Vercel vs Temporal

Frontend cloud for Next.js and modern web frameworks
vs. Durable execution platform for mission-critical workflows

Vercel website ↗Temporal website ↗

Pricing tiers

Vercel

Hobby (Free)

Free forever. 100 GB bandwidth, 1M functions, 360 GB-hrs memory, 1M edge requests. 1 developer. Hard caps.

Free

Pro

$20/user/month. 1 TB bandwidth, pay-as-you-go overages. Team seats, concurrent builds.

$20/mo

Enterprise

Custom pricing. SLA, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support.

Custom

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Temporal

Self-Hosted (OSS)

Free forever. MIT license. Run the Temporal cluster yourself on K8s/Docker.

$0 base (usage-based)

Cloud (usage-based)

Temporal Cloud. Pay per action ($25 per 1M actions base). Active user + storage also billed.

$0 base (usage-based)

Business Plan

Starts ~$100/mo commit. Multi-region, SSO, priority support.

Custom

Enterprise

Custom. HIPAA, PCI, dedicated clusters, enterprise SLA.

Custom

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Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing hobby on Vercel vs oss on Temporal.

Metric	Vercel	Temporal
bandwidth gb month	100 GB/month	—
edge requests	1000000 requests/month	—
function invocations	1000000 invocations/month	—
memory gb hrs	360 GB-hrs/month	—
team members	1 users	—

Features

Vercel · 15 features

Cron Jobs — Scheduled serverless functions. JSON config in vercel.json.
Edge Functions — V8-isolate serverless functions at edge locations. Lower cold start than Lambda.
Edge Middleware — Intercept requests at edge before hitting origin — auth, routing, A/B tests.
Git-based Deploys — Auto-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket on every push. Preview URLs for every…
Image Optimization — On-the-fly resize, format conversion (AVIF, WebP), CDN caching.
Incremental Static Regeneration — Re-generate static pages on-demand or via revalidate. Next.js-native.
Log Drains — Stream logs to Datadog, Axiom, Logtail, HTTP endpoints.
Preview Deployments — Unique URL per Git branch/PR. Password-protect or share. Infinite.
Serverless Functions — Node.js, Python, Go. AWS Lambda under the hood. Up to 15 min duration.
Speed Insights — Real User Monitoring. FCP, LCP, CLS, INP per page.
Vercel Blob — Managed object storage (S3-compatible API).
Vercel KV (Redis) — Managed Redis via Upstash. Edge-accessible.
Vercel Marketplace — One-click integrations: Supabase, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, Resend, 100+ services.
Vercel Postgres — Managed Neon Postgres. Edge-accessible with @vercel/postgres.
Web Analytics — Privacy-friendly web analytics. Core Web Vitals, visitors, pages.

Temporal · 16 features

Activities — Retryable units of work.
Activity Retries — Declarative retry policies.
Child Workflows — Nested workflow composition.
Continue-As-New — Close + restart workflow to prune history.
Nexus (cross-namespace) — Call workflows across namespaces/teams.
Queries — Synchronous read of workflow state.
Saga / Compensations — Rollback pattern via compensating activities.
Schedules — Cron-like recurring workflows.
Self-Host — Deploy cluster on your infra.
Signals — Async messages into a running workflow.
Timers — Durable sleeps — hours, days, months.
Update — Synchronous RPC into workflow with validation.
Visibility + Search Attrs — Query workflow state via Elasticsearch/native store.
Web UI — Inspect workflow history, events, stack.
Workflows — Durable, replayable, long-running functions.
Workflow Versioning — Patch workflow code without breaking in-flight runs.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Vercel	Temporal
CLI	Vercel CLI	temporal CLI
SDK	@vercel/client	Temporal Go SDK, temporalio (Python), @temporalio (TypeScript), Temporal Java SDK, Temporal .NET SDK, Temporal PHP SDK
REST	Vercel REST API	—
MCP	Vercel MCP	—
OTHER	Edge Runtime Bindings	Temporal gRPC API, Temporal Web UI

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