infrastructure//Vercel

Vercel is a cloud platform for deploying web applications, created by the same team behind Next.js: the platform and the framework are designed to work together. It deploys the frontend (static and SSR) and the backend (Vercel Functions) from the same project.

Vercel is a cloud platform for deploying web applications, created by the same team behind Next.js: the platform and the framework are designed to work together. It deploys the frontend (static and SSR) and the backend (Vercel Functions) from the same project.

Under the hood its functions run on AWS Lambda, container-based, with cold starts but longer execution times than Workers.

It suits full-stack apps that need heavy backend logic, PostgreSQL with pgvector, or long-running computations. Cloudflare is edge-first (fast, lightweight, limited compute) and suits content sites better; Vercel's Lambda base is heavier and more flexible, with cold starts.

It integrates natively with Neon and Supabase for the database.