Vercel comparisons
Vercel is compared head-to-head with IBM DevOps Deploy, AWS CodeDeploy and Google Cloud Deploy and more: 7 head-to-heads in Deployment Automation Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Vercel head-to-head
- Vercel vs IBM DevOps Deploy
- Vercel vs AWS CodeDeploy
- Vercel vs Google Cloud Deploy
- Vercel vs Harness Continuous Delivery
- Vercel vs Octopus Deploy
- Vercel vs Netlify
- Vercel vs Heroku
Vercel vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment targets | Deployment rollback | Approval gates | Concurrent deployments | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Vercel | Yes | $20/user/mo | web applications, websites, serverless functions, edge network, fluid compute, containers | Yes | Yes | 1 deployments | 8.7 |
| 1 | IBM DevOps Deploy | No | Mainframe (IBM Z), distributed systems, public/private/hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, target servers and multi-node environments | Yes | Yes | 9.3 | ||
| 2 | AWS CodeDeploy | Yes | $0.02/device usage-based | Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, Amazon ECS services (EC2 and Fargate), and on-premises instances | Yes | 9.2 | ||
| 3 | Google Cloud Deploy | Yes | Google Kubernetes Engine, GKE attached clusters, Cloud Run, custom targets | Yes | Yes | 9.1 | ||
| 4 | Harness Continuous Delivery | Yes | Kubernetes, serverless, multi-cloud, on-premises virtual machines, mainframes, managed agent runtimes, edge devices, proprietary platforms | Yes | Yes | 60 deployments | 8.9 | |
| 5 | Octopus Deploy | Yes | $2,080/yr | Kubernetes, Windows, Linux, Azure, AWS, GCP, cloud regions, containers, virtual machines, serverless functions, SSH, offline package drops | Yes | Yes | 5 deployments | 8.8 |
| 7 | Netlify | Yes | $9/mo | global CDN; serverless functions; edge functions | Yes | Yes | 1 deployments | 8.6 |
| 8 | Heroku | No | $5/unit/mo | managed dynos, Common Runtime, Private Spaces, Shield Private Spaces, Fir | Yes | 8.5 |
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