Vercel vs Netlify
A comparison of Vercel and Netlify 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 Netlify if
- Teams that want Git-driven deploys onto a global CDN with a managed Postgres database built into the same platform. The free tier is 300 credits a month with a hard limit, so spend cannot surprise you.
12 sourced criteria separate them:
- Entry paid plan
- Vercel: $20 per developer seat / month (Pro)
- Netlify: $9/month for 1,000 credits/month
- Pricing model
- Vercel: Per-seat subscription plus metered resource usage
- Netlify: Monthly plan credits are included with your plan each billing cycle and reset at the start of each cycle.
- Egress over allowance
- Vercel: Fast Data Transfer: 1 GB for $0.15 - $0.35 (after First 1 TB included)
- Netlify: 20 credits per GB ($0.13 per GB)
- When you exceed a cap
- Vercel: Billed automatically: extra usage beyond the included amount or Pro credit is charged, not throttled or suspended
- Netlify: Suspended: when credits run out every project is paused and visitors see a Site not available page, unless auto recharge is enabled to buy more credits automatically
- Memory (entry plan)
- Vercel: Vercel Functions on Pro: 2 GB / 1 vCPU default, 4 GB / 2 vCPU maximum. Basic build machine has 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory.
- Netlify: 1024 MB (1 GB) default memory per function; raising it to 4096 MB (4 GB) requires a Credit-based Pro or Enterprise plan, so Personal is capped at the 1024 MB default
- Sites or apps included
- Vercel: Unlimited Projects on Pro (200 on Hobby)
- Netlify: 500 projects on the Personal plan (same limit on Free and Pro)
- 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.
- Netlify: No fixed visit cap; traffic is metered against the Personal plan's 1,000 credits/month at 2 credits per 10,000 web requests and 20 credits per GB of bandwidth
- File or inode limit
- Vercel: 15,000 source files per CLI deployment (platform-wide); no upper limit on output files created during a build
- Netlify: No limit on files per deploy, but a hard limit of 54,000 files per directory (platform-wide)
- Concurrent builds
- Vercel: Pro: up to 500 concurrent deployments with on-demand concurrency, or 3 if on-demand concurrency is off
- Netlify: Personal: 1 concurrent build included, purchasable up to a maximum of 3, at $40/month per additional build
- Max request duration
- Vercel: Hobby: 300s default and maximum. Pro and Enterprise: 300s default, 800s maximum, and 1800s extended maximum
- Netlify: 60 seconds (synchronous); 30 seconds (scheduled); 15 minutes (background)
- Edge function timeout
- Vercel: Edge runtime: must begin sending a response within 25 seconds to keep streaming beyond that point; streaming may then continue for up to 300 seconds. Stated for the Edge runtime specifically, not plan-differentiated (applies on Pro, the cheapest paid plan).
- Netlify: Response header timeout of 40 s for Edge Functions (the documented time limit on the edge runtime, alongside the separate 50 ms CPU cap). Listed under operation limits with no plan differentiation.
- Streaming response limit
- Vercel: Edge runtime streaming: up to 300 seconds, provided the response starts within 25 seconds. For Node.js/Bun/Python runtimes the docs state that max duration covers streamed responses too (Pro: 300s default, 800s maximum). Not plan-differentiated for the Edge figure.
- Netlify: Streaming (non-edge) Functions: 60-second execution limit and 20 MB response size limit. Stated without plan differentiation (applies on the cheapest paid plan).
At a glance.
| Criterion | Vercel | Netlify |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry paid plan | $20 per developer seat / month (Pro) | $9/month for 1,000 credits/month |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription plus metered resource usage | Monthly plan credits are included with your plan each billing cycle and reset at the start of each cycle. |
| Egress over allowance | Fast Data Transfer: 1 GB for $0.15 - $0.35 (after First 1 TB included) | 20 credits per GB ($0.13 per GB) |
| When you exceed a cap | Billed automatically: extra usage beyond the included amount or Pro credit is charged, not throttled or suspended | Suspended: when credits run out every project is paused and visitors see a Site not available page, unless auto recharge is enabled to buy more credits automatically |
| Limits | ||
| Memory (entry plan) | Vercel Functions on Pro: 2 GB / 1 vCPU default, 4 GB / 2 vCPU maximum. Basic build machine has 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory. | 1024 MB (1 GB) default memory per function; raising it to 4096 MB (4 GB) requires a Credit-based Pro or Enterprise plan, so Personal is capped at the 1024 MB default |
| Sites or apps included | Unlimited Projects on Pro (200 on Hobby) | 500 projects on the Personal plan (same limit on Free and Pro) |
| 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 fixed visit cap; traffic is metered against the Personal plan's 1,000 credits/month at 2 credits per 10,000 web requests and 20 credits per GB of bandwidth |
| File or inode limit | 15,000 source files per CLI deployment (platform-wide); no upper limit on output files created during a build | No limit on files per deploy, but a hard limit of 54,000 files per directory (platform-wide) |
| Concurrent builds | Pro: up to 500 concurrent deployments with on-demand concurrency, or 3 if on-demand concurrency is off | Personal: 1 concurrent build included, purchasable up to a maximum of 3, at $40/month per additional build |
| Max request duration | Hobby: 300s default and maximum. Pro and Enterprise: 300s default, 800s maximum, and 1800s extended maximum | 60 seconds (synchronous); 30 seconds (scheduled); 15 minutes (background) |
| Execution | ||
| Edge function timeout | Edge runtime: must begin sending a response within 25 seconds to keep streaming beyond that point; streaming may then continue for up to 300 seconds. Stated for the Edge runtime specifically, not plan-differentiated (applies on Pro, the cheapest paid plan). | Response header timeout of 40 s for Edge Functions (the documented time limit on the edge runtime, alongside the separate 50 ms CPU cap). Listed under operation limits with no plan differentiation. |
| Streaming response limit | Edge runtime streaming: up to 300 seconds, provided the response starts within 25 seconds. For Node.js/Bun/Python runtimes the docs state that max duration covers streamed responses too (Pro: 300s default, 800s maximum). Not plan-differentiated for the Edge figure. | Streaming (non-edge) Functions: 60-second execution limit and 20 MB response size limit. Stated without plan differentiation (applies on the cheapest paid plan). |
| Deployment | ||
| Git deployment | Supported | Supported |
| Scheduled jobs | Supported | Supported |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Edge network | Supported | Supported |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Vercel
- $20 per developer seat / month (Pro)
- Netlify
- $9/month for 1,000 credits/month
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel Hobby Plan ↗
“Developer seats cost $20 per user / month, while Viewer seats are free”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Credit-based pricing plans | Netlify Docs ↗
“$9/month for 1,000 credits/month, with an auto recharge option (500 credits for $5) if you go over your monthly credits.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Pricing model
- Vercel
- Per-seat subscription plus metered resource usage
- Netlify
- Monthly plan credits are included with your plan each billing cycle and reset at the start of each cycle.
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
- Credit-based pricing plans | Netlify Docs ↗
“By using credits to measure and bill for usage, Netlify users have fewer metrics to track and more flexibility on how to optimize their spending.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Egress over allowance
- Vercel
- Fast Data Transfer: 1 GB for $0.15 - $0.35 (after First 1 TB included)
- Netlify
- 20 credits per GB ($0.13 per GB)
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Regional Pricing - Vercel Docs ↗
“| Fast Data Transfer | First 1 TB | 1 GB for $0.15 - $0.35 |”
Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing
- Pricing | Netlify ↗
“Bandwidth | 20 credits per GB [...] Bandwidth | 20 | $0.13 per GB”
Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing
When you exceed a cap
- Vercel
- Billed automatically: extra usage beyond the included amount or Pro credit is charged, not throttled or suspended
- Netlify
- Suspended: when credits run out every project is paused and visitors see a Site not available page, unless auto recharge is enabled to buy more credits automatically
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing on Vercel ↗
“Some resources include an amount of usage your projects can use within your billing cycle. Pro teams also receive a monthly usage credit and can use many resources on demand. If you exceed an included amount or credit, Vercel charges for the extra usage.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- How credits work ↗
“Once your credit balance is completely used up, all of your web projects (sites/apps) are paused and visitors to your web projects will find a `Site not available` page at each of your web project's URLs.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Memory (entry plan)
- Vercel
- Vercel Functions on Pro: 2 GB / 1 vCPU default, 4 GB / 2 vCPU maximum. Basic build machine has 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory.
- Netlify
- 1024 MB (1 GB) default memory per function; raising it to 4096 MB (4 GB) requires a Credit-based Pro or Enterprise plan, so Personal is capped at the 1024 MB default
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel Functions Limits ↗
“Vercel Functions have the following defaults and maximum limits: | Pro / Enterprise | 2 GB / 1 vCPU | 4 GB / 2 vCPU |”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Functions usage and billing | Netlify Docs ↗
“The default memory allocation for Netlify Functions is 1024 MB (1 GB). If you have a Credit-based Pro or Enterprise plan, you can increase the memory allocation of a function up to 4096 MB (4 GB), which also provides a proportionally higher vCPU allocation.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Sites or apps included
- Vercel
- Unlimited Projects on Pro (200 on Hobby)
- Netlify
- 500 projects on the Personal plan (same limit on Free and Pro)
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Limits ↗
“| Projects | 200 | Unlimited | Unlimited |”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Credit-based pricing plans | Netlify Docs ↗
“Project count limit — Personal: 500 projects”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
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.
- Netlify
- No fixed visit cap; traffic is metered against the Personal plan's 1,000 credits/month at 2 credits per 10,000 web requests and 20 credits per GB of bandwidth
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
- How credits work ↗
“| Web requests | 2 credits per 10,000 requests | Web traffic requests to your site or app, includes page views, API calls, redirects, requests to serverless functions, asset requests | ... | Bandwidth | 20 credits per GB | Data sent out to the internet, such as assets hosted on Netlify or files downloaded from your site/app. |”
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
No limit on files per deploy, but a hard limit of 54,000 files per directory (platform-wide)
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
- Deploy overview ↗
“While Netlify doesn't have a limit on the number of files per deploy, we do have a limit of 54,000 files per directory. If any directory within your publish directory has more than 54,000 files, your deploys will fail.”
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
- Netlify
- Personal: 1 concurrent build included, purchasable up to a maximum of 3, at $40/month per additional build
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
- Credit-based pricing plans | Netlify Docs ↗
“1 concurrent build included in plan with option to purchase more. Limited to 3 concurrent builds, meaning up to 3 builds can run at the same time. Ideal for using multiple agents and running projects that depend on each other. Add 1 additional concurrent build as an add-on at $40/month”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Max request duration
- Vercel
- Hobby: 300s default and maximum. Pro and Enterprise: 300s default, 800s maximum, and 1800s extended maximum
- Netlify
- 60 seconds (synchronous); 30 seconds (scheduled); 15 minutes (background)
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel Functions Limits - Vercel Docs ↗
“Maximum duration | Hobby: 300s default and maximum. Pro and Enterprise: 300s default, 800s maximum, and 1800s extended maximum .”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Configuration for functions | Netlify Docs ↗
“Synchronous execution limit | 60 seconds | No — Scheduled execution limit | 30 seconds | No — Background execution limit | 15 minutes | No”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Edge function timeout
- Vercel
- Edge runtime: must begin sending a response within 25 seconds to keep streaming beyond that point; streaming may then continue for up to 300 seconds. Stated for the Edge runtime specifically, not plan-differentiated (applies on Pro, the cheapest paid plan).
- Netlify
- Response header timeout of 40 s for Edge Functions (the documented time limit on the edge runtime, alongside the separate 50 ms CPU cap). Listed under operation limits with no plan differentiation.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel Functions Limits ↗
“Edge runtime — Vercel Functions using the Edge runtime must begin sending a response within 25 seconds to maintain streaming capabilities beyond this period, and can continue streaming data for up to 300 seconds.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Edge Functions limits ↗
“Operation limits — Edge functions have limits for their size and the amount of memory and execution time they can use: Code size limit: 20 MB after compression … Memory per set of deployed edge functions: 512 MB … CPU execution time per request: 50 ms … Response header timeout: 40 s”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Streaming response limit
- Vercel
- Edge runtime streaming: up to 300 seconds, provided the response starts within 25 seconds. For Node.js/Bun/Python runtimes the docs state that max duration covers streamed responses too (Pro: 300s default, 800s maximum). Not plan-differentiated for the Edge figure.
- Netlify
- Streaming (non-edge) Functions: 60-second execution limit and 20 MB response size limit. Stated without plan differentiation (applies on the cheapest paid plan).
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Vercel Functions Limits ↗
“Vercel Functions using the Edge runtime must begin sending a response within 25 seconds to maintain streaming capabilities beyond this period, and can continue streaming data for up to 300 seconds.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
- Functions API reference ↗
“A function can stream data to clients as it becomes available, instead of returning a buffered payload after the function finishes. To stream a response, return a ReadableStream as the body of the Response. Streaming functions have a 60-second execution limit and a 20 MB response size limit.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
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 Netlify if…
Teams that want Git-driven deploys onto a global CDN with a managed Postgres database built into the same platform. The free tier is 300 credits a month with a hard limit, so spend cannot surprise you.
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.
- Netlify: You need to run containers or long-lived processes — Netlify does not document either.
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.