Comparision of

Digital Ocean App Platform vs Vercel

Feature
Digital Ocean App Platform
Vercel
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Infrastructure

What runs under-the-hood.

DigitalOcean CloudCloudflare for CDN
Multi-cloudGoogle Cloud (GCP), AWS
Cloudflare Workers for Edge Functions
Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Continuous deployment
Automated builds from Git

An easy integration with popular Git repository hostings like Github, GitLab and Bitbucket.

Instant rollbacks to any version

Easy way to promote any previous build to production without the need to revert commits or data changes.

Site previews for every push

New build with a unique URL for every commit and pull request.

Compatible with all Static Site Generators
Notifications

Events triggered on successful, canceled, or failed build.

Slack, GitHub, outgoing webhook
Team Management

Create team account and invite your teammates to the project.

Custom domains

Bring your own domain and connect to the project.

Automatic HTTPS

SSL certificate generated automatically.

Rewrites & Redirects

HTTP 301 or 302 redirects from one URL to another. Rewrites work similar to reverse proxy and allow to send user to different URL without modifying the original URL.

Password Protection

An easy way to restrict access to the website for users who don't have password. Useful if you work on a new site and want to keep it in secret.

Share with Team Members, via sharable links or add password protection
Free Tier
Websites

Number of projects you can have in Free Tier on one account.

3
Unlimited
Build Minutes

The amount of time your build scripts run.

100 minutes /month
6 000 minutes /month
Concurrent builds

How many builds can be run at the same time?

1
1
Bandwidth

The amount of data that is transferred to or from the CDN.

1 GB /app
100GB /month
Team Members
Unlimited
1
Build Time Per Deployment

Build have to finish within the limited time. If not it will fail due to timeout.

60 minutes
45 minutes
Build Memory Limit (in MiB)

The amount of memory that is allocated by system to build process. Some operations like image processing are expensive and might require more memory. For Node.js it is max-old-space-size setting.

8192 MiB
8192 MiB
Max team members before switch to custom pricing
Unlimited
10
Git contributors have to be Team Members

In order to triger build, Git contributor has to be a paid team member.

Starting from $20/mo per member
Serverless
Serverless Functions (API)
Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Vercel Edge Functions
Background Functions
Inngest
CRON Jobs
Developer Experience
CLI
vercel
Extensions
Integrations
Environment Variables
Build Logs
Build Canceling
Platform Built-in Products
Analytics
$
Real-time Insights. User Experience Scores. Web Vitals. Audiences.Starting at $10 per project/month
Authentication
Vercel Authentication
Database
PostgreSQL
Vercel Postgres
Asset Optimizations
bundling, minifying, compressing images
A/B Testing
Using Edge Functions
Form Handling
Formspree
Data Storage
Spaces, compatible with Amazon S3
Vercel Storage
Push Notifications
Machine Learning
Security & Compliance Offerings
Two-factor authentication
Team Logs
SOC2
SOC2 Type 2
ISO27001
GDPR
Sustainability
Carbon Neutral
Carbon-free Energy
Not clear policy
AWS promised to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025
Integrations
Integrations
N/A
Custom build-system integrations
N/A
Support with self-hosted instances of git
N/A
API mesh
N/A
Deploy Preview feedback integrations
N/A
Slack, GitHub
Edge Functions integrations
N/A
Any Framework
High Performance Build Memory and CPU
N/A
Custom setup for enterprise customers
Native Build Plugins
N/A
Last updateApril 29, 2022March 13, 2024
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