Hosting · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 26 Sept 2026
On free tier, Vercel is $0 /mo. (Hobby): non-commercial use only and Cloudflare Workers is Free: 100,000 per day. On cheapest paid plan, Vercel is $20 /mo. (Pro) and Cloudflare Workers is $5.00 per month (Workers Paid). On rate above what's included, Vercel is Fast Data Transfer 100 GB included on Hobby; on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDN and Cloudflare Workers is +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds. StackTab sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either: it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
2 compared · 3 criteria, identical for every column · every competitor figure read off that company's own page · last verified 2026-09-18
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VercelThe Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.verified 25 Sept 2026vercel.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
| Cloudflare WorkersEdge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 25 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
- Sorted by the total at
- The Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.verified 25 Sept 2026vercel.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 10,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 100,000 users
- $
175175 Pro
- Edge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 25 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 10,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 100,000 users
- $
1010 Workers Paid
| Criterion | Vercel | Cloudflare Workers |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 /mo. (Hobby): non-commercial use onlyThe restriction is the whole story: a plan that forbids charging money for the app is not an option for a business, at any price. | Free: 100,000 per day100,000 requests a day with a 10-millisecond CPU ceiling per invocation, and no charge for duration. |
| Cheapest paid plan | $20 /mo. (Pro)Includes $20 of usage credit, so the first $20 of metered usage is absorbed before anything else appears on the bill. | $5.00 per month (Workers Paid)10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds included. |
| Rate above what's included | Fast Data Transfer 100 GB included on Hobby; on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDNVercel moved CDN usage onto flat rate CDN on Pro after this row was read on 8 September 2026: "CDN requests, fast data transfer, and other resources are no longer billed directly." The 1 TB allowance and the $0.15 per GB overage this row recorded are both off the page. The $0.15 per GB still on the page belongs to static IPs on the shared pool. The metered rates that remain on Pro include function invocations starting at $0.60 per 1M, Fluid active CPU starting at $0.128 per hour and Fluid provisioned memory starting at $0.0106 per GB-hour. | +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU millisecondsAnd nothing for bandwidth at any volume. That is a different pricing model rather than a discount, and it is the reason a media-heavy app lands here. |
- Free tier: what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words
- Rate above what's included: the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one
Vercel: $0 /mo. (Hobby): non-commercial use only. The restriction is the whole story: a plan that forbids charging money for the app is not an option for a business, at any price. Cloudflare Workers: Free: 100,000 per day. 100,000 requests a day with a 10-millisecond CPU ceiling per invocation, and no charge for duration. Read from vercel.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Vercel: $20 /mo. (Pro). Includes $20 of usage credit, so the first $20 of metered usage is absorbed before anything else appears on the bill. Cloudflare Workers: $5.00 per month (Workers Paid). 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds included. Read from vercel.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-18.
Vercel: Fast Data Transfer 100 GB included on Hobby; on Pro it is covered by flat rate CDN. Vercel moved CDN usage onto flat rate CDN on Pro after this row was read on 8 September 2026: "CDN requests, fast data transfer, and other resources are no longer billed directly." The 1 TB allowance and the $0.15 per GB overage this row recorded are both off the page. The $0.15 per GB still on the page belongs to static IPs on the shared pool. The metered rates that remain on Pro include function invocations starting at $0.60 per 1M, Fluid active CPU starting at $0.128 per hour and Fluid provisioned memory starting at $0.0106 per GB-hour. Cloudflare Workers: +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds. And nothing for bandwidth at any volume. That is a different pricing model rather than a discount, and it is the reason a media-heavy app lands here. Read from vercel.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-18. Rate above what's included here means the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one.
Vercel: You are shipping Next.js and you want the framework and the platform to be the same decision. Nothing else here matches Vercel on that, the $20 of included usage absorbs the metered lines for a long time on an app that mostly serves HTML and JSON, and the preview-deployment workflow is the one every other platform is copying. Cloudflare Workers: Bandwidth is your dominant cost. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is not a cheaper rate than the others: it is the absence of the line that dominates their bills, and no amount of optimisation elsewhere closes that gap.
StackTab does not sell any of these and has nothing to gain from which one you choose: it scores them. Each case below is the one that option genuinely wins.
- Vercel: You are shipping Next.js and you want the framework and the platform to be the same decision. Nothing else here matches Vercel on that, the $20 of included usage absorbs the metered lines for a long time on an app that mostly serves HTML and JSON, and the preview-deployment workflow is the one every other platform is copying.
- Cloudflare Workers: Bandwidth is your dominant cost. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is not a cheaper rate than the others: it is the absence of the line that dominates their bills, and no amount of optimisation elsewhere closes that gap.
Prices and limits move, and a page quoting a stale one is worth less than a page quoting none. Every source is printed here so a reader can check it against the day they are reading this, and a job re-fetches each of these URLs on a schedule and fails when a figure above no longer appears on the page it came from.
- Vercel: vercel.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
- Cloudflare Workers: developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
Last verified 2026-09-18. https://stacktab.thecompound.tech/compare/vercel-vs-cloudflare-workers