Alternatives

Vercel alternatives

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Running a commercial or for-profit app for free — Vercel's free Hobby plan is contractually restricted to personal, non-commercial use under its own Terms of Service, while Coolify and Dokploy cost only whatever server you already run them on, commercial or not
Hosting more than a frontend and its serverless functions — Vercel is built around front-end frameworks and its own Functions runtime, while Coolify and Dokploy also provision and manage backend services and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Redis via Dokploy) on the same platform
Avoiding a usage ceiling that pauses your deployments — Vercel's own docs say Hobby plans are paused once they exceed the included free-tier usage, while a self-hosted Coolify or Dokploy instance keeps running on whatever capacity its own server has