Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages
A comparison of Vercel and Cloudflare Pages built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
- Pick Vercel if
- Teams building on a framework the CDN understands natively, who want a predictable per-seat cost with metered usage on top. The Git integration covers GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, so it drops into an existing review workflow.
- Pick Cloudflare Pages if
- Projects where the entire fixed cost should be a $5 monthly account minimum rather than a per-seat fee, and teams already running on the wider Workers platform. Billing is metered, so cost tracks traffic rather than headcount.
9 sourced criteria separate them:
- Entry paid plan
- Vercel: $20 per developer seat / month (Pro)
- Cloudflare Pages: $5 / month account minimum
- Pricing model
- Vercel: Per-seat subscription plus metered resource usage
- Cloudflare Pages: Metered usage with a $5 monthly account minimum
- Sites or apps included
- Vercel: Unlimited Projects on Pro (200 on Hobby)
- Cloudflare Pages: 100 projects per account (platform-wide, all plans)
- Monthly visits cap
- Vercel: No hard visit cap on Pro. Pro includes the first 10,000,000 Edge Requests and the first 1 TB of Fast Data Transfer, with additional consumption billed on demand.
- Cloudflare Pages: No cap on static asset requests on any plan; requests to Pages Functions count against the Workers Paid plan quota
- File or inode limit
- Vercel: 15,000 source files per CLI deployment (platform-wide); no upper limit on output files created during a build
- Cloudflare Pages: 100,000 files per site on paid plans (20,000 on Free); maximum single asset size 25 MiB
- Concurrent builds
- Vercel: Pro: up to 500 concurrent deployments with on-demand concurrency, or 3 if on-demand concurrency is off
- Cloudflare Pages: 5 concurrent builds on Pro (1 on Free, 20 on Business), with 5,000 builds per month on Pro
- Managed connection pooling
- Vercel: Limited
- Cloudflare Pages: Supported
- Scheduled jobs
- Vercel: Supported
- Cloudflare Pages: Not supported
- Regions
- Vercel: 126 PoPs across 51 countries
- Cloudflare Pages: 348 cities across 100+ countries
At a glance.
| Criterion | Vercel | Cloudflare Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry paid plan | $20 per developer seat / month (Pro) | $5 / month account minimum |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription plus metered resource usage | Metered usage with a $5 monthly account minimum |
| Limits | ||
| Sites or apps included | Unlimited Projects on Pro (200 on Hobby) | 100 projects per account (platform-wide, all plans) |
| Monthly visits cap | No hard visit cap on Pro. Pro includes the first 10,000,000 Edge Requests and the first 1 TB of Fast Data Transfer, with additional consumption billed on demand. | No cap on static asset requests on any plan; requests to Pages Functions count against the Workers Paid plan quota |
| File or inode limit | 15,000 source files per CLI deployment (platform-wide); no upper limit on output files created during a build | 100,000 files per site on paid plans (20,000 on Free); maximum single asset size 25 MiB |
| Concurrent builds | Pro: up to 500 concurrent deployments with on-demand concurrency, or 3 if on-demand concurrency is off | 5 concurrent builds on Pro (1 on Free, 20 on Business), with 5,000 builds per month on Pro |
| Execution | ||
| Managed connection pooling | Limited | Supported |
| Deployment | ||
| Git deployment | Supported | Supported |
| Scheduled jobs | Supported | Not supported |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Edge network | Supported | Supported |
| Regions | 126 PoPs across 51 countries | 348 cities across 100+ countries |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Vercel
- $20 per developer seat / month (Pro)
- Cloudflare Pages
- $5 / month account minimum
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel Hobby Plan ↗
“Developer seats cost $20 per user / month, while Viewer seats are free”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Cloudflare Workers and Pages pricing ↗
“The Workers Paid plan includes Workers, Pages Functions, Workers KV, Hyperdrive, and Durable Objects usage for a minimum charge of $5 USD per month for an account.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Pricing model
- Vercel
- Per-seat subscription plus metered resource usage
- Cloudflare Pages
- Metered usage with a $5 monthly account minimum
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel CDN overview ↗
“CDN pricing covers three billable resources: Edge Requests, Fast Data Transfer, and Fast Origin Transfer.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Cloudflare Workers and Pages pricing ↗
“The Workers Paid plan includes Workers, Pages Functions, Workers KV, Hyperdrive, and Durable Objects usage for a minimum charge of $5 USD per month for an account.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Sites or apps included
- Vercel
- Unlimited Projects on Pro (200 on Hobby)
- Cloudflare Pages
- 100 projects per account (platform-wide, all plans)
Monthly visits cap
- Vercel
- No hard visit cap on Pro. Pro includes the first 10,000,000 Edge Requests and the first 1 TB of Fast Data Transfer, with additional consumption billed on demand.
- Cloudflare Pages
- No cap on static asset requests on any plan; requests to Pages Functions count against the Workers Paid plan quota
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Limits ↗
“Pro includes a credit that you can use across billable resources and a pay-as-you-go model for additional consumption. Vercel automatically charges extra usage at the following rates: [...] | [Fast Data Transfer](/docs/pricing/regional-pricing) | Regional | First 1 TB | [...] | [Edge Requests](/docs/pricing/regional-pricing) | Regional | First 10,000,000 |”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Pricing · Cloudflare Pages docs ↗
“On both free and paid plans, requests to static assets are free and unlimited. [...] Requests to your Pages functions count towards your quota for Workers Paid plans, including requests from your Function to KV or Durable Object bindings.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
File or inode limit
15,000 source files per CLI deployment (platform-wide); no upper limit on output files created during a build
100,000 files per site on paid plans (20,000 on Free); maximum single asset size 25 MiB
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Limits ↗
“The maximum number of files that can be uploaded when creating a CLI Deployment is `15,000` for source files. Deployments that contain more files than the limit will fail at the build step. Although there is no upper limit for output files created during a build, you can expect longer build times as a result of having many thousands of output files (100,000 or more, for example).”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Limits ↗
“Cloudflare Pages sites can contain up to 20,000 files on the Free plan. Paid plans (such as Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans) can have up to 100,000 files per site. [...] The maximum file size for a single Cloudflare Pages site asset is 25 MiB.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Concurrent builds
- Vercel
- Pro: up to 500 concurrent deployments with on-demand concurrency, or 3 if on-demand concurrency is off
- Cloudflare Pages
- 5 concurrent builds on Pro (1 on Free, 20 on Business), with 5,000 builds per month on Pro
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Managing Builds ↗
“**Pro:** Up to 500 concurrent deployments with on-demand concurrency (3 if on demand is off). You are billed for the build minutes you use.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Limits ↗
“Builds table — Free: 1 build at a time, 500 builds per month; Pro: 5 concurrent builds, 5,000 builds per month; Business: 20 concurrent builds, 20,000 builds per month”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Managed connection pooling
- Vercel
- Limited
- Cloudflare Pages
- Supported
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Connection Pooling with Vercel Functions — Vercel Guides ↗
“On Fluid compute, the default execution model for new Vercel projects, Functions reuse global state within a warm instance. Multiple concurrent invocations share the same instance, so they can share a single database connection or connection pool instead of opening a new connection on every request. To pool connections safely, initialize your pool in the global scope and register it with attachDatabasePool from @vercel/functions [...] This helper closes idle connections before an instance suspends, which keeps your connection count under control.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Bindings · Cloudflare Pages docs ↗
“Hyperdrive is a service for connecting to your existing databases from Cloudflare Workers and Pages Functions. … PostgreSQL drivers like Postgres.js depend on Node.js APIs. Pages Functions with Hyperdrive bindings must be deployed with Node.js compatibility.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Scheduled jobs
- Vercel
- Supported
- Cloudflare Pages
- Not supported
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Cron Jobs - Vercel Docs ↗
“Vercel supports cron jobs for Vercel Functions. Cron jobs can be added through vercel.json or the Build Output API.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Migrate from Pages to Workers · Cloudflare Workers docs ↗
“Cron Triggers | ✅ | ❌ (compatibility matrix column headings: Workers | Pages)”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Regions
- Vercel
- 126 PoPs across 51 countries
- Cloudflare Pages
- 348 cities across 100+ countries
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel CDN overview ↗
“Vercel operates 126 Points of Presence (PoPs) across 51 countries.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- The Cloudflare global network ↗
“348 cities ... 100+ countries”
Read 2026-09-05 · official site
Which should you choose?
Choose Vercel if…
Teams building on a framework the CDN understands natively, who want a predictable per-seat cost with metered usage on top. The Git integration covers GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, so it drops into an existing review workflow.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Cloudflare Pages if…
Projects where the entire fixed cost should be a $5 monthly account minimum rather than a per-seat fee, and teams already running on the wider Workers platform. Billing is metered, so cost tracks traffic rather than headcount.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Vercel: The team is large enough that $20 per developer seat dominates the bill rather than the metered usage underneath it.
- Cloudflare Pages: Your repository is hosted somewhere other than GitHub or GitLab, or the free plan's 500 builds a month is not enough headroom.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.