Vercel Has a Free Tier — Deploy Frontend Apps With Edge Functions, Analytics, and Instant Previews

A startup founder showed me their tech stack last week. They were paying $200/month for AWS to host a Next.js marketing site with 3,000 monthly visitors. I moved it to Vercel in 20 minutes. Monthly cost: $0. Vercel's free tier is designed for exactly this — production-grade hosting for frontend apps without paying a cent. What You Get Free No credit card. Hobby plan includes: 100GB bandwidth/month — CDN-served from 70+ edge locations Serverless function invocations — 100GB-hours of execution Edge Functions — run code at the edge, <50ms cold starts Instant previews — every git branch gets a unique URL Analytics — Web Vitals, page views, visitor data Custom domains — unlimited, with automatic HTTPS Image Optimization — 1,000 source images/month KV Storage — 256MB (Redis-compatible) Postgres — 256MB via Neon integration Blob Storage — 500MB for file uploads Cron Jobs — 2 cron jobs, daily execution Quick Start # Install Vercel CLI npm i -g vercel # From your project directory (Next.js, Rea