Our take
Pick Cloudflare if site / app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (personal / hobby) while they open a first sampled-logs row, then buy Pro at $20 / month when the zone is a professional site — or Business at $200 / month billed annually. Pick Vercel if frontend / Next.js teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (personal, non-commercial, usage caps) while they open a first Resources tab, then buy Pro at $20 / month (1
Best for
Cloudflare Edge requests you expand at $0
Vercel Functions and static files you inspect at $0
Free plan
Cloudflare $0 · / month. Personal or hobby, not business-critical
Vercel $0 · / month. Personal, non-commercial. Usage caps; cannot buy extra usage. 200 projects. 100 deployments / day. 50 domains / project. 1 hour runtime logs on the Hobby comparison we fetched
Lowest paid
Cloudflare Workers (usage) $0.30
Vercel Pro $20
Next step up
Cloudflare Pro $20
Vercel Add-ons we fetched $300
Runs where
Cloudflare Hosted
Vercel Hosted
Watch out
Cloudflare Free is hobby / not business-critical
Vercel Hobby is personal / non-commercial
Last checked
Cloudflare 2026-10-23 · cloudflare.com
Vercel 2026-10-23 · vercel.com/pricing
site / app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (personal / hobby) while they open a first sampled-logs row, then buy Pro at $20 / month when the zone is a professional site — or Business at $200 / month billed annually.
Read the Cloudflare pagefrontend / Next.js teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (personal, non-commercial, usage caps) while they open a first Resources tab, then buy Pro at $20 / month (1 deploying seat + $20 usage credit) when they need commercial use, team roles, or on-demand usage.
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