Vercel charges low/mid five figures for their enterprise plans, which essentially comes with higher usage limits, some security features like SSO and IP blocking, and an uptime and support SLA. This hardly seems worth the additional cost?<p>It seems like they need a much better solution somewhere in the mid-tier--Vercel is great to get started on projects, but if you basically need to go from small project to 5 figure bill without much in between, it hardly seems to make sense to use for a project that is going to scale.
Is it expensive or genius? Ultimately, enterprise businesses can definitely afford that, so it's just down to how Vercel can differentiate between them and non-enterprise.<p>Higher usage can be purchased separately from Enterprise, not as cheap as the initial plan, but far from 5-figures: <a href="https://vercel.com/docs/limits/overview#additional-resources" rel="nofollow">https://vercel.com/docs/limits/overview#additional-resources</a><p>So really we're mostly talking about SLAs. I think "we absolutely need an SLA" seems a decent way to differentiate between small businesses and enterprise businesses.
I don't know about Vercel explicitly, but enterprise plans are usually more than just larger quotas. You get access to solutions engineers that will help you solve problems. You get higher uptime guarantees. You get SLAs like 24 or 48 hours for bug fixes that impact you. You get access to a phone support line where someone picks up immediately. Lots of stuff that reduces risk for your business and your customers. As a business, you can only offer SLAs to your customers that are as strong as the SLAs of your hosting service, so that becomes important once you get into the enterprise world.
Why don't you just use the Pro plan? The Enterprise pricing on these things is usually for peace of mind / tossing the buck to your vendor when something goes down. It primarily buys you an SLA and better support.<p>I've hosted many sites on Vercel and never noticed issues or significant downtime on any of their plans, Enterprise or Pro.<p>It seems to me that their other plans are basically loss leaders for their Enterprise offerings, but if you're a solo dev or small biz prototyping something, there is no need to go enterprise yet.
Hey, good news. We just announced improved infrastructure pricing, including reduced prices for bandwidth and functions. This should help folks scale better on Vercel as they pay on-demand.<p>Let me know if you have any questions.<p><a href="https://vercel.com/blog/improved-infrastructure-pricing" rel="nofollow">https://vercel.com/blog/improved-infrastructure-pricing</a>
Because we, React developers, let them do it, unfortunately. The scam about Vercel controlling React development was done entirely for this, create a new cash cow.
It’s a VC fueled project around something you can set up in a few hours if you took a few hours to learn. Imo.<p>But for large companies making millions or billions it’s a convenience that saves engineering costs.
Yeah it really feels like once your hobby project actually starts making some money, they start charging you insane amounts to compensate the millions of other hobby projects they host that haven’t made a dime yet…
What extras do you need from Vercel when deploying a basic react app? In theory all you need is an html hosting service if you don’t use any of the fancy react featured…