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.
The short version: pick shiply.now when you want a predictable bill and an agent that publishes in one HTTP call. Pick Vercel for large, server-rendered Next.js apps 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.
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 | |
| 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, 40+ tools — agent deploys directly | Read-oriented; deploy requires an account + build |
| Hosting | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Real databases | D1 + Neon Postgres | via integrations |
| Edge functions | ||
| 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 AUD
- 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 — 40+ 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 platform, and for a real set of projects it is the right call. Here is where it wins.
Reach for Vercel when you are building a large, server-rendered Next.js application — the kind with heavy ISR, edge middleware, streaming, and deep framework integration. That is the workload it was purpose-built for, and it does it 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.