The full-stack Vercel alternative

Rock8Cloud vs Vercel

Vercel scales to zero. We stay always on.

Vercel is a great frontend cloud, and since mid-2026 it runs your Dockerfile too - as a stateless function that winds down when traffic stops. The always-on part of your product still needs a home: the workers, the queues, the websockets, Postgres and Redis. Rock8Cloud runs the whole stack in one place, always on, with AI code review, sandbox agents and logs & health included. 30 days free, no card.

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What lives elsewhere

$20 per developer seatMetered active CPUDatabases via partnersStateless containers onlyWinds down between requestsAI review billed per token

One platform. Push your repo and the app, API, Postgres, Redis and object storage deploy together.

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The same service, priced

One service, 1 vCPU + 2 GiB.Their meter, our number.

Vercel Fluid compute13.3€ - 93.7€/mo

From provisioned memory alone to a fully busy CPU - 2 GB at $0.0106 per GB-hour plus 1 vCPU at $0.128 per active hour

Mercury plan20€/mo flat

The flat price includes a 5€ monthly AI allowance and 100 build minutes the other bar does not.

Plus $20 a month for every developer seat.

Unlimited team members on every Rock8Cloud plan. No seat fees, no workspace fees - the plan is the whole price.

One always-on service of 1 vCPU + 2 GiB for one month - the shape of our Mercury plan. USD converted at $1 = 0.86 €, August 2026. Rates from the sources under the comparison table below.

Side by side

Request-driven functionsagainst always-on services.

Vercel prices by developer seat and metered compute, and now runs containers the same way it runs functions - stateless, request in and response out. Rock8Cloud prices by plan and keeps your services running.

Vercel

What it hosts

Frontends, functions and Dockerfiles, each a stateless request-driven process. Workers and databases live with other vendors source

The whole product - apps, APIs, workers, Postgres, Redis and object storage together

Dockerfiles

Runs any Dockerfile as a container function since mid-2026 - stateless, and instances wind down when traffic stops source

Runs your Dockerfile as an always-on service - background jobs, queues and websockets included

Pricing model

Pro is $20 per developer seat each month, compute metered on top source

Flat plan price, no seat fees. From 5€ a month

Compute

Fluid compute bills active CPU from $0.128 per hour plus provisioned memory per GB-hour source

A reserved CPU and memory pool, always on, split across your services as you like

Databases

Through marketplace partners - each one a separate vendor and a separate bill

Managed Postgres, Redis and object storage, provisioned in one click

AI code review

Vercel Agent reviews pull requests on Pro - billed per token plus inference, on top of usage source

Included on every pull request, paid from the AI allowance inside the flat plan price

Coding agents

Vercel Agent investigates issues and proposes fixes. v0 builds UIs as a separate product source

Sandbox agents build whole features - task in, pull request out, with the AI allowance in the plan

Agent context

Their agent sees the frontend and its deploys. Your workers and databases live with other vendors

One platform over MCP - the agent sees code, reviews, deploys, databases and runtime together

Hosting

US company on a global edge network

EU-hosted in German data centres, GDPR-friendly

Frontend delivery

Best-in-class edge network and preview deployments for frontend teams

We ship previews too, but the edge is their home turf. We win on everything behind it

Vercel figures as of August 2026: Pro $20 per seat per month, Fluid Active CPU from $0.128 per hour, provisioned memory from $0.0106 per GB-hour. Dockerfile support shipped mid-2026 and runs containers as stateless functions on Fluid compute. Vercel Agent code review is generally available on Pro, billed at the usage-based token rate plus inference pass-through. Vercel pricing · Dockerfile on Vercel · Vercel Agent review

Free migration

Moving off Vercel? We migrate you for free.

Our engineers move your services to Rock8Cloud with you - apps, databases, environment variables and domains. It costs nothing and there is no commitment. Tell us what you run and we bring it over together.

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Without leaving your agent

Migrate from inside your AI agent.

Rock8Cloud speaks MCP. Point your agent at it and it does the whole move - provisions Postgres and Redis, sets your config, and ships your app. That same agent reviews every PR and builds tasks in sandboxes once you're moved over. You stay in your editor, the agent does the wiring.

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Ready to ship

Bring the backend home.One platform, one bill.

Start free for 30 days, no credit card. The whole stack in one place, with AI code review, sandbox agents and logs & health included.

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Coming from Vercel? Point your agent at Rock8Cloud over MCP and it moves the rest of your stack.