Weegloo vs Vercel

The short answer

Vercel deploys your front-end. Weegloo hosts the site and is the backend behind it.

This is not really a like-for-like comparison, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. Vercel is a deployment platform — build pipeline, edge network, preview deployments, and the best Next.js experience there is. It is not trying to be your database, your CMS, or your identity provider.

Which is exactly why the comparison comes up. Almost nobody ships "Vercel". They ship Vercel plus something: Vercel + Supabase, Vercel + Firebase + a CDN, Vercel + a headless CMS

• an auth provider. Each addition is another subscription, another dashboard, another set of keys, and another seam for things to go wrong in.

Weegloo replaces the whole assembly with one platform: static hosting with custom domains, plus structured content, media, member sign-in, permissions, data validation, server-side logic, and a scheduler in the same Space.

What each one hands you out of the box

The three differences that actually decide it

1. You are comparing one subscription against three

A realistic Vercel-based product pays for hosting, then a database or BaaS, then — as soon as someone who does not write code needs to change a page — a CMS. Three vendors, three bills, three permission models, three sets of credentials to rotate.

Weegloo's paid tiers are $8 per month (Basic) and $80 per month (Pro), and that one subscription covers hosting, data, media, members, permissions, and server-side logic. The Free tier already includes custom-domain hosting, 20,000 content items, 500,000 API calls a month, and up to 100,000 end-user accounts.

2. Traffic that never leaves the building

This one widens faster than anything else as you grow.

When an app on Vercel reads data from Supabase and pulls images from another CDN, all of that crosses a service boundary. Outbound traffic lands on the bill as bandwidth, and each hop adds a round trip that becomes latency. Both grow with traffic.

Weegloo provides data, media, content, and server logic itself, so none of those calls cross the internet. At scale it is a cost difference worth taking seriously, and a speed difference at the same time.

3. Script — not that functions are impossible, but that they are not the answer

Vercel's serverless and edge functions run arbitrary code. Weegloo put Script, a DSL, in that place. Not that it could not do the other thing — it chose not to.

What a BFF actually does is remarkably predictable: compare values, handle data, send email, call a webhook, hit an external API and store the result. Expressing that as a DSL bought no cold start, lighter behaviour under heavy traffic, and the low price that follows from both.

There are three invocation paths, too. Direct call, content-change event, and cron scheduler all run the same Script — so running a scheduled job once, right now, is just a call.

If you do not write code, this is the strongest option here

Vercel assumes you already have an app to deploy. It deploys it beautifully, but someone had to build it, and wiring in a database and a CMS is developer work too. There is essentially nothing a person who does not write code can start on Vercel alone.

Weegloo is the best choice on this list for people who do not write code, and not by accident:

• The console is the product. Content, media, members, and permissions are managed there. No admin application to commission.
• Validation is a few clicks. Range, uniqueness, and format are settings on the field, not code.
• Server-side work is a DSL, not code. Email, external API calls, and scheduled jobs are Script statements, and an AI agent writes the statement from a plain sentence.
• There is no stack to choose. Deciding on a database, an auth provider, and a CDN — and wiring them together — simply does not arise.
• The site ships from here too. Custom domain included; no separate host to pick.

Someone who is not an engineer can run a real service rather than a prototype. And when the day comes that a developer is needed for the screens, the backend stays where it is — only the front-end gets handed over.

The Marketplace — where you do not even build the front-end

A Vercel template clones a repository for you, and deploying and operating it is yours from there. A Weegloo Marketplace app is already running inside your Space the moment it is installed.

The Marketplace lists finished apps. One app can carry Content Type, Content, Media, SpaceRole, Locale, Script, Webhook, and the screens themselves as Web Hosting. Installing it brings all of that into your own Space — you are not a tenant on somebody else's service, you end up with a service where both the data and the screens are yours.

If the app includes screens, install it, swap in your own data, and it is a running service. If it has no front-end, you skip working out the data structures and writing Scripts from scratch — take what is already modelled and put your own front-end on top.

You do not have to use all of it

Reading Weegloo as "a full-stack backend, all or nothing" is a misunderstanding. Use only the part you need. Stay on Vercel and use Weegloo purely for content management, or purely for media and CDN delivery.

For the wider view, a table sets Weegloo against ten platforms across twenty criteria — Directus, Strapi, Payload, Sanity, Appwrite, Supabase, Firebase, and Contentful included — in the comparison index. A capability a platform does not provide itself scores zero there.

Where Vercel is the better choice

• You need server-side rendering. Next.js SSR, ISR, streaming, middleware, edge functions — Weegloo hosts static output only. If your product depends on per-request rendering, host it on Vercel and use Weegloo as the backend behind it. That combination works well.
• You want git-push deploys and preview URLs per pull request. Vercel's build and preview workflow is genuinely excellent and Weegloo does not try to reproduce it.
• You need arbitrary code on the server. Running a specific library or an algorithm you wrote yourself is what functions are for. Script is not aimed at that.

"When you do not need a backend" is deliberately not on this list. It is not a reason to choose Vercel — Weegloo hosts static sites with custom domains too, and if you do not need the backend you simply do not use that part. See the FAQ below.

Worth saying plainly: Weegloo and Vercel are not mutually exclusive. Deploying on Vercel and using Weegloo for data, media, members, and permissions removes the database, the auth service, and the CMS from the stack while keeping the deployment experience you like.

What Vercel does not have and Weegloo does

• A backend at all — structured content, media with processing and CDN delivery, member sign-in, fine-grained permissions, and data validation, rather than three vendors you connect yourself.
• An operations console for the people who run the service after launch: search, filters, tags, comments, review, revisions, and an explicit publish step. No admin page to build.
• Multi-locale content as a field-level feature with fallback chains.
• Script with no cold start and a cron scheduler.
• Flat, seat-inclusive pricing instead of per-seat plus usage, and no outbound traffic between services.
• Metric-based usage monitoring with threshold alerts — you see the limit coming by email.
• Proven scale. The architecture beneath Weegloo is what SNOW Corp. used to run global services at ZEPETO scale — over 300 million registered users.

FAQ

Is Weegloo a Vercel alternative?

For static sites that need a real backend, yes — Weegloo hosts the site with a custom domain and provides the data, media, members, and permissions behind it. For server-rendered Next.js applications it is not an alternative, because Weegloo's hosting serves static output. In that case the natural setup is Vercel for the front-end and Weegloo as the backend.

Can I use Weegloo together with Vercel?

Yes, and it is a common shape. Deploy the front-end on Vercel, and use Weegloo's delivery API for content and media, ServiceLogin for member sign-in, and roles for permissions. You keep Vercel's build and preview workflow and drop the separate database, auth provider, and CMS.

Does Weegloo support Next.js?

Yes, as a static export. next build with output: 'export' produces a static bundle that deploys to Weegloo Web Hosting. Server-rendered Next.js needs a Node runtime, which Weegloo Hosting does not provide — host that on Vercel and call Weegloo from it.

Without serverless functions, what replaces API routes?

Script does. It is a set of declarative statements your front-end calls over HTTP: read and write content, call external APIs, send email. Code-authored functions are not impossible, they are deliberately not the answer — in exchange there is no cold start and it stays light under heavy traffic. If you need an arbitrary library on the server, that is when a function is right.

Does it support scheduled jobs (cron)?

Yes. Scheduler runs a Script on a cron schedule, and the same Script can be called directly or triggered by a content-change event. Running a scheduled job once, right now, is just a call.

Can a non-developer use it?

Yes. Vercel assumes an app already exists; Weegloo manages content, media, members, and permissions in the console, sets validation with clicks, and expresses server logic as Script statements an AI agent will write from a sentence. Site deployment with a custom domain is included too, so someone who is not an engineer can run a real service.

Is there any reason to use Weegloo for a static site that needs no backend?

Yes. Hosting alone is a perfectly good reason to use it — static sites deploy with a custom domain, and the Free tier includes one custom domain and ten web hosting deployments. If you do not need the backend, you simply do not use it, and it costs nothing extra.

The difference shows up later. The day you need a contact form, or a notice someone can edit without a code change, or members — on static-hosting-only platforms that is when picking and wiring a database, a CMS, and an auth provider begins. Here it is switching on something that is already present. No platform migration.

How do I see usage? Will I know before I hit a limit?

Usage is shown in the console, per metric. And you can set a threshold as a percentage — when usage reaches it, an email arrives first.

Is Weegloo cheaper than Vercel?

Compare honestly: Weegloo at $8 or $80 a month covers hosting and the backend, while a Vercel plan covers hosting and is priced per seat, with the database, auth, and CMS billed separately. On top of that, the outbound traffic moving between those services does not exist here.

Do I get preview deployments?

No. Weegloo deploys a built static bundle to a Web Hosting resource with a subdomain or a custom domain. Per-pull-request preview URLs are a Vercel strength and Weegloo does not replicate them.

Do I need an AI agent to use Weegloo?

No. Weegloo works perfectly well when a developer uses it the traditional way — there is a REST API and a console, and that is enough. It happens to expose its whole surface over MCP, so telling an agent like Claude, Cursor, or Codex what you want is usually faster. AI is an option, not a prerequisite.