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Quave ONE vs Vercel

Vercel is a frontend and full-stack cloud built on a global CDN and Vercel Functions, with first-class Next.js support. Quave ONE runs long-running containers and managed databases on our regions or in your own cloud account.

Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.

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The short answer

For a Next.js or frontend-heavy app that wants a global CDN, a preview for every push and functions that scale from zero, Vercel is excellent. It also has SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and an official MCP server.

Vercel Functions have a maximum duration (300 seconds by default, up to 800 on Pro), and its WebSocket support is in public beta. If your backend is a long-running server (Meteor, Socket.IO, workers, queues) or needs MongoDB, PostgreSQL or Redis managed next to it, Quave ONE runs it as containers. You can also use both: frontend on Vercel, backend and databases on Quave ONE.

Side by side

Pricing model

Quave ONE
Direct: usage-based, $7.50 per zCloud per month (0.5 vCPU + 0.5 GB RAM), billed hourly. Overage lines apply to disk above 5 GB per zCloud, backups above 30 GB per environment, and builds above 600 minutes per month. Connect: a platform license from $399/month, and you pay your cloud provider directly.Source
Vercel
Pro: $20/month with $20 of usage credit; each extra Developer seat is $20/month (Viewer seats free). Then usage: Active CPU from $0.128/hour, memory from $0.0106/GB-hour, $0.60 per 1M invocations.Source

Smallest always-on app

Quave ONE
1 zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) for $7.50/month in standard regions (US-5, EU-3, BR-1), after a free Professional upgrade review. Logs, metrics, alerts, backups, MCP and support are included. EU-4 London is $26.50.Source
Vercel
No always-on server by default: Functions scale with requests. Long-running containers (Daemons) are in beta.Source

Free option

Quave ONE
Hobby account: deploy apps and databases to the US-1 Hobby region to evaluate. No charge and no credit card. Not for production.Source
Vercel
Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial use, with fixed caps (for example 4 Active CPU-hours and 100 GB data transfer per month).Source

Bandwidth

Quave ONE
No extra network fees. In US-5, BR-1, EU-3 and EU-4, 10 GB of outbound traffic per zCloud per month is included; contact support if you need more.Source
Vercel
Pro includes a Flat Rate CDN tier (1 TB data transfer, 1M CDN requests); higher tiers $20–$300/month.Source

Managed databases

Quave ONE
Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and ClickHouse, with managed backups kept 7 days by default. A single-node MongoDB starts at 1 zCloud ($7.50/month).Source
Vercel
No first-party Postgres, Redis or MongoDB. Databases come from Marketplace partners such as Neon, Upstash and MongoDB Atlas.Source

Long-running apps and WebSockets

Quave ONE
Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open.Source
Vercel
Functions stop at a max duration: 300s on Hobby, up to 800s on Pro (1,800s in beta). WebSockets are in public beta and close when the function hits that limit.Source

Regions

Quave ONE
Direct: Ashburn (US-5), Frankfurt (EU-3), London (EU-4) and São Paulo (BR-1). Connect: your own cloud account; the license covers one region and provider, more may cost extra.Source
Vercel
19 compute regions, including São Paulo (gru1), behind a 126-PoP CDN. Hobby uses 1 region, Pro up to 3.Source

Run in your own cloud

Quave ONE
Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee.Source
Vercel
Bring Your Own Cloud on AWS only, for Enterprise teams: Functions run as Lambda in your AWS account. No self-hosted option.Source

Autoscaling

Quave ONE
CPU- and memory-based autoscaling for app environments, enabled per account on request. Scale to zero is Connect-only.Source
Vercel
Functions scale automatically to 30,000 concurrency (Hobby, Pro) or 100,000 (Enterprise). Daemons do not autoscale.Source

Logs and metrics

Quave ONE
Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account).Source
Vercel
Built-in observability. Runtime logs kept 1 hour (Hobby), 1 day (Pro), 3 days (Enterprise), or 30 days with Observability Plus, billed per event and on by default for Pro teams created or upgraded since April 3, 2026.Source

Preview environments

Quave ONE
Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL.Source
Vercel
Automatic preview deployment for every branch push and pull request, on all plans.Source

Support

Quave ONE
Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan.Source
Vercel
No email support on Hobby. Email support on Pro. Enterprise adds SLAs and a Success Manager.Source

Compliance

Quave ONE
Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account.Source
Vercel
SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. HIPAA BAA on Pro for $350/month.Source

AI agents (MCP)

Quave ONE
Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions.Source
Vercel
Official remote MCP server (mcp.vercel.com) on all plans.Source

Which one fits you

Choose Quave ONE when

  • Your backend is a long-running server: Meteor, Socket.IO, workers, queues or anything that keeps connections open.
  • You want MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Redis managed by the same platform as your app.
  • You want logs kept 20 days without a per-event observability add-on.
  • You need to run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account without an Enterprise plan (Connect).
  • You want predictable pricing for always-on services.

Choose Vercel when

  • You are building a Next.js or frontend-heavy app and want a global CDN.
  • Your traffic is spiky and per-request functions that scale from zero fit it.
  • You want automatic previews on every push without any setup.
  • You need SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 or a HIPAA BAA from your provider today.

Moving from Vercel to Quave ONE

  1. Keep your frontend on Vercel if it works well there; move the long-running backend first.
  2. Create the backend app on Quave ONE from a Dockerfile or a preset, and add its environment variables.
  3. Create the managed database on Quave ONE and import your data from the Marketplace provider.
  4. Point your API domain to Quave ONE and update the frontend to call it.
  5. Or let our team do it: we help with every step, or run the whole migration for you, apps and databases included.

FAQ

  • We found no Meteor guide in Vercel docs. Meteor needs a long-running Node server with WebSockets, while Vercel Functions have a maximum duration and WebSockets are in beta. Quave ONE runs Meteor on maintained Meteor images.
  • Yes. Keep the frontend on Vercel and run the API, workers and databases on Quave ONE, then point the frontend at the Quave ONE API domain.
  • They bill different things. Vercel bills per seat plus active CPU, memory and invocations; Quave ONE bills allocated zClouds by the hour, and our pricing has no per-seat fee. Always-on backends usually fit the Quave ONE model; spiky, mostly idle functions often fit Vercel.
  • Not exactly. The $7.50 zCloud price already includes logs kept 20 days, metrics, alerts, managed database backups (30 GB per environment), MCP, and email support with 24/7 infrastructure on-call. On many platforms some of these are add-ons or higher plans, so compare the full setup you need, not only the smallest instance.

How we compare

Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.

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