Turn Zero Cloud compared with Vercel

Vercel hosts front-end frameworks and the functions behind them; databases and user authentication come from partners in its marketplace. Turn Zero Cloud is a production backend for an application your coding agent builds: a running Node.js server with its database, file storage, sign-in, scheduled jobs, AI calls, and push notifications, through one MCP connection.

Vercel is a product of Vercel, Inc., named here for comparison only. This page is Turn Zero's, and Vercel has neither reviewed nor endorsed it.

The short version

Vercel runs your code as functions that answer requests, in Node.js, Python, Go, and other runtimes, within a duration limit set by the plan; container images are in beta.
Turn Zero Cloud runs your application as a server in its own container at its own address. Your coding agent deploys it and reads its logs through the connection it built it with.
Vercel prices per seat plus usage. Turn Zero Cloud prices per application: one free application for each account, then $10 or $35 a month.
Both offer an MCP server. Vercel's reaches projects, deployments, logs, and documentation; this product's creates and runs the whole backend.

Side by side

Vercel's facts are read from its pricing and documentation pages on 2026-10-06. Check those pages for current figures.

On	Turn Zero Cloud	Vercel
What it is	A production backend for an application built with a coding agent: the server and its services in one place.	Hosting for front-end frameworks and the functions behind them, with storage, AI, and databases through its own products and its marketplace.
Your application's server	Hosted as a server. A Node.js server in its own container, at its own address under ai.host.	Hosted as functions. Serverless and Edge Functions in Node.js, Bun, Python, Go, Rust, and others, limited to 300 seconds a call on Hobby and 800 on Pro; container images are in beta, and a production instance stops after five minutes without traffic.
Database	A PostgreSQL database for each application, created with it.	None of Vercel's own. Neon, Upstash, Supabase, and others through the marketplace.
Sign-in for your users	Included: accounts and passkeys, with open or invitation-only sign-up, its users managed from your coding agent.	None of Vercel's own. Clerk, Auth0, Descope, Supabase, and others through the marketplace.
File storage	Included, for each application.	Vercel Blob.
Scheduled jobs	Included, with each run's outcome recorded.	Cron Jobs: 100 for each project, once a day on Hobby and as often as once a minute on Pro.
AI calls	From inside your application, on an allowance every plan includes or on your own key.	The AI Gateway to many model providers, with budgets and your own keys, and the AI SDK.
Push notifications	Included, to iPhone and Android.	Not a Vercel service.
Secrets	Stored by name through the connection, typed into your own terminal and never into the chat; an outside API's key is replaced without a redeploy.	Environment variables for each project and environment.
Deploys, logs, and rollback	Your agent deploys and rolls back versions, promotes from a development environment when you add one, and reads each version's logs, counters, and deploy steps.	Git-connected deploys with a preview for each branch, deployment logs, and rollback.
MCP server for coding agents	One server: it creates the application, stores its secrets, deploys it, and reads its logs and status.	One server: it searches the documentation, manages projects and deployments, and reads deployment logs and analytics.
Free plan	One free application for each account; its capacity is on the pricing page.	Hobby: free, for personal and non-commercial use, with usage limits.
Paid plans	Standard at $10 and Pro at $35 a month, for each application; every plan is free during the beta.	Pro at $20 a month with one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit, $20 for each further seat, usage beyond the credit billed on demand.

When Vercel fits better

Your application is a front-end framework application, Next.js above all, and you want its pages and functions served from a global edge with a preview for every branch, a team working through seats, and a marketplace of partner services to add a database or sign-in when you need one.

When Turn Zero Cloud fits better

Your coding agent is building a whole application, server included, and you want it to go from a prompt to a running address without assembling a host, a database, a sign-in service, and a secrets store from several dashboards. One connection gives the agent all of it, and one plan for each application prices it.

Using both

A front end on Vercel can call its backend on Turn Zero Cloud over HTTPS; the backend answers at its own address, and the application's keys stay on the backend's side.