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Why we left Vercel — cost and lock-in

Vercel made deployment magical. Then the bill landed. We moved 8 projects to Cloudflare Pages, saved 70%.

Vercel free tier is generous. Pro at $20/mo per seat is fine. Production usage past 1TB bandwidth — that's where the math breaks.

For a typical content site: $300-500/mo on Vercel, $20-30/mo on Cloudflare Pages with similar performance.

The lock-in: Vercel-specific functions (Edge Functions, Cron, KV) don't port. Migration meant rewriting infra glue.

Final stack: Cloudflare Pages + Workers for dynamic, R2 for storage, Postgres on Neon. Bills dropped, velocity unchanged.

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