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All of this is available in Cloudflare $5 plan?

Cloudflare’s developer experience doesn’t come close, it is terrible. Cloudflare are working on it, and hopefully they’ll be a real competitor to Vercel on ease of use someday, but right now, it is painful when compared to Vercel. Cloudflare is infrastructure first, Vercel is developer experience first.

Yes, CloudFlare's full of bugs and sharp edges. Not to mention the atrocious 3MB worker size limit (especially egregious in the age of ML models). They don't mention this up front in the docs and the moment you try to deploy anything non trivial it's oops time to completely re architect your app.

> Not to mention the atrocious 3MB worker size limit

That's for the free plan.

Limits are documented here:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/#w...

Well it's so far from Vercel that it's not even funny any more.

Good work on workers though, maybe the next generation of sandstorm will be built on CloudFlare in a decade or so after all the bugs have been hammered out.

In my experience it severely lacks on developer experience, compared to Vercel.

Every three months I'm trying to deploy to Cloudflare from Monorepo and I hadn't have success yet. While Vercel works every time from the box. Maybe I could dig deeper and try to understand how it works, but I'm super lazy to do that.

Same here, deploying a Next.js app just works right out of the box with Vercel.

I've had so much trouble with Cloudflare, turns out you've to configure your deploy commands to use opennextjs-cloudflare. Vercel DX is much better for sure, and Cloudflare isn't even close. (I'm not even an engineer btw, so needed some time to figure out.)

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