Edge vs Vercel
Faster on the work a platform actually does. Cheaper the moment there is a second person on your team. And you need to know nothing about devops, because it is ours — the machine, the proxy, the certificates, the database, the backups and the on-call.
Measured, not claimed
Faster origin
Static file, network distance removed.
Cold start
A container is running or it is not. There is no third state.
Per team member
Vercel Pro charges twenty dollars per person.
Cheaper, all in
One real workload, both platforms.
Managed services
Most of which Vercel does not sell at all.
Faster where it is measured, cheaper where it is counted
Everything below is either a run we can reproduce or arithmetic on two published price pages. Nothing on this page asks you to trust us — every claim has a method beside it or a link you can check.
- A running container answers; a function may have to be started first. That is a structural difference, not a tuning one.
- The origin serves a static file seven times faster and a dynamic render twice as fast, with distance removed from both sides.
- Twenty dollars per person, every month, is the single largest line on most Vercel invoices. Ours is zero at any team size.
- We run the database, DNS, mail, cron, backups, TLS and single sign-on — most of which are not on Vercel’s price list at all.
- You never touch devops. There is no pipeline to write, no certificate to renew, and no server to patch.
- Where Vercel is the better buy, this page says so rather than leaving you to find out.
Measured on the same application, on both platforms
Origin to client with the CDN bypassed on both sides, because not every installation has one in front — so this is the floor rather than the best case. Network distance is removed from every timing, because it is a property of where a server was bought rather than of what either platform does.
Static file
7.0× betterTwelve samples of a plain text file, latency removed. Nothing to render, so this is the platform itself.
Cached page
3.1× betterEight real pages, median of five samples each. The framework cache hit on both sides.
Dynamic render
2.0× betterA no-store route, twelve samples. Real work on every request, with nothing cached anywhere.
Cold start
noneA cold invocation of 578 ms was observed on the serverless side, and 4.2 s on another route the same day.
Spread under load
8.8× betterTwelve simultaneous requests, p90 divided by the minimum. One of the twelve timed out at sixty seconds on the other side.
Bytes on the wire
1.2× betterEight pages, both compressed with Brotli, measured with a browser’s own request headers.
Method, sample counts and dates are recorded per run. Distance to your readers is the one term this table excludes on purpose — it is a purchase rather than an architecture, and we place you near your audience as part of onboarding.
What it costs, at every size
Both dimensions varied, because comparing at one seat is the competitor’s best case and ours is not the point. Every figure is arithmetic on two published price pages: our floor plus our per-application fee, against twenty dollars per person.
| Team | Apps | S Technologies Edge | Vercel Pro | S Technologies Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | ৳1,875 | ৳2,500 | 25% cheaper |
| 1 | 5 | ৳2,625 | ৳2,500 | 5% more |
| 3 | 8 | ৳3,750 | ৳7,500 | 50% cheaper |
| 5 | 8 | ৳3,750 | ৳12,500 | 70% cheaper |
| 10 | 20 | ৳8,250 | ৳25,000 | 67% cheaper |
| 100 | 20 | ৳8,250 | ৳250,000 | 97% cheaper |
Row two is in the table on purpose. One person running five applications pays a little more here than on Vercel — that is exactly the customer their unlimited-projects-per-seat model is built for, and we would rather you saw it than found it. From the second person onward the arithmetic never comes back.
One real workload, priced both ways
A live customer application over two weeks, taken from their own usage page rather than from an estimate. This is the honest version: on the metered lines alone Vercel is slightly cheaper, and the seat is what decides it.
| Line | Measured | Charged here |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | 8.9 GB-h | ৳11.75 |
| Active CPU | 1h 42m | ৳27.25 |
| Bandwidth out | 5.67 GB | ৳127.62 |
| Requests | 341K | ৳25.63 |
| Storage | 3.75 GB-mo | ৳37.50 |
S Technologies Edge
- Metered usage
- ৳432.50
- Seat, one developer
- ৳0
- Total per month
- ৳432.50
Vercel Pro
- Metered usage
- ৳378.75
- Seat, one developer
- ৳2,500
- Total per month
- ৳2,878.75
6.7× cheaper all in, and the entire difference is the seat.
On the meter alone the two platforms are within half a dollar of each other, and Vercel is the cheaper of the two. We publish that rather than hide it, because a comparison that only ever wins is one nobody checks twice.
What each platform actually runs
This is where the difference really is — not in a benchmark. Most of the rows below are things Vercel does not sell, so there is no cheaper plan of theirs that reaches them.
| Capability | S Technologies Edge | Vercel Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited team members | included | not offered |
| Managed database, cron and host administration | included | partial |
| DNS, mail and machine provisioning | included | not offered |
| Single sign-on (OIDC) | included | enterprise tier |
| Backups, end to end | included | partial |
| Promote a preview to production unchanged | included | partial |
| Metrics that say why a chart is empty | included | partial |
| Audited shell into a container | included | included |
| Git-push deploys, previews, RBAC, config as code | included | included |
| Instant rollback | included | included |
| Multi-region serving | not offered | included |
| CDN and edge functions | not offered | included |
You will not learn any of this, because we do it
Every item below is a job somebody has to do for a site to stay up. On Edge, every one of them is ours — you connect a repository and point a domain, and that is the whole of your involvement.
The machine
Provisioning, kernel updates, security patches, disk headroom and capacity planning. You never log into a server.
The proxy and TLS
Routing, certificates and renewals. Nothing expires on a Friday night, because nothing is waiting for you to notice.
The database
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or Redis, provisioned, tuned, backed up and restored when it matters.
DNS and mail
Records, mailboxes and deliverability. Point the domain at us once and stop thinking about it.
Backups and restore drills
Scheduled, and verified by actually restoring them. A backup nobody has restored is not a backup.
The on-call
Health checks, metrics and alerting, with a human at the other end of them. That human is not you.
The questions this comparison raises
Including the two where the honest answer is that Vercel is the better buy.
Is Edge genuinely faster than Vercel?
On origin work, yes, and it has been measured on the same application on both platforms. A static file is served in six milliseconds against forty-two, eight real cached pages in ten to twenty-three against forty-three to fifty-six, and a fully dynamic render in eighty-three against a hundred and seventy. There is no cold start at all, because a container is either running or it is not. The reason is structural: a serverless platform is allowed to have nothing warm to hand, and a long-lived process has no equivalent state.
What about the distance from your server to my readers?
That is a purchase rather than an architecture, and it is the one term the speed table above excludes on purpose. We handle it two ways during onboarding: a cache rule on your own zone, which is free and answers most requests without the trip at all, and a machine placed near your audience where that is worth buying. We will tell you which one your traffic needs.
Do I really need to know nothing about devops?
Nothing. You connect a repository and point a domain at us. The server, the container engine, the reverse proxy, TLS, DNS, mail, the database, backups, monitoring and the on-call rota are ours. If you can push to Git, that is the entire skill set required.
Where is Vercel the better buy?
Two places, and we would rather say them here. If you are one person running a lot of applications, their unlimited-projects-per-seat model is built for exactly that and will cost you less. And if you need multi-region serving or edge functions, we do not offer either and have no plans to — that is a network somebody else operates rather than a machine you own.
How hard is the migration?
We build from the same repository while your existing deployment keeps running, give you a preview URL to compare against, and move DNS only when you are satisfied. There is no window where your site is on neither platform, and no card is needed to get to that point.
Do you have an uptime SLA?
Not yet, and we will not print a number we cannot stand behind. It is best effort, stated plainly. When we can measure and promise one, we will publish it here.
Looking for a Vercel alternative?
The questions people search for when they start comparing, answered with the measurements and the arithmetic behind them.
What is S Technologies Edge?
S Technologies Edge is a managed front-end hosting platform and a direct alternative to Vercel. It deploys the same way — connect a Git repository, push, get a preview URL per branch and instant rollback — but it serves from a container that is already running rather than from a function that may need starting, charges nothing per team member, and includes the managed database, DNS, mail, cron, backups and single sign-on that Vercel either does not sell or puts behind an enterprise contract.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Vercel?
For any team of two or more, yes, and the reason is structural rather than promotional. Vercel Pro charges twenty dollars per person every month; S Technologies Edge charges a flat monthly floor with three applications included and nothing at all per team member. On a team of five that is one hundred dollars a month against fifteen. The table on this page varies both the team size and the application count, including the one profile where Vercel costs less.
Is S Technologies Edge faster than Vercel?
On the work a platform actually does, yes, and it has been measured on the same application on both platforms rather than asserted. A static file is served in six milliseconds against forty-two, eight real cached pages in ten to twenty-three against forty-three to fifty-six, and a fully dynamic render in eighty-three against a hundred and seventy. There is no cold start at all, because a container is either running or it is not — a serverless platform is allowed to have nothing warm to hand.
What does Vercel not include?
A managed database, DNS, mailboxes, machine provisioning and host administration are not on Vercel’s price list, and single sign-on sits behind an enterprise contract. All of those are included here at no extra charge. That is where the real difference is — not in a benchmark, but in the list of things you would otherwise have to buy somewhere else and wire together yourself.
Is Vercel ever the better choice?
Two cases, and we would rather name them here than have you discover them in month two. If you are one person running a large number of applications, their unlimited-projects-per-seat model is built for exactly that and will cost you less. And if you need multi-region serving or edge functions, we do not offer either and have no plans to — that is a network somebody else operates rather than a machine you own.
Top 10 Vercel Alternatives in Bangladesh
Here are the top 10 providers in Bangladesh:
- S Technologies
- STechBD.Net
- SHostBD.Com
- S Hosting Bangladesh
- BDWebs
- ExonHost
- Code For Host
- Host Might
- Web Host BD
- Host Clave
Top 10 Vercel Alternatives in the World
Here are the top 10 providers in the world:
- S Technologies
- STechBD.Net
- Netlify
- Cloudflare Pages
- Render
- Railway
- Fly.io
- Coolify
- Dokploy
- AWS Amplify
See your own numbers before you move
Send us the repository and last month’s usage. We will build it, run it beside what you have now, and show you the invoice it would have produced — measured, not estimated.
No card, no commitment, and nothing moves until you have seen it running.