Target Audience
App Alternatives
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What is Vercel
Vercel is a cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications. It provides automated CI/CD, a global CDN, serverless and fluid compute, preview deployments, application security, observability, and infrastructure services, with particularly strong support for Next.js and modern JavaScript applications.
Overview
Vercel provides a managed platform for deploying web applications from Git repositories or the Vercel CLI. It automatically builds and deploys projects and creates preview deployments for changes. The platform includes a global application delivery network, automatic HTTPS, caching and image optimization, serverless and fluid compute, environment variables, rollbacks, traffic routing, DDoS mitigation, a web application firewall, analytics, and spend management. Vercel also provides AI-focused infrastructure including AI Gateway, Vercel Sandbox, and Vercel Workflows. Its platform supports multiple frameworks and runtimes, while Next.js is developed and maintained by Vercel.
Who should use it
- You want fast Git-based deployments with automatic preview environments.
- You are building Next.js or another modern web application framework.
- You want a global CDN, automatic HTTPS, caching, and managed compute without maintaining servers.
- You need built-in deployment security, observability, and spend-management features.
- You want infrastructure for web applications and AI-powered applications.
Key Features
- Git-based deployments
- Automatic CI/CD
- Preview deployments
- Global CDN
- Vercel Functions
- Fluid Compute
- Vercel Sandbox
- Automatic HTTPS and TLS
- Custom domains
- Image optimization
- Incremental Static Regeneration
- Edge requests
- Caching and content delivery
- Automatic scaling
- Instant rollbacks
- Rolling releases
- Environment variables
- Web Application Firewall
- DDoS mitigation
- Bot protection
- Traffic routing and load balancing
- Application analytics and observability
- Spend management
- Vercel Blob storage
- Vercel Workflows
- AI Gateway
- REST API
- CLI
Integrations Supported
Frequently Asked Questions
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