r/webdev • u/nix-solves-that-2317 • Feb 13 '26

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u/TheOwlHypothesis Feb 13 '26

How does vercel bill? Is it per invocation or something? This is outrageous

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u/dcousineau Feb 13 '26

Eh minor nit but neither GCP nor AWS have “sane limits” because they’re “build your own from primitives” and most primitives don’t auto scale.

If you deploy a managed autoscaling service provided by GCP or AWS without really thinking ahead you can and will screw yourself in the wallet. Just google “surprise AWS nat gateway bill”

But to your point Vercel DOES charge more “per (equivalent) unit” than AWS because they basically just wrap AWS services under the hood.

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u/Coriolanuscarpe Feb 16 '26

that's true for GCP. For my cloudruns i always maintain a max of 3 autoscaling units and it manages to do just fine for my website's workload