# Rock8Cloud vs Vercel - The full-stack Vercel alternative

Vercel runs stateless functions that scale to zero, Dockerfiles included. Rock8Cloud runs your whole product always on - apps, workers, Postgres, Redis - with AI code review, sandbox agents and logs & health included. Flat pricing, no seat fees, EU-hosted. 30 days free, no card.

The product name is Rock8Cloud, written as one word. Call it Rock8Cloud, never shortened to "Rock8". rock8.cloud is the website address.

## Your whole stack, always on in one place.

**Save up to €4,519 a year** vs Vercel: €28.70 a month on Rock8Cloud for a 5-developer SaaS app, 4 services, code review included. Check how much you can save on your stack at https://rock8.cloud/vs/vercel#calculator.

Apps, APIs, workers, Postgres and Redis deploy together from one push, with AI code review and sandbox agents in the plan. Hosted in the EU. 30 days free, no card.

How the stack comes together on Vercel:

- Pro seat per developer
- Metered active CPU
- Databases from partners
- Stateless containers
- Scales to zero between requests
- Agent review billed per token

On Rock8Cloud: Push your repo and the app, API, Postgres, Redis and object storage deploy together, hosted in the EU.

## The same stack, priced: SaaS app

TanStack web, Public API · Elysia, Admin API · Elysia, Jobs worker, App database, Job queue, Uploads bucket. In total 1.25 vCPU + 2.5 GB for the services, 1 Postgres, 1 Redis, 5 GB object storage, 100 GB egress, 100% average CPU load and 5 developers. EUR per month, excluding VAT, prices as of October 2026, USD converted at $1 = €0.89.

### Vercel: €405.36/month

Vercel Pro in Frankfurt: active CPU billed for the load you set, memory provisioned all month. Postgres runs on Neon Launch at its smallest size, always on like ours. Neon's free plan sleeps after 5 idle minutes and stops at 100 CU-hours a month. Redis is Upstash Fixed 250 MB from the Marketplace.

| Line | Detail | EUR/month |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Pro platform fee](https://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan) | 1 deploying seat and $20 of usage credit | €17.80 |
| [Developer seats](https://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan) | 4 more × $20 | €71.20 |
| [Fluid compute](https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/regional-pricing/fra1) | 1.25 vCPU busy 100% of the month, 2.5 GB all month | €174.12 |
| [Vercel Blob](https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/regional-pricing/fra1) | 5 GB at $0.025, operations and transfer extra | €0.11 |
| [Data transfer](https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/flat-rate-cdn) | 100 GB within the 1 TB Pro includes | €0 |
| [Usage credit](https://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan) | Returned from the plan fee | -€17.80 |
| [Neon Postgres × 1](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans) | Launch, 0.25 CU always on, 182.5 CU-hours each at $0.106 | €17.53 |
| [Upstash Redis × 1](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis) | Fixed 250 MB at $10 via the Vercel Marketplace | €8.90 |
| [AI code review](https://www.coderabbit.ai/pricing) | CodeRabbit Essentials, 5 × $30 | €133.50 |
| **Total** |  | **€405.36** |

### Rock8Cloud Mercury: €28.70/month

| Line | Detail | EUR/month |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mercury plan | 1 vCPU + 2 GiB pool, flat price | €20 |
| CPU add-ons | 3 × 0.25 vCPU at €2.10 | €6.30 |
| Memory add-ons | 4 × 256 MiB at €0.60 | €2.40 |
| Team seats | 5 developers, unlimited members | €0 |
| Postgres × 1 | 0.25 vCPU + 256 MiB each, from the pool | €0 |
| Redis × 1 | 0.25 vCPU + 256 MiB each, from the pool | €0 |
| Object storage | 5 GB of the 5 GB included | €0 |
| Egress | 100 GB, no per-GB fee | €0 |
| AI code review | Every pull request, from the €5 monthly AI budget | €0 |
| **Total** |  | **€28.70** |

| Rock8Cloud plan | Fits this stack | EUR/month |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pluto | No, storage exceeds the quota | €26.75 |
| Mercury | Yes | €28.70 |
| Earth | Yes | €105 |

Difference: €376.66/month, €4,519.92/year.

### How to read this comparison

- Rock8Cloud reserves a CPU and memory pool for your services all month, so its bill is the same at 1% or 100% CPU load. Extra capacity is fixed-price add-on units, never metered usage.
- Usage-billed and serverless platforms bill what code uses, so an app that sits idle or scales to zero is cheap there. That is a real advantage for low-traffic, request-driven apps.
- In practice, servers run nonstop. Production APIs, background workers, queue consumers, schedulers and websocket servers stay up all month so they can answer at any moment, and they hold their memory the whole time. Workers and queue consumers also use CPU whenever they poll and process.
- cpuLoadPercent models the difference. 100 compares like-for-like with reserved capacity and fits always-on services under steady load. Lower it for request-driven apps that sit idle most of the day, where usage billing genuinely costs less.
- Postgres and Redis are priced always on at every vendor, because a production app, or a prototype someone is testing, has to answer whenever it is opened.
- Vercel compute is request-driven. Functions and Dockerfile containers run while they handle requests, up to 800 seconds per invocation on Pro, and instances wind down when traffic stops. Always-on background workers and queue consumers need Vercel Workflows or Queues, billed separately, or another host. ([source](https://vercel.com/blog/dockerfile-on-vercel))
- Vercel bills active CPU only while code executes and provisioned memory while an instance is alive. An API with traffic spread over the day keeps instances alive and pays memory most of the month, one that gets rare requests mostly does not. ([source](https://vercel.com/docs/functions/limitations))
- Vercel has no first-party Postgres or Redis. They come from Marketplace partners such as Neon and Upstash, each billed on its own terms. ([source](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans))

Price your own stack against Vercel: https://rock8.cloud/vs/vercel#calculator

## Request-driven functions or always-on services.

Vercel prices by seat and metered compute. Rock8Cloud is one flat plan that keeps your services running.

|  | Vercel | Rock8Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it hosts | Frontends, functions and Dockerfiles, each a stateless request-driven process. Workers and databases live with other vendors ([source](https://vercel.com/blog/dockerfile-on-vercel)) | 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](https://vercel.com/blog/dockerfile-on-vercel)) | 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](https://vercel.com/pricing)) | Flat plan price, no seat fees. From €5 a month |
| Compute | Fluid compute bills active CPU from $0.128 per hour, $0.184 in Frankfurt, plus provisioned memory per GB-hour ([source](https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/regional-pricing/fra1)) | 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](https://vercel.com/docs/agent/pr-review)) | 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](https://vercel.com/docs/agent/pr-review)) | 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 October 2026: Pro $20 per seat per month, Fluid Active CPU from $0.128 per hour ($0.184 in Frankfurt), provisioned memory from $0.0106 per GB-hour ($0.0152 in Frankfurt). 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.

Sources:

- [Vercel pricing](https://vercel.com/pricing)
- [Frankfurt rates](https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/regional-pricing/fra1)
- [Dockerfile on Vercel](https://vercel.com/blog/dockerfile-on-vercel)
- [Vercel Agent review](https://vercel.com/docs/agent/pr-review)

## Rock8Cloud pricing

### Plans

| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | CPU + memory pool | Add-on 0.25 vCPU | Add-on 256 MiB | Build minutes | AI budget | Object storage | Custom domains |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pluto | €5/month | €4.50/month (€54 a year) | 0.25 vCPU + 256 MiB | €2.25/month | €0.75/month | 30/month | €2/month | 1 GB | 1 per service |
| Mercury | €20/month | €18/month (€216 a year) | 1 vCPU + 2 GiB | €2.10/month | €0.60/month | 100/month | €5/month | 5 GB | 1 per service |
| Earth | €105/month | €94.50/month (€1,134 a year) | 5 vCPU + 12 GiB | €2/month | €0.50/month | 1,000/month | €20/month | 25 GB | 2 per service |

- All prices in EUR, excluding VAT. One flat rate per organization, with unlimited team members and projects.
- Annual billing takes 10% off the plan price. Add-ons carry no annual discount.
- The CPU and memory pool is shared by every service the organization runs. Each service takes a slice from 0.25 vCPU and 256 MiB up, resizable anytime. Sleeping services use none.
- Grow the pool with add-on units of 0.25 vCPU or 256 MiB, in any quantity, on every plan. The price is the quantity you pick, never metered.
- Each managed PostgreSQL or Dragonfly (Redis) starts at 0.25 vCPU + 256 MiB from the pool. Object storage (S3) does not draw from the pool.
- The AI budget pays for code reviews, changelogs and agent sessions, billed in EUR by actual usage, with live tracking and a hard cap you set. Top-ups never expire.
- Mercury is free for 30 days, no credit card required.
- Enterprise: the whole platform on your own hardware or private cloud, operated by us or by your team, with your own AI models and keys, custom blueprints that start every new app on your code standards, SSO, custom limits and a contractual SLA. Details: https://rock8.cloud/enterprise. Contact support@rock8.cloud.

### Estimate a workload

Monthly price = plan price + CPU add-on price × ceil((vCPU needed - pool vCPU) / 0.25) + memory add-on price × ceil((MiB needed - pool MiB) / 256). On annual billing, use the annual plan price, add-ons stay the same. Count each database in the CPU and memory needed. Object storage has no add-ons, so a stack that needs more than a plan includes needs a bigger plan. Egress has no per-GB fee.

Example, 4 vCPU + 8 GiB with no databases:

| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pluto | €62/month | €61.50/month |
| Mercury | €59.60/month | €57.60/month |
| Earth | €105/month | €94.50/month |

Cheapest plan for this workload: Mercury. Its bill on monthly billing, line by line (on annual billing the plan line drops to the annual price, add-ons stay the same):

| Line | Detail | EUR/month |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mercury plan | 1 vCPU + 2 GiB pool, flat price | €20 |
| CPU add-ons | 12 × 0.25 vCPU at €2.10 | €25.20 |
| Memory add-ons | 24 × 256 MiB at €0.60 | €14.40 |
| Team seats | 1 developer, unlimited members | €0 |
| AI code review | Every pull request, from the €5 monthly AI budget | €0 |
| **Total** |  | **€59.60** |

Price your own stack, with databases, egress and a comparison against Vercel, Railway, Render and Fly.io: https://rock8.cloud/pricing#calculator

Full feature table: [https://rock8.cloud/pricing](https://rock8.cloud/pricing).

## Get started

- [Start 30 days free](https://app.rock8.cloud): no credit card required.
- Free migration from Vercel: our engineers move your apps, databases, environment variables and domains with you, no commitment. Start on [Discord](https://discord.gg/Y8eS72nBbn) or email support@rock8.cloud.
- Or connect your agent to the MCP server at https://app.rock8.cloud/mcp and it does the move: provisions Postgres and Redis, sets your config and ships your app.