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SmolClouds vs Vercel
Vercel is built around frontend frameworks and a serverless function model. SmolClouds runs whole long-lived applications that happen to sleep.
What Vercel is good at
- •Next.js and frontend frameworks, deeply integrated
- •Edge delivery, previews and a large CDN footprint
- •Stateless request/response workloads
What SmolClouds optimises for
- •Whole applications with in-process state that survives between requests
- •microVM isolation rather than a function sandbox
- •Internal tools and APIs that are not public websites
Choose Vercel when
You are shipping a public frontend.
Choose SmolClouds when
You are shipping an internal app that behaves like a small server.
A note on numbers
We do not publish cost or latency comparisons against other platforms until we have a benchmark we can describe and you can reproduce. When those exist they will appear here with their method attached.
Build as much small software as you want.
Deploy the first one in a couple of minutes. It sleeps when nobody is using it.