tool with a pinch of salt.”
lozcozard · reddit ·
“Vercel launched a cool tool that checks how agent friendly a site is. I tried it on my project and got 100”
khalon23 · reddit ·
“Fine tuning @vercel @vercel_dev to control costs is not easy! The Pro plan is super complicated with lots of stuff on be default that add up fast.”
Trace_Cohen · x ·
“I suddenly cannot connect to my app hosted on vercel.app. it was fine this morning and suddenly "connection refused". Now failed on all vercel.app hosting as well, even the simple public demo.”
FlyingSocioMonster · reddit ·
“My analytics have not been working for a week. I've posted on the [community site](https://community.vercel.com/t/web-analytics-stopped-working/48352)”
theGirvenator · reddit ·