Reduce Vercel costs with a tailored migration
If your Vercel costs become unpredictable, scaling is troublesome, or compliance requires greater infrastructure control, moving to self-hosted or other solutions can be the right step. Many teams start by comparing Vercel with Cloudflare, Kubernetes, or managed cloud infrastructure. We turn that comparison into a practical, tailored, and fully controlled migration. We will help you assess, plan, and execute Vercel migration to a cost-efficient platform.
WHAT WE OFFER
Vercel migration assessment
We review your Vercel usage, costs, architecture, applications, functions, edge logic, domains, deployment flow, security, and operational constraints.
New platform implementation
We build the selected target infrastructure based on your business needs and preferences: Cloudflare, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/Fargate, Google Cloud Run, Docker, dedicated servers, or a hybrid architecture.
Controlled migration
We gradually move applications from Vercel to the new infrastructure, configure CI/CD, validate production behaviour, and switch traffic.
Migration reporting and handover
You choose the migration steps you need, and we render each with a written report covering completed work, findings, risks, cost implications, and next steps.
Technical details
To help you optimise Vercel costs and migrate existing Vercel applications, our engineers will assist you at any stage of a potential migration, whether partial or full. From assessing your current infrastructure to designing and building the most suitable Vercel alternative, to switching your end users and maintaining the new platform. In particular, we will:
Help you choose new infrastructure for your Vercel apps: Cloudflare, virtual machines, or Kubernetes? Public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, DigitalOcean, and others) or bare-metal servers in Hetzner?
Design and implement the new platform, based on servers/VMs, containers, or managed cloud solutions. If needed, Kubernetes is deployed with a complete Cloud Native stack for networking, observability, storage, and security
Configure all required backend services used by your applications, such as databases, caches, message brokers, search engines, and complementary server software
Implement CI/CD using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions to automate the build and deployment of your applications
Assist you in running your Vercel apps in a new environment and integrating them with new services for better observability and troubleshooting
Perform the seamless traffic switch from the old Vercel endpoints to the new backend platform, with validation, monitoring, and rollback options to minimise risk
outcome
Decision-ready audit report after the first stage of the project, including current Vercel costs, breakdown analysis, migration options, and a high-level migration plan.
The complete platform for production operations, equipped with monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, backups, access controls, security, and compliance features.
Optimal and cost-efficient Vercel alternative. Your applications run on a new infrastructure setup tailored to your cost, compliance, performance, and operational requirements.
Infrastructure that is built on top of Open Source software, cloud provider’s managed services, or a combination of both.
Business value
Streamlined, cost-efficient business scaling with minimised risk. Full control over the infrastructure and flexibility in choosing providers and underlying server technologies. Avoiding vendor lock-in.
When to migrate from Vercel?
Significantly increasing spend on Vercel for the managed infrastructure resources: edge requests, fast data transfer, active CPU time, build time, etc.
Security concerns, amplified by the critical April 2026 incident in Vercel.
No dedicated SRE/DevOps engineer, or handing the migration and ongoing operations to an external partner.
Business growth, involving growing application complexity and scalability issues.
Compliance requirements for self-hosting the business-critical infrastructure.
Vercel migration pricing
| Project stage |
Price and ETA
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Details
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| Migration assessment | From €2,000 1-2 weeks |
Audit, cost analysis, architecture review, target platform recommendation, migration plan |
| Platform implementation and migration for small and medium Vercel projects | From €8,000 1 month |
For smaller apps moving to AWS ECS, Google Cloud Run, Docker VM, or a hybrid setup |
| Platform implementation and migration for large Vercel projects | From €20,000 3-6 months |
For Kubernetes, multi-service apps, databases, observability, security, compliance, HA, rollback, and handover |
| Post-migration ongoing maintenance | Monthly retainer based on our DevOps/SRE pricing | Monitoring, patching, incident response, cost optimisation, backup checks, and support (it can be 24/7) |
case study
ComplAi offers SaaS for end-to-end management of compliance. Its production environment could not handle a growing number of users, and CI/CD was holding the business back from growing. Learn how Palark helped ComplAi to succeed!