A Vercel alternative with no surprise bill.
Usage-metered hosting bills you for every axis — bandwidth, function time, image optimization, build minutes. One viral day or one bot flood can turn a small bill into a big one. shiply.now is flat $0 / $8 / $24 per month, with no usage meter.
Publish my site to shiply.now and give me the live URL. Read https://shiply.now/skill.md first — it is the live API map. Ask me whether I have a shiply account: if yes, run the skill’s device-auth flow and I’ll click Allow; if no, publish anonymously — no account needed. In a cloud sandbox, use the raw HTTP API only (no npm, no install scripts). Every shiply error returns JSON with a code and a docs pointer — follow it, don’t guess.
No credit card · No account to start · Live at a real URL in one call
Usage-metered pricing means the bill moves when you least want it to.
On a usage-metered host, the plan fee is only the floor. The real bill is metered across several axes at once — bandwidth, function execution, image optimization, build minutes — and they all climb together exactly when a project takes off.
That is where bill shock comes from. A launch that hits the front page, a post that goes viral, a bot flood against a public endpoint — none of it changed your code, but every one of them can push a small monthly bill to a much larger one. It is a documented, repeatable pattern, not a rare edge case, and it is the single thing people search for a Vercel alternative to escape.
Flat price. No meter. No account to start.
The price on the card is the price you pay — and your agent ships in one call, no build to wait on.
One flat line, no matter the traffic
$0, $8, or $24 per month — and that is the whole bill. There is no usage meter, so a viral day or a bot flood does not change what you owe. Ship a launch, hit the front page, and still know your invoice to the dollar.
- Flat $0 / $8 / $24 per month (USD)
- No metered bandwidth, function time, or build minutes
- A spike in traffic never raises the bill
Your agent publishes in one HTTP call
No account to create before you can ship. Your agent POSTs once and the site is live at a real <slug>.shiply.now URL in a single request — no build step, no dashboard detour. Claim it later with one click to keep it.
- No account needed to publish your first site
- One HTTP call — no build to wait on
- Agent-first: MCP, CLI, or raw HTTP
shiply.now vs Vercel, on the things that move the bill
Flat versus usage-metered, and what it takes to get a site live.
| Feature | shiply.nowflat | Vercelusage-metered |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Flat $0 / $8 / $24 per month | Plan fee plus usage charges |
| Usage meterbandwidth, function time, image optimization, build minutes | ||
| Predictable monthly bill | Varies with traffic | |
| A spike can raise the bill | ||
| Getting started | ||
| Account required to start | ||
| Publish method | One HTTP call — no build step | Git push or CLI build + deploy |
| Agent-first API + MCP tools | Partial | |
| Real URL the moment the call returns | After a build completes | |
| What ships in the box | ||
| Custom domains, auto-DNS + SSL | ||
| Real databasesCloudflare D1 + Neon Postgres | Via marketplace add-ons | |
| Edge functions | ||
| Per-site inbox | ||
| Atomic client handoffStripe Connect, 30-day refund | ||
When Vercel still wins: Next.js apps that lean on ISR / on-demand revalidation, and teams that want its deep framework integration and org tooling. shiply.now runs full server-side rendering for every major JS framework — SvelteKit, Astro, Qwik, Nuxt, SolidStart, TanStack Start, React Router v7, and Next.js (plain SSR) — all live on Cloudflare, and you want a flat, predictable bill for it.
Predictable hosting, in one call.
Flat $0 / $8 / $24 per month. No usage meter, no surprise bill, no account to start.