Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice

We received an email yesterday saying the "100% discount is expiring on June 14".

We're using them for deploy previews. Does anyone have recommendations on alternatives?

Netlify or Cloudflare perhaps. I would think most platforms could handle that by now. Both Cloudflare and Netlify work for me in that scenario.

Google Cloud Run also has PR previews

Fly.io has a GitHub action to make it pretty easy

I'm on the DevRel team at Cloudflare. Definitely happy to help personally with anyone who needs help migrating. My email is in my profile.

And we have an OSS sponsorship program: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-new-oss-sponsorships-...

I'm currently giving https://piku.github.io/ a go and it's working well, but this is just for hobby projects.

If it is important to your business for deployment staging, then why not just pay Vercel?

Who said anything about a business?

Self hosted coolify[0], very easy to set up IMO

[0]: https://coolify.io/

If you’re comfortable with k8s there is no cheaper deal in town than Rackspace Spot.

If it's only for preview deployments, will the free plan suffice?

Otherwise it's only $20/team member (person who can git push and deploy)/mo, which is still very reasonable for the features they offer.

Otherwise you can set up your own Cloudflare Pages deploys instead, probably under their free plan, or $20/mo for their paid plan. It doesn't have the easy integrations that Vercel has, but you should be able to just set up a build webhook and have it publish a new deploy when you push.

I've been using Koyeb pretty seamlessly

Cloudflare?

I was really excited about Cloudflare Pages when it first launched, but back then it seemed a bit barebones compared to what Vercel was offering (in terms of the admin dashboard GUI, ease of managing previews, seeing logs and function runs, next/image optimizations integrations, ISR support, etc.). Like all of those things were possible on the Cloudflare system, but would've required manual setup across a few of your lower-level services, as opposed to a 1-click deploy on Vercel. (Which is understandable, since Next is their framework after all).

Is it different (more integrated) these days? I'm a frequent customer of both Cloudflare and Vercel, but would love to see more fully-managed frontend services like Vercel.

Netlify CEO here.

We've had a few open source plan since the early days and it's not going anywhere.

https://www.netlify.com/legal/open-source-policy/

The Vercel open source plan is also not going anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684147

Hey solardev, I'm on the team at Vercel.

To clarify, the Vercel OSS program isn't going anywhere. Glad to hear you've had a good experience with Vercel. If an open source sponsorship is something you want to explore, please shoot me an email - lee at vercel.com.

Hey! I'm not one of the people looking for a sponsorship, but thank you. I often use both Vercel and Cloudflare (for different teams / projects).

... it's clearly in the toilet now, along with Vercel's reputation.

Not going anywhere as in the end of the road?

I guess you missed all the negative reviews in this thread?