Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages

See how frontend deployment, edge delivery, and developer workflow differ.

Vercel

The platform for frontend developers to deploy and scale

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Cloudflare Pages

JAMstack platform for frontend developers

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Our take

Vercel wins for teams that want Next.js to just work and are willing to pay for polish — preview URLs, analytics, and the deepest framework integration. Cloudflare Pages is the right call when bandwidth bills, global edge runtime, or vendor diversification matter more than the smoothest Next.js path.

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At a Glance

Attribute	Vercel	Cloudflare Pages
Category	Hosting	Hosting
Pricing Model	freemium	freemium
Starting Price	Free / $20/mo	Free / $20/mo
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Open Source	No	No
Platforms	web, serverless, edge	web, edge

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Vercel

Cloudflare Pages

Key Features

Vercel

git-based deploys
automatic CI/CD
CDN
WAF
DDoS mitigation
traffic insights
cold start prevention

Cloudflare Pages

Pros & Cons

Vercel

Pros

Zero-config deployment for Next.js — push to GitHub and your app is live with edge caching, preview URLs, and analytics in minutes+196
Preview deployments per pull request are a game changer for design review and stakeholder feedback without needing a staging environment+178
The edge network is extremely fast and the global CDN means static assets load in under 100ms for users anywhere in the world+161
Automatic SSL, custom domains, and environment variables are managed through the dashboard without touching any config files+147
The analytics and Web Vitals integration shows real user performance data per route without adding any tracking code+129

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Cloudflare Pages

Pros

The free tier is extremely generous — unlimited bandwidth and requests with no bandwidth billing at all+174
Cloudflare Workers integration means your edge functions run in 200+ locations globally with true sub-50ms latency+158
Static asset serving is consistently the fastest I've benchmarked — Cloudflare's network is built for performance at the edge+143
No cold starts for Workers functions because Cloudflare's V8 isolate model keeps them warm without dedicated containers+128

Cons

Debugging Workers is harder than debugging a normal Node.js server — the runtime limitations catch you off guard with crypto or Node.js APIs missing+147
Local development with Wrangler is improving but still has gaps between local behavior and production behavior that cause confusing bugs+123
Workers KV and Durable Objects are powerful but have a learning curve and the eventual consistency model of KV can surprise you+98
No built-in support for long-running processes — anything over a few seconds of CPU time needs to be handed off to a queue+84

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