Vercel Fluid vs Cloudflare Workers. š¬"From my findings, Vercel is 1.2x to 5x faster than CloudFlare for server rendering." We gave a very, very earnest try to Workers when we explored the edge runtime / world. There's no "beef", we had to migrate off for technical reasons. To be fair to them, they brought new ideas to the market. The CPU-based pricing for instance was good and Vercel Fluid has it as well. The main issues we ran into: 1ļøā£ Bad CPU performance, low capacity, very irregular and spiky latency. The benchmarks show you this. 2ļøā£ Single-vendor runtime. You can't run "Node.js 24". You run "whatever they give you, which is trying to look like Node.js but it's not" 3ļøā£ Really bad connectivity to the clouds. We measured the roundtrip time between AWS and CF Workers as being in the low 10s to 100s of milliseconds The result of us migrating off was shipping Fluid. You pay for CPU, it handles concurrency like a server (cost-efficient), you control the size / memory of the functions, you get full, open runtimes like @nodejs and Python, you get 1ms latency to cloud servicesā¦ Most people today are using Fluid and they don't even notice, because it just worksĀ® with the entire ecosystem. Here are the benchmarks @theo ran: https://t.co/JNFJWmsWZJ
