Vercel

vercel.com · Walnut Cove, United States of America

Vercel is a cloud platform for frontend developers that provides hosting, serverless functions, and edge infrastructure optimized for frameworks like Next.js and other modern JavaScript frameworks. It serves developers and digital product teams at startups and enterprises, monetizing through usage-based and subscription plans for its managed deployment, collaboration, and performance tooling. The company focuses on simplifying the build, preview, and ship workflow for web applications.

  • Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting
  • No-Code & Low-Code Platforms
  • API Management & Integration
Revenue
$160.0M
Employees
900
Founded
2015
Headquarters
Walnut Cove, United States of America

What 152 Arbolus experts think of Vercel

NPS distribution is strongly positive with over 50% of users rating 9 or 10, driven by deployment simplicity and developer experience. Most experts anticipate stable or increasing annual spend, reflecting satisfaction with value delivered relative to cost. Sentiment is highest among those with frequent releases and needs for fast prototyping. The majority have implemented Vercel in core workflows for public sites and internal tools, often citing it as critical for efficient delivery. Challenges include cost predictability and occasional vendor lock-in concerns, especially as workloads scale.Overall Customer Sentiment: Positive

Who reviewed Vercel

Total customers 152 146 current · 6 former
Reviews growth +106 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 63% (96)
  • Director 20% (30)
  • Manager 18% (27)
Executive C-Suite NPS 9 Will renew
Design Executive C-Suite NPS 7 Undecided
Engineering Engineer Manager NPS 10 Will renew

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Sentiment

48 Net Promoter Score, from 152 scored reviews
  • Promoters 85
  • Passives 55
  • Detractors 12

Cumulative NPS by month

+0 over 6 months
  • May 8
  • Jun 9
  • Jul 9
  • Aug 9
  • Sep 8
  • Oct 8

Net Promoter Score across 9 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 50 across 9 companies.

Praised

  • Developer Experience Excellence
  • Seamless Fast Deployment
  • Reliability and Rapid Iteration
  • AI-Enhanced End-to-End Platforms

Criticised

  • Enterprise Scalability & Governance
  • Cost Predictability Challenge
  • Vendor Lock-In and Feature Limits
  • Cloud Provider Substitution

What customers say

Developer Experience Excellence
“The developer experience is the best I have used; deployment stops being a task and every branch gets a live URL, streamlining our whole review process.”
Seamless Fast Deployment
“I push a branch and get a preview URL in about a minute—no servers, no config, and rollback is just one click.”
Reliability and Rapid Iteration
“Vercel's uptime, hosting and deployment have been extremely reliable, making it a key part of our website and critical business workflows.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 74%
  • Will renew 53
  • Undecided 15
  • Not renewing 4

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 71% 41 answers
  • Director 76% 17 answers
  • Manager 75% 8 answers
  • Not specified 83% 6 answers
  • 8.9/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 7.7/10 Average score from undecided customers
  • 4.8/10 Average score from customers not renewing

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