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Replaces Vercel. 4 ways out. Best: Cloudflare (free tier) (switch vendor), about $190 saved in year one.

Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. No verified migrations yet. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

What you use

  • Git push deploys
  • Preview deployments
  • Serverless functions
  • Custom domains and SSL

Not covered

  • Edge CDN
  • Image optimization
  • Web analytics
  • Firewall and bot protection
  • Blob storage
  • Cron jobs

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Git push deploys, Preview deployments, Serverless functions, Custom domains and SSL
  • Export your data from Vercel before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-vercel") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Switch vendorCloudflare (free tier)Saves $190 in year one
$20/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $240/yr · payback 2.5 mo
1 seat. If your use fits the free tier (Free DNS, CDN, SSL, DDoS; Workers 100k requests/day).
Covers 100% of the core features
Cloudflare Pages/Workers free tier (100k requests/day) covers many sites; Workers Paid is $5/mo.
Sources: vercel.comcloudflare.com
Switch vendorGitHub Pages (free tier)Saves $190 in year one
$20/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $240/yr · payback 2.5 mo
1 seat. If your use fits the free tier (Free for public repos; usage limits apply).
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Preview deployments, Serverless functions)
Free for static sites only (no server functions).
Sources: vercel.comdocs.github.com
Switch vendorNetlifySaves $82 in year one
$20/mo today → $9/mo · setup 1 h · then $132/yr · payback 4.5 mo
1 seat. Netlify Personal is $9/mo vs Vercel Pro $20 for a single member.
Covers 100% of the core features
Netlify Personal is $9/mo vs Vercel Pro $20 for a single member.
Sources: vercel.comnetlify.com
Open sourceCoolifyCosts $1,220 more in year one
$20/mo today → $5/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 4 h
1 seat. Self-host a Vercel-like PaaS on a cheap VPS; you manage servers and uptime.
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Serverless functions)
Self-host a Vercel-like PaaS on a cheap VPS; you manage servers and uptime.
License: open_source
Sources: vercel.comcoolify.io

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