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DigitalOcean App Platform vs Vercel

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

DigitalOcean App Platform

$60/yr

75% less than Vercel

Who has a free plan
  • DigitalOcean App Platformhas a free plan
  • Vercelhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Vercel

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, DigitalOcean App Platform wins. If you would rather build it, Vercel is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONDigitalOcean App PlatformHostingVercelHosting
Monthly billing$5/moShared container$20/moPro
Per year$60/yr$240/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionPer person
Free tierup to 3 static-only apps, each with 1 GiB outbound transfer/monthPersonal/non-commercial use: 1 developer, 1M edge requests/month, 100 GB transfer, 1M function invocations and 4 active CPU hours/month.
Additional costsExtra static-only apps are $3/month; outbound overage is $0.02/GiB; development databases start at $7/month without backups; a dedicated egress-IP pair costs $25/app/month. Billing covers the first 28 days after component creation, and some rename/recreate operations can restart metering.Pro overages include $2 per additional 1M edge requests and $0.15/GB transfer after included usage; new teams have a default $200 on-demand budget unless a hard limit is set. Add-ons include SAML SSO $300/month, HIPAA BAA $350/month, Advanced Deployment Protection $150/month, Static IP $100/project/month, Preview URL Suffix $100/month, extra microfrontend projects $250/month, Web Analytics Plus $10/month and Speed Insights $10/project/month.
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sittingWith trade-offsmulti-day
Free alternatives+1
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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The free plan compares up to 2 apps. Pro compares up to 4. See plans →

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