Cloudflare vs Vercel
A side-by-side comparison of Cloudflare and Vercel, two Infra tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Cloudflare
R2 storage charges zero egress fees and Workers run isolate-per-request at the edge — cheaper, closer than Node.
- R2 object storage with no egress fees
- Global edge runtime, low latency
- Workers + D1 + R2 + KV in one platform
- Generous free tier
- Workers isolate model isn't full Node.js
- D1/Durable Objects still maturing
- Some products have CPU-time limits
- Edge-first model needs app rethinking
Vercel
Productized Next.js: git-push to a global edge network, with the AI SDK and v0 generation in one account.
- Zero-config deploys for frontend frameworks
- Global edge network + per-PR preview URLs
- First-party Next.js + AI SDK + v0
- Generous hobby tier
- Costs can scale steeply at high traffic
- Best fit is the Next.js ecosystem
- Some lock-in to platform primitives