Storage on Vercel
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Storage on Vercel
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#2Vercel is the second company to “eat the cloud from outside in”. (https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go)
its now my defacto playbook for building lasting bottom up disruptive cloud companies. start by giving away an extremely good free tier (cloudflare - cdn, vercel - nextjs+hosting) then add build time compute, run time compute, readonly kv store, and now full read write storage.
(this is part of an overall cloud progression that i've been studying for a couple years https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1417136897894326277)
many other platforms try to start off offering everything under the sun, claiming to care about the holistic end to end experience. vercel bet correctly on one wedge, built it up over years, and only now is expanding into storage. well earned.
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#3Very nice. I really wanted this to happen.
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#4Cloudflare's R2 costs $0.36 per million read operations (after the 10 million you get for free) [1]. Vercel is wrapping R2 and is charging $2 per million reads [2]. They're also charging $0.15/GB for egress (after the 1GB you get free), when R2 charges nothing, and the storage cost is doubled from $0.015/GB on R2 to $0.03/GB on Vercel. That's quite the cost increase for the DX improvement.
[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/
[2] https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-blob/usage-and-pricin...
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#6Vercel is the second company to “eat the cloud from outside in”. ( https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go ) its now my defacto playbook for building lasting bottom up disruptive cloud companies. start by giving away an extremely good free tier (cloudflare - cdn, vercel - nextjs+hosting) then add build time compute, run time compute, readonly kv store, and now full read write storage. (this is part of an overall cloud prog…
Cloudflare own and run the services they’re offering whereas it looks like Vercal storage is just other people’s services rebranded
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#7Cloud to me is overpriced and not transparent.
Example, with Upstash redis: i deployed a fly.io connected to upstash. I don't use that service for a month (no query at all), but it still counted in billing.
Wait, is upstash real serverless ? I have to pay for NOT using it ?
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#8Vercel is the second company to “eat the cloud from outside in”. ( https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go ) its now my defacto playbook for building lasting bottom up disruptive cloud companies. start by giving away an extremely good free tier (cloudflare - cdn, vercel - nextjs+hosting) then add build time compute, run time compute, readonly kv store, and now full read write storage. (this is part of an overall cloud prog…
Classic VC-backed B2B play. The trick, however, is finding a "wedge" people actually want on its own. Unfortunately that seems to be easier said than done.
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#9Cloudflare's R2 costs $0.36 per million read operations (after the 10 million you get for free) [1]. Vercel is wrapping R2 and is charging $2 per million reads [2]. They're also charging $0.15/GB for egress (after the 1GB you get free), when R2 charges nothing, and the storage cost is doubled from $0.015/GB on R2 to $0.03/GB on Vercel. That's quite the cost increase for the DX improvement. [1] https://developers.clou…
This isn't finalized yet, apologies for the confusion. We'll be updating the pricing for Blob shortly (it's in private beta and invite only). The pricing for KV and Postgres is up to date.
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#10Pricing for them: Blob: https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-blob/usage-and-pricin... KV: https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-kv/usage-and-pricing Postgres: https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-postgres/usage-and-pr...
KV/Postgres are accurate, that Blob page sneaked in. Blob pricing should be figured out shortly, we'll update that page (it's in private beta, invite only currently).