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Vercel
Frontend cloud platform for deploying and hosting web apps, with strong Next.js support.
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Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹1,943/user/mo
For a registered business, $20/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist Vercel if your team builds on Next.js or another modern frontend framework and wants Git push deploys, previews and a global CDN without running servers. Before paying, count how many people need to deploy, because each deploying seat is charged while viewers are free, and set a spend limit since functions, image optimization and storage are billed by usage above the monthly credit.
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Bills come in US dollars on a card, and Vercel has not said publicly that it issues Indian GST invoices, so check with them if you need input tax credit. Against Netlify or Cloudflare Pages the trade-off is the best Next.js support and polish versus a bill that is harder to predict at scale.
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In short
Vercel is listed under Developer Tools, reviewed for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹1,943/user/mo for a GST-registered business ($20/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). FindThatSoftware rates it best for frontend teams deploying web apps; a poor fit for media heavy sites that rely on large image or file workloads, since image optimization and storage stay metered per unit.
What Vercel costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per user per month
₹1,943
Vercel advertises $20/user/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹1,943 a month (₹23,315/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹2,293 a month.
- Sticker price
- $20/user/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per user per month
- ₹1,943
- Registered per user per year
- ₹23,315
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹2,293
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Prices are in US dollars, billed monthly on a card, with no annual plan for self serve teams.
More
Pro is a monthly platform fee that includes one deploying seat and an equal usage credit; extra deploying seats, add-ons like SAML SSO, and usage above the credit are charged on top, and tax is added where Vercel is registered to collect it. Credits expire each month and are non-refundable, and the default spend alert sits well above the base fee, so set a hard limit if you want a fixed bill.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho Vercel fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is Vercel?
Vercel is a cloud hosting platform run by Vercel Inc., a US company, built around web frameworks such as Next.js, which it also maintains. You connect a GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket repository and every push builds and deploys automatically, with a preview URL for each branch and a global CDN, firewall and serverless functions included. Beyond hosting it sells storage (Blob), observability, durable workflows, sandboxes and an AI Gateway, all billed by usage. The free Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial projects only and has hard caps; commercial work needs Pro or Enterprise.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Hobby is free for personal projects with a CDN, firewall, serverless functions and automatic Git deploys included.
- Spend management lets you set a budget with email and SMS alerts and optionally pause all projects when the limit is hit.
- Pro includes a flat rate CDN tier, so a traffic spike on a single day does not change the CDN part of the bill.
The catch
- Billing is in US dollars only and Vercel does not publicly confirm Indian GST invoices or GSTIN entry, so input tax credit is uncertain.
- Each deploying team member is an extra paid seat on Pro, so costs grow with the size of the engineering team, not just traffic.
- Functions, image optimization, storage and many other resources are metered separately above the monthly credit, which makes the bill hard to forecast.
- Hobby cannot be used commercially and has no paid overage, so a limit hit pauses that feature for up to 30 days.
Best for
- Frontend teams deploying web apps
- Next.js projects
- Teams wanting preview deploys and global CDN delivery
Who should avoid it
- Media heavy sites that rely on large image or file workloads, since image optimization and storage stay metered per unit.
- Indian teams that need a rupee invoice or confirmed GST input credit, because charges land in dollars on a card.
India readiness
How well Vercel fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- –GST invoice
Not verified yet.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
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What we verified about Vercel
Read from Vercel’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What Vercel does
Features we confirmed26
- Webhook triggers
- Webhook triggers gated to Pro and above, unavailable on Hobby
- Web analytics
- Web Analytics billed at 3 dollars per 100K events on Pro
- Serverless functions
- Function invocations and Active CPU are metered resources on every plan
- SSO SAML
- SAML SSO available on Pro as a paid add-on and included on Enterprise
- Domain registration
- Terms of Service contain a dedicated domain registration schedule and renewal handling
- Blob object storage
- Blob storage priced at 0.023 dollars per GB on Pro
- Bulk redirects
- Bulk redirects sold at 50 dollars per month per 25K on Pro
- Cold start prevention
- Cold start prevention listed as a Pro plan feature
- Cron jobs
- Cron jobs listed among features included on all plans
- Custom environments
- Pro includes 1 custom environment, Enterprise 12, Hobby none
- Custom firewall rules
- Custom firewall rules capped at 3 on Hobby, 40 on Pro, 1000 on Enterprise
- Edge network cdn
- Global CDN and edge request metering listed as included on all plans
- Git push to deploy
- Automatic CI/CD builds and deploys on every git push, listed as included on all plans
- Image optimization transformations
- Image transformations metered at 5K per month on Hobby, image cache writes billed separately
- IP blocking
- IP blocking limited to 3 entries on the Hobby tier
- Isr incremental static regeneration
- ISR reads and ISR writes are separately metered billing lines
- Multi region compute failover
- Multi-region compute and failover listed as an Enterprise-only capability
- Observability plus
- Observability Plus starts at 1.20 dollars per 1M events on Pro
- Password protected deployments
- Advanced Deployment Protection sold at 150 dollars a month on Pro
- Per pull request preview deployments
- Preview deployment per pull request ships on all tiers including free Hobby
- Speed insights rum
- Speed Insights sold at 10 dollars per project per month on Pro
- Spend management with auto pause
- Advanced spend management on Pro with a default 200 dollar on-demand budget, alerts and optional auto pause
- Static outbound ips
- Static IPs offered at 100 dollars per project per month on Pro
- V0 AI app generator
- v0 AI agent offered as a paid add-on for Pro and Enterprise
- Vercel agent AI code review
- Vercel Agent billed at 0.30 dollars per action plus token costs
- Web application firewall
- WAF and DDoS mitigation are listed as included on every plan
What people use it for1
- Share preview links with stakeholders
- Per-pull-request preview deployments exist so reviewers can see changes before merge
Works with2
- Github
- Git-based automatic CI/CD is the core deployment workflow
- Nextjs
- Next.js is the framework Vercel builds and gives first-party support
Terms, compliance and how you buy32
- Unpredictable monthly bill
- Our research records a documented 1,477 dollar invoice after a crawler pulled about 8.4 TB
- Self serve signup
- Hobby and Pro are bought by card without a sales conversation
- Class action waiver
- Terms contain an explicit class action waiver with an opt-out clause
- Cancel anytime
- Terms grant the right to terminate the account or downgrade Pro at will
- Auto renewal default
- Terms state self-service subscriptions renew automatically for successive equal terms unless cancelled before the renewal date
- 99 99 uptime sla enterprise only
- The 99.99 percent SLA is listed only under the Enterprise plan
- Audit logs enterprise only
- Audit logs are gated behind the Enterprise plan
- Binding arbitration clause
- Terms include exclusive jurisdiction, arbitration procedures and a mass-arbitration notice
- Bot traffic billed as real traffic
- Crawler and attack traffic bills at the same metered rate as human traffic
- California governing law
- Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California
- Deployment protection priced as addon
- Advanced Deployment Protection is a 150 dollar monthly Pro add-on, not bundled
- Developer audience
- The whole product surface is git workflows, functions and framework tooling for engineers
- Downgrade effective next renewal
- Terms state a downgrade does not take effect until the next renewal date
- Expensive for media heavy sites
- Fast data transfer meters at 0.15 dollars per GB so large video or image payloads move the invoice
- Free tier hard caps no overage
- Hobby cannot buy usage beyond included allowances, so hitting a limit pauses the deployment
- Free viewer seats
- Pro includes unlimited free viewer seats alongside paid developer seats
- Generous free tier
- Hobby includes 1M edge requests, 100GB transfer and 1M invocations at zero cost
- GST collected only since april 2026
- Our research notes Vercel began collecting GST for international customers only from 1 April 2026
- HIPAA BAA paid addon
- HIPAA BAA support offered to Pro at 350 dollars per month rather than included
- Hobby tier non commercial
- Hobby is positioned as a personal plan separate from the paid Pro tier
- Managed waf rulesets enterprise only
- Managed WAF rulesets are gated to the Enterprise tier only
- Monthly usage credit included
- Pro plans include a 20 dollar monthly usage credit against metered spend
- Next js vendor
- Vercel is the company behind Next.js, so framework support is first-party
- No india region guarantee on lower tiers
- Multi-region compute and failover are Enterprise-only, so lower tiers cannot pin regional compute
- No INR billing
- Terms state payments shall be made in the currency of the United States
- Non refundable fees
- Terms state all fees are non-refundable except where expressly stated
- Per resource overage billing
- Six distinct overage rates published, from 0.15 dollars per GB transfer to 4 dollars per 1M ISR writes
- Per seat plus usage pricing
- Pro is 20 dollars per developer seat per month on top of metered usage
- Scim directory sync enterprise only
- Directory Sync via SCIM is listed as Enterprise only
- SSO priced as paid addon
- SAML SSO costs 300 dollars a month on Pro rather than being bundled
- Usage based metering
- Edge requests, transfer, CPU, invocations and ISR each meter and overage separately
- Usd billed
- Terms require all payments in United States currency, so Indian cards take forex markup
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- Vercel Flat Rate CDN docshttps://vercel.com/docs/pricing/flat-rate-cdn
- Vercel pricinghttps://vercel.com/pricing
- Vercel Pro plan docshttps://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan
- Vercel taxes FAQhttps://vercel.com/docs/pricing/taxes
- Vercel Hobby plan docshttps://vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby
- Vercel Pro trial docshttps://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan/trials
- Vercelhttps://vercel.com/
- Vercel terms of servicehttps://vercel.com/legal/terms
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Vercel questions
Does Vercel give a GST invoice in India?
- Whether Vercel issues an India GST invoice is not verified yet. Foreign-billed tools usually don't, in which case a registered business reclaims GST via reverse charge; confirm the vendor's billing before you buy.
Is Vercel good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits frontend teams deploying web apps. It bills in a foreign currency, so expect the card forex markup on every charge. It is not the right pick for media heavy sites that rely on large image or file workloads, since image optimization and storage stay metered per unit.
Does Vercel have a free plan?
- Vercel lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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