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“My app works on my computer but I can't get it online”

Vibe coders whose application runs perfectly locally but who get stuck at the “make it accessible on the internet” step: servers, domain names, certificates… an intimidating vocabulary for nothing.

Recommended agent: Vercel

💰 $0 to $20/month (the free plan is enough for most projects). Level: Intermediate 🌍 United States Permanent free Hobby plan

Vercel (vercel.com), the platform that puts your app online in a few clicks. You connect your code, it handles the rest: servers, security, automatic updates with every change.

How it works

Trigger: You push a change to GitHub — detects the framework, builds, deploys, and secures the version, and you get a public application updated automatically.

Step-by-step setup

Put your code on GitHub (free, in a few clicks from Lovable or Cursor).
Create a Vercel account and import your GitHub project.
Vercel detects how to deploy on its own: confirm.
Get your public address and share it.

⚠️ Guardrails: Never publish API keys or passwords directly in your code: use Vercel's environment variables. Test the live version thoroughly: it can behave differently from your computer.

🔧 Technical details

Installation: hybrid — cloud platform + local CLI: deployment from a Git repository or the Vercel CLI, with local development via `vercel dev` (local region `dev1`).
Prerequisites: A Vercel account and a project in a supported framework (auto-detected), deployable from Git (GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket) or after installing the Vercel CLI; the “Getting started” documentation describes installing the CLI then deploying the first project.
Hardware: non_applicable
License: mixed — proprietary cloud platform; open-source tools per the official Vercel GitHub organization: Vercel/CLI repo and @vercel/sdk under Apache-2.0, Turborepo under MIT.
API & integrations: API: Yes · SDK: TypeScript (@vercel/sdk) · CLI: Yes · Webhooks: Yes · MCP: Yes
Models: Officially documented AI SDK / AI Gateway: a unified API giving access to models from multiple providers (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) in `creator/model-name` format, AI Gateway being the AI SDK's default provider for a model passed as a string; documented BYOK: provider credentials configured at team level, with no markup, with fallback to the Gateway's system credentials.
Data: Global CDN (126 points of presence) and compute in 19 regions; Vercel Functions run by default in the iad1 region (Washington, D.C., United States), a region that can be changed and pinned near the data source, with multi-region on Pro and Enterprise plans. No commitment about training on data was read in the platform documentation consulted.
Documented limits: Per the official Functions limits page (Fluid compute): max duration 300 s on Hobby, 300 s default and 800 s max on Pro/Enterprise (1,800 s in extended beta); uncompressed bundle size 250 MB (500 MB in Python, up to 5 GB in “large functions” beta); max memory 2 GB on Hobby and 4 GB on Pro/Enterprise.
Operations: Runtime logs viewable and searchable in the dashboard, retention 1 hr (Hobby), 1 day (Pro) and 3 days (Enterprise), 30 days with Observability Plus; built-in Observability (invocations, errors, costs); SAML SSO (Enterprise, or paid Pro add-on) and Directory Sync/SCIM (Enterprise); RBAC by team and project roles and Access Groups (Enterprise); default environments Local, Preview and Production, custom environments on Pro/Enterprise.

Not documented in the official sources: Self-hosting.

Official sources: vercel.com · vercel.com · vercel.com · vercel.com · vercel.com · vercel.com — verified on November 1, 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Vercel cost?

$0 to $20/month (the free plan is enough for most projects). Permanent free Hobby plan.

Is Vercel free?

Yes. Permanent free Hobby plan.

Is Vercel hard to get started with?

Level: Moderate. Setup takes 4 steps; the first one: Put your code on GitHub (free, in a few clicks from Lovable or Cursor).

What limits and guardrails should you know about with Vercel?

Never publish API keys or passwords directly in your code: use Vercel's environment variables. Test the live version thoroughly: it can behave differently from your own computer.