Vercel is not much better at 10 users, and they hide it deep within their pricing table behind a tooltip so you're not likely to realize this until it's too late.
Cloudflare Pages doesn't charge per user but limits concurrent builds which can get really painful.
I honestly can't find a good option in this space anymore... What happened?
They took lots of VC money, got crazy valuations and picked up a few enterprise customers as the JamStack trend grew - and now have to try to generate a return.
Otherwise called running a business.
I don't mind paying a fair, pre-disclosed price for services that provide value. I do mind opaque enterprise sales tactics that try to take full percentage points off my available runway for no discernable increase in value when I try to add one more user. Doubly so when they go to such lengths to cover it up as Vercel is currently doing.
I recall watching a video on their YouTube account a few months ago where their head of devrel tried to interview a famous personality from the “cloud native” community (Kelsey Hightower) as a way to introduce their “edge functions” nonsense.
The entire thing was a train wreck from about ten minutes in when he started asking questions about how it actually worked and what kind of trade offs it would imply.
I remember they had to do a bunch of obvious hard cuts presumably to remove the more embarrassing stuff and it always stood out as a snake oil company to me ever since then.
The fact that they also seem to rely on deceptive pricing and dark patterns for sales seems very on brand with what I recall thinking about them at the time.
The interview in question is here in case anyone is interested https://youtu.be/yuxd2kurpzk
I cut out parts of the interview to make it shorter. If you’d like to verify what I showed, you can deploy an Astro site with Edge Functions for free: https://vercel.com/templates/astro/astro-edge-functions
Open to feedback on how we can do better next time. Would you prefer more discussion about tradeoffs?
Yeah, because enterprise pricing is so nefarious. It's fine if having to negotiate a contract intimidates you, but there's nothing sinister in it. It's not possible to offer a simple tiered pricing plan that can accommodate every enterprise customer and their usage requirements. Maybe companies A and B have the same number of users, but B consumes 10x the bandwidth. Should B be paying more than A?
Companies can't stay in business if it costs more to service the business than the revenues coming in.
The cover up I was referring to was the 10 user limit before Enterprise pricing gets applied, hidden behind a tooltip deep in their pricing grid.
I thought it was obvious given that every one of these companies have enterprise pricing and advertise it front and center, but only Vercel hides the user limit. Assuming your post is in good faith and not a deliberate strawman, I concede that I could have been more specific.
and for private orgs https://www.netlify.com/pricing/private-org-repo-faq/