Infrastructure
Vercel Edge
The most frictionless deploy I have used, at a price.
- Score
- 4.0
- Status
- Still using
- Reviewed
What I tested
The same function as the Cloudflare review, deployed alongside it for the same quarter, on the same upstream and the same traffic mix.
What worked
- Nothing else gets a preview URL attached to every pull request with as little ceremony.
- The framework integration is the best in the market, which matters more than raw request pricing when you are shipping alone.
- Observability out of the box is genuinely useful on day one.
What did not
- Around 2 dollars per million requests once you leave the included volume, against 30 cents on Workers. At volume the gap is the whole decision.
- It is easy to wake up to a bill you did not model because the pricing surface is large.
Verdict
Pay for the developer experience when the team is one or two people and velocity is the constraint. Move the hot path to Workers when traffic makes the unit economics the constraint.