Vercel
Compared on our own monthly crawl of 29.9M live business domains, both vendors' pricing pages read on Sep 23, 2026 and 169 G2 reviews.
Published Sep 23, 2026Updated Sep 23, 2026September 2026 crawl
Vercel
1,537
domains gained from Netlify in 90 days
Netlify
407
domains gained from Vercel in 90 days
Choose Vercel if…
- You build on Next.js: Vercel's customer profile in our data lists Next.js with Tailwind CSS as its framework
- You want a web application firewall with custom rules on every plan (up to 3 on Hobby, 40 on Pro), where Netlify lists its WAF as limited
- Reviewers rate it higher: G2 4.7 on 86 reviews against 4.5 on 83, with the widest gap on being a good partner in doing business (9.3 to 8.3)
Choose Netlify if…
- Your team has several members: Netlify Pro is $20 a month for unlimited members, where Vercel Pro charges $20 a month per developer seat
- You want a database inside the platform: Netlify Database provisions Postgres on every plan, including Free
- You want spend to stop at a ceiling by default: a Netlify project pauses at its credit limit unless auto recharge is on, and a $9 Personal plan sits between Free and Pro
How we collect this data
Every number names its source and the date it was read.
1,537 domains dropped Netlify and now run Vercel in the 90 days to September 23, 2026, against 407 that went the other way: a 3.8 : 1 flow toward Vercel (TechnologyChecker, September 2026 crawl). The bases are not close: Vercel is detected on 389,653 domains (16.64% of PaaS, position #2) to Netlify's 154,481 (6.6%, #6) as of August 2026. 2,527 domains carry both. Vercel is detected from its response headers, its DNS nameservers or scripts served from vercel.app, and Netlify from its headers, scripts or CDN, so one domain can carry both signals: on different hostnames, or on one hostname that, for example, uses Vercel's DNS for a site Netlify serves. Both Pro plans list at $20 a month, but Vercel charges it per developer seat with $20 of usage credit, while Netlify's covers unlimited members and 3,000 credits. Vercel is the pick for Next.js projects, a firewall with custom rules on every plan and the higher reviews (G2 4.7 to 4.5); Netlify is the pick for a team that wants every member on one $20 plan, Postgres built in, and spend that stops at a credit ceiling by default.
At a glance
September 2026 crawlVercelVercel389,653Netlify154,481VercelVercel16.6%Netlify6.6%VercelVercel#2Netlify#6VercelVercel1,537Netlify407NetlifyVercel$20/moNetlify$9/moVercelYesNetlifyYesWho is switching between Vercel and Netlify?
Analysed Sep 23, 20261,537domains moved from Netlify to Vercel in the 90 days to Sep 23, 2026 · 407 went the other way
Switched = dropped Netlify on every host we track since May 22, 2026 and currently runs Vercel. A drop is a tag disappearing from our crawl, not a confirmed cancellation. 2,527 domains run both today. Counts are domains, not accounts.
“1,537 domains switched from Netlify to Vercel in the 90 days to Sep 23, 2026 (TechnologyChecker, https://technologychecker.io/compare/vercel-vs-netlify)”
1,537 domains switched from Netlify to Vercel in the last 90 days → See the list
10,607 domains have dropped Vercel since we began tracking it in March 2026. Most go to Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services634
Firebase232
GitHub Pages100
Supabase92Both Pro plans list at $20 a month. Vercel charges it per developer seat and includes $20 of usage credit; Netlify's covers unlimited members and 3,000 credits. On the free tiers, Vercel Hobby includes 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer a month but is for personal, non-commercial use; Netlify Free's 300 credits buy at most 15 GB of bandwidth at 20 credits per GB, or 20 production deploys at 15 credits each. (checked Sep 23, 2026)
Vercel plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | Not published | Automatic CI/CD, Web Application Firewall, global CDN, Fluid compute, DDoS mitigation, traffic and performance insightsPersonal, non-commercial use only · Usage caps; extra usage cannot be purchased · 1M edge requests and 100 GB Fast Data Transfer a month · Up to 3 custom firewall rules |
| Pro | $20/mo | Not published | $20 of included usage credit, Flat Rate CDN with traffic spike protection, spend management, team collaboration with free viewer seats, cold start prevention$20 a month per developer seat · Usage past the credit billed pay-as-you-go; $200 default on-demand budget · SAML SSO $300 a month; HIPAA BAA $350 a month |
| Enterprise | Not published | Not published | Guest and team access controls, SCIM and directory sync, managed WAF rulesets, multi-region compute and failover, 99.99% SLA, advanced supportCustom pricing |
Netlify plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Not published | Deploys from AI, Git or API, unlimited deploy previews, custom domains with SSL, functions, Netlify Database, Blob storage, firewall traffic rules and basic rate limiting, global CDN300 credits a month, a hard limit · 1 member · 1 concurrent build |
| Personal | $9/mo | Not published | Everything in Free plus smart secret detection, 1-day observability and priority email support1,000 credits a month · 1 member · Add-on credits $5 per 500 |
| Pro | $20/mo | Not published | Everything in Personal plus unlimited members, private organization repos, shared environment variables, 3 concurrent builds, 30-day analytics and metrics3,000 credits a month on the base tier; tiers up to 20,000 credits · Add-on credits $10 per 1,500 · Extra concurrent builds $40 each |
| Enterprise | Not published | Not published | 99.99% SLA, enterprise network tier, high-performance builds, SSO and SCIM, log drains, organization management, 24/7 dedicated supportCustom pricing |
| Feature | Vercel | Netlify |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Hobby: personal, non-commercial use only | Free: 300 credits a month, a hard limit |
| Entry paid plan | Pro, $20 a month per developer seat | Personal, $9 a month for 1 member |
| Team pricing | $20 a month per developer seat; viewer seats free | Pro, $20 a month for unlimited members |
| Usage model | $20 included credit on Pro, then pay-as-you-go per resource | Credits: 15 per production deploy, 20 per GB of bandwidth, 10 per GB-hour of compute |
| When usage runs out | Hobby is capped; Pro bills on, with a $200 default budget and an optional hard pause | Projects pause at the credit limit unless auto recharge is on |
| Web application firewall | Every plan; custom rules up to 3, 40 or 1,000 | Listed as limited in the pricing table; managed rulesets through an add-on |
| Database | Blob storage; no database listed on the pricing page | Netlify Database (Postgres) on every plan |
| Deployments | Unlimited deployments and instant rollback on every plan | Unlimited deploy previews and one-click rollbacks on every plan |
| Log retention | Runtime logs: 1 hour on Hobby, 1 day on Pro, 3 days on Enterprise; 30 days with Observability Plus | Functions logs: 24 hours on Free, 7 days on Personal and Pro, full history on Enterprise |
| SAML single sign-on | $300 a month add-on on Pro | Enterprise (SSO and SCIM) |
| HIPAA | BAA $350 a month on Pro | Add-on (plan not stated on the pricing page) |
| AI features | AI Gateway and Sandbox; v0 as a paid add-on | AI Gateway and Agent Runners |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% on Enterprise | 99.99% on Enterprise |
Vercel10,607Netlify4,860Vercel256,810Netlify98,949Vercel+37,482Netlify+11,662Top countries for VercelTop countries for Netlify- Sodexo UK & IrelandFacilities Services
- Northrop GrummanDefense and Space Manufacturing
- PhilipsHospitals and Health Care
- AECOM CorporationCivil Engineering
- WTW groupFinancial Services
- KW Worldwide, Ltd.Real Estate
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals CorporationPharmaceutical Manufacturing
- BupaHospitals and Health Care
- Amcor LtdPackaging and Containers Manufacturing
- Stanford MedicineHigher Education
Share of each vendor's enriched companies in the segment. A gap is a lean, not a verdict; rows under 30 companies a side or under 5 pp are marked.
By company size
Vercel65.1%Netlify67.1%Vercel21.2%Netlify19.1%Vercel6.3%Netlify5.3%Vercel2.7%Netlify2.1%Vercel0.9%Netlify0.7%By industry
Vercel9.5%Netlify6.9%Vercel6.8%Netlify6.2%Vercel7.1%Netlify4.6%Vercel3.1%Netlify3.8%Vercel3.0%Netlify3.2%Vercel2.8%Netlify2.5%How buyers rate Vercel and Netlify
G2, read Sep 23, 2026- Largest segment
- Not published
- Entry price on G2
- Free · Hobby
- Free trial
- Available
- Plans listed
- Not published
- Largest segment
- Not published
- Entry price on G2
- Free 300 credits Per Month · Free
- Free trial
- G2 has no trial information
- Plans listed
- Not published
Vercel +0.3· 71 / 68 answeredVercel9.3Netlify9.0Vercel9.4Netlify9.2Vercel9.4Netlify9.2Vercel9.3Netlify9.1Vercel8.6Netlify8.5Vercel +1.0· 19 / 26 answeredVercel9.3Netlify8.3Vercel +0.5· 63 / 61 answeredVercel9.4Netlify8.9What else G2 puts on this comparison
| Product | Rating | Reviews | Largest segment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pantheon | 4.4 / 5 | 725 | Small-Business |
| Jenkins | 4.4 / 5 | 573 | Enterprise |
| Cloudflare Application Security and Performance | 4.5 / 5 | 714 | Small-Business |
G2's shortlist and the domains have nothing in common. G2 puts Pantheon, Jenkins and Cloudflare Application Security and Performance beside this pair. The destinations we measure — Amazon Web Services, Firebase, GitHub Pages and Supabase — lead with Amazon Web Services, which G2 does not shortlist here.
G2 scores features by category only when both products are rated on a shared feature set, and it publishes none for Vercel and Netlify. The feature table above is ours, read off each vendor's own pages.
G2 also publishes an AI-generated summary and a set of generated FAQs for this pair. We link rather than reproduce them — they are machine-written, we cannot verify the claims in them, and the verdict and FAQs on this page are the editor's. Read G2's own comparison →
Vercel
What people like about Vercel. Ease of Use (10 mentions) and easy setup (9 mentions) lead its G2 topics on 86 reviews. It scores 9.4 on both ease of use and ease of setup against Netlify's 9.2. The profile data shows the buyer: 67.69% of its enriched base are companies of 1 to 10 people, and Software Development is its largest industry at 10.15%.
What people do not like. Expensive (4 mentions) and pricing issues (3 mentions). The pricing page shows where costs come from: Pro is $20 a month per developer seat, usage past the $20 credit is billed per resource, and SAML SSO adds $300 a month.
G2 has not published a summary for Vercel; we do not paraphrase individual reviews.
Netlify
What people like about Netlify. Ease of Use (21 mentions) and features (10 mentions) on 83 reviews. It scores 9.2 on ease of use and 9.0 on meets requirements. Its base in the profile data leans slightly further toward micro-companies: 71.11% have 1 to 10 people, against Vercel's 67.69%.
What people do not like. Limitations (7 mentions) and pricing issues (5 mentions). The pricing page shows how its limits work: the Free plan stops at 300 credits, and a project that reaches its credit limit pauses, taking every project on the team with it, unless auto recharge is on.
G2's own summary of the g2.com/products/netlify listing, with each topic's mention count.
Generated from real user reviews on G2
- Users appreciate the ease of use of Netlify, enabling fast deployment of front-end digital experiences effortlessly.(22 reviews)
- Users appreciate the ease of deployment on Netlify, with hosting and user-friendly interfaces for various applications.(11 reviews)
- Users praise the deployment ease of Netlify, enjoying integrations and a straightforward process for all projects.(7 reviews)
- Users love the easy and fast setup with Netlify, making website deployment efficient.(7 reviews)
- Users love the fast and easy deployment process of Netlify, enabling rapid updates and simplified hosting management.(6 reviews)
- Users face limitations in the free tier such as bandwidth caps and unclear error messages during deployment.(7 reviews)
- Users find the pricing issues concerning, especially for larger projects and corporate use.(5 reviews)
- Users find complexity for non-static websites challenging, with limitations in backend functionality.(3 reviews)
- Users find the interface cluttered and overwhelming, making navigation a challenge for beginners.(3 reviews)
- Users face resource limitations on the free plan, impacting larger projects and complicating deployment.(3 reviews)
The reviews and the switching data point the same way, on a small review panel. Vercel leads every G2 criterion, most on being a good partner in doing business (9.3 to 8.3) and product direction (9.4 to 8.9), and 1,537 domains dropped Netlify for Vercel in the 90 days to September 23, 2026, against 407 going back: a 3.8 : 1 balance, with 2,527 domains running both. Each G2 score rests on 19 to 72 responses, so the switching count, 1,944 domains that moved one way or the other, is the larger sample.
The flow runs one way, and the base sizes make it matter more to Netlify. 1,537 domains leaving Netlify for Vercel in the 90 days to September 23, 2026 is 1.0% of the 154,481 domains Netlify was detected on in August 2026; the 407 going back are 0.1% of Vercel's 389,653. Every one of the 1,537 lost every Netlify signal on every hostname we track and now carries Vercel's.
The pricing pages explain part of it and argue against the rest. Netlify is the cheaper team plan on list price: $20 a month covers unlimited members, where Vercel Pro charges $20 per developer seat. Vercel's free tier is the larger one on bandwidth, 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer against at most 15 GB from Netlify's 300 credits, but it is limited to personal, non-commercial use. Vercel's customer profile in our data lists Next.js with Tailwind CSS as its framework; whether that is why these sites moved is not something the switching data can show.
Where the crowd may be wrong: the 2,527 domains that carry both are not all undecided. Vercel is also detected from its DNS nameservers and Netlify from its scripts and CDN, so some of those domains run the two on different hostnames and some mix one platform's DNS or scripts with the other's hosting. The count measures overlap, not indecision.
How we compared · TechnologyChecker sells access to the switching lists behind this page; the numbers do not change with that.
Where this data comes from
September 2026 crawlOur detection dataFirst-party
The switching corridor, adoption curves, market shares and customer lists come from our own monthly crawl of 29.9M live business domains, detected across the full signal stack: HTTP headers, rendered DOM, JS globals, DNS, TLS and certificate transparency.
A switch is an observed change, not a survey answer: a domain dropped Vercel on every host we track and now runs Netlify. Counts are domains, not accounts. Company attributes (industry, employee band, country) come from the enriched samples named in each caption (256,810 companies for Vercel, 98,949 for Netlify).
Full detection methodology →The vendors' own pages
Pricing tables and the feature matrix are read from vercel.com and netlify.com, entered by hand and checked cell by cell by an editor. Every table names its source URL and the date it was verified.
A verification older than 90 days withdraws the page from search until an editor re-checks it, so a stale price cannot outrank a current one.
G2's published numbers
Star ratings, review counts, the seven satisfaction scores with respondent counts, segment shares and topic mention counts, as read on Sep 23, 2026. Numbers only: no review prose is reproduced, and every figure links back to G2's own comparison.
G2's comparison of this pair →Only the first column is ours alone: no other tracker publishes who is switching between Vercel and Netlify. Where the sources disagree, the page says so next to the numbers rather than averaging them.
How many sites moved from Netlify to Vercel?
1,537 domains dropped Netlify and now run Vercel in the 90 days to September 23, 2026, against 407 that moved from Vercel to Netlify. Counts are domains, not companies; a drop means the Netlify signal disappeared from every hostname of that domain we track. 2,527 domains carry both signals.
Which is more widely used, Vercel or Netlify?
Vercel, by 2.5x: 389,653 detected domains and 16.64% of the PaaS category (position #2, behind Amazon Web Services) against Netlify's 154,481 and 6.6% (position #6), as of August 2026.
Is Vercel more expensive than Netlify?
On list price for a team, yes. Both Pro plans list at $20 a month, but Vercel charges that per developer seat, while Netlify Pro covers unlimited members with 3,000 credits. Vercel Pro includes $20 of usage credit and bills pay-as-you-go beyond it; Netlify pauses projects at the credit limit unless auto recharge is on. Prices were read from both pricing pages on September 23, 2026.
Why are sites moving from Netlify to Vercel?
Our data shows the move, not the motive. What it does show: Vercel's customer profile in our data lists Next.js with Tailwind CSS as its framework, Vercel scores higher on every G2 criterion (4.7 against 4.5 overall), and the flow runs 3.8 : 1 toward Vercel over the last 90 days. Price is not the obvious driver, since Netlify's team plan is the cheaper one on list price.
Can a site use both Vercel and Netlify?
Yes: 2,527 domains carry both as of the September 2026 crawl. Vercel is detected from its response headers, its DNS nameservers or scripts served from vercel.app, and Netlify from its headers, scripts or CDN, so one domain can carry both signals: on different hostnames, or on one hostname that, for example, uses Vercel's DNS for a site Netlify serves.
Should I use Netlify or Vercel?
Pick by team size and framework. Vercel for a Next.js project, a firewall with custom rules on every plan and the higher G2 scores (4.7 against 4.5); it is also where sites are moving, with 1,537 domains leaving Netlify for Vercel in 90 days against 407 the other way. Netlify for a team that wants every member on one $20 plan, Postgres built in through Netlify Database, and spend that stops at a credit ceiling by default.
Does Netlify use Vercel?
No. They are separate, competing hosting platforms. 2,527 domains carry both signals: vercel is detected from its response headers, its DNS nameservers or scripts served from vercel.app, and Netlify from its headers, scripts or CDN, so one domain can carry both signals: on different hostnames, or on one hostname that, for example, uses Vercel's DNS for a site Netlify serves.
Is Netlify and Vercel free?
Both have a free plan. Vercel Hobby costs $0 and includes 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer and 1M edge requests a month, but is limited to personal, non-commercial use and cannot buy extra usage. Netlify Free costs $0 with a hard limit of 300 credits a month, which buys at most 15 GB of bandwidth or 20 production deploys. Both were read from the vendors' pricing pages on September 23, 2026.
Is there anything better than Vercel?
By detected domains, only Amazon Web Services is larger in PaaS, at 39.98% of the category against Vercel's 16.64% as of August 2026. Against Netlify, Vercel is gaining: Netlify lost 1,537 domains to Vercel in the 90 days to September 23, 2026, and won 407 back. On G2, Vercel scores 4.7 on 86 reviews.
Is Netlify better than Vercel?
On price for teams, yes: Netlify Pro is $20 a month for unlimited members, where Vercel charges $20 per developer seat. On reviews and momentum, no: Vercel leads every G2 criterion, most on being a good partner (9.3 against 8.3), and 1,537 domains moved from Netlify to Vercel in 90 days against 407 the other way.
Is Netlify actually free?
The Free plan is $0 with a hard monthly limit of 300 credits that cannot be exceeded or billed. Credits are spent at 15 per production deploy, 20 per GB of bandwidth and 10 per GB-hour of compute, so the plan covers at most 20 production deploys or 15 GB of bandwidth a month. When a project reaches the limit, every project on the team pauses until the next billing cycle.
Includes questions people also ask on Google for this comparison, quoted as Google shows them; the answers are ours, from the data on this page.