Flat pricing. No account. No surprise bill.
Vercel meters usage across bandwidth, functions, image optimization, and build minutes — which is why a viral day can move the number. shiply.now has no usage meter: the price on the card is the price you pay, and your agent ships in a single call.
No credit card · No account to start · Live at a real URL in one call
The short version: pick shiply.now when you want a predictable bill and an agent that publishes in one HTTP call — it runs full SSR for every major framework, Next.js included. Pick Vercel for Next.js apps that need ISR / on-demand revalidation with a team behind them.
Usage-metered bill shock vs a flat line
This is the one thing to understand. Usage-metered hosts bill across several axes at once, so the same site can cost very different amounts month to month — and a traffic spike, a viral day, or a bot flood can turn a small bill into a large one. That bill-shock pattern is widely documented.
shiply.now removes the meter entirely. Free, $8, or $24 a month — that is the whole number, whether the site gets ten visitors or ten thousand on its best day. There are no metered overages, so you can ship something, watch it spike, and still know exactly what you owe. See the full pricing breakdown for what each tier includes.
A spike — or an attack — can't change your bill
Every site you publish is served from Cloudflare's edge, which mitigates DDoS attacks automatically and unmetered, on every plan. Attack and CDN traffic is absorbed at the edge and never billed to you — so the flat price is a hard ceiling. A viral day or a bot flood moves your traffic, not your invoice.
Metered hosts work the other way around. From Vercel's own DDoS-mitigation docs: “Usage will be incurred for requests that are successfully served prior to us automatically mitigating the event … including bot and crawler traffic.” And the Pro plan has no automatic hard spend cap by default — spend management (alerts, an optional pause) is opt-in, and you have to set it up before it can stop anything.
That is why five-figure spike bills are documented, not hypothetical: a ~$96,000 month for a viral app on Vercel, a $104,500 charge for a static site on Netlify. Each was eventually waived as a courtesy — after it went viral — not stopped by a cap. shiply.now's flat price is the cap.
The head-to-head
Every row is a real, factual difference — not a feature-count contest.
The one-call difference: shiply.now publishes in a single HTTP call from Claude Code or Cursor with no account — Vercel's agent tooling is read-oriented and an actual deploy still requires an account plus a build step.
| Feature | shiply.now | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Flat $0 / $8 / $24 | Usage-metered |
| Predictable bill | Varies with usage | |
| Spike / attack traffic | Absorbed at Cloudflare's edge — never billed | Billed for traffic served before mitigation, and for bots it doesn't classify as an attack (Vercel docs) |
| Free tier | ||
| Account required to deploy | ||
| Publishing | ||
| Publish method | One HTTP call from your agent | git push or CLI + account |
| Build step | Yes | |
| Agent / MCP | Write-enabled, 100+ tools — agent deploys directly | Read-oriented; deploy requires an account + build |
| Hosting | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Real databases | D1 + Neon Postgres | via integrations |
| Edge functions | Full Cloudflare Workers — SSR for every major framework | Full |
| Handoff | ||
| Sell / transfer a finished site | ✓ marketplace | |
Your agent publishes in one HTTP call
No git remote to wire up, no account to create first, no build to wait on. Your agent POSTs once and the site is live at a real URL the moment the call returns — then a single click claims it to keep it forever.
- No account needed to start — claim it later in one click
- No build step — files go live as they land
- Works from MCP (40+ write-enabled tools), the CLI, or raw HTTP
The number on the card is the number you pay
Metered hosts add up bandwidth, function execution, image optimization, and build minutes — so a good day can become an expensive one. shiply.now is a flat monthly price with no meter, so the line stays flat no matter how the traffic moves.
- Flat $0 / $8 / $24 per month, in USD
- No metered overages — ever
- A viral day changes your traffic, not your invoice
Your agent gets full write access — secrets stay safe.
The agent keychain lets the AI store and use secrets — API keys, database credentials, tokens — without ever logging them to output. Combined with a write-enabled MCP and Workers Lite edge functions, your agent goes from zero to a live, production-grade site in one call.
Encrypted agent keychain
Store API keys and secrets per site. The agent retrieves and uses them; they never appear in tool output or logs.
Write-enabled MCP — 100+ tools
Publish sites, manage databases, attach domains, send email — not read-only. Full docs at /docs.
Per-site variables + Workers Lite
Inject environment variables per site and run edge functions on Cloudflare Workers — no build step, no cold-start delay.
One call, live URL, no account
The agent POSTs once and gets back a real URL. No account needed to start — claim it in one click to keep it forever.
When Vercel is the better choice
Vercel is an excellent product, and for a real set of projects it is the right call. Here is where it wins.
Reach for Vercel when your Next.js app leans on ISR or on-demand revalidation — the kind with heavy incremental caching, edge middleware, and deep framework integration. shiply.now runs plain Next.js SSR (via OpenNext) today; ISR is the one piece still on the way, and Vercel does that workload better than anyone.
It is also the stronger fit for an established team that wants preview deploys per pull request, granular environments, role-based access, and a long-running CI/CD pipeline. And its mature ecosystem — integrations, analytics, a large community, and years of production hardening — is a real advantage when you are operating at scale.
shiply.now is built for a different moment: an agent that needs to ship a site to a real URL right now, on a flat bill, without an account or a build pipeline in the way. If that is the job, the rest of this page is for you.
Publish a site in one call.
No account needed. Live at a real URL in a single request.