I dunno I put a lot of traffic through Vercel, maybe 100k visitors per day, and it was under a few hundred a month. I think a couple EC2 instances behind a load balancer would cost similar or more. I was under the impression that its still a VC subsidized service.
They regularly try to get me to join an enterprise plan but no service cutoff threats yet.
You could probably serve 100k visitors from a $5 VPS, depending on the application.
That said, I understand people are paying for basically not having to think about infrastructure, and agree that that's theoretically worth money, if they could do it well.
They regularly try to get me to join an enterprise plan but no service cutoff threats yet.