The deciding difference is operational: Kubernetes can run on infrastructure you control, Vercel cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered.
Streaming-friendly serverless for TypeScript agents with a web front end.
Your existing cluster. Nothing new for the platform team to approve.
| Vercel | Kubernetes | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Proprietary | Open source |
| Pricing | freemium | open source |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Languages | TypeScript | Any language |
| Install | npm i -g vercel | — |
| Keys required | None | None |
The deciding difference is operational: Kubernetes can run on infrastructure you control, Vercel cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered. Vercel: Streaming-friendly serverless for TypeScript agents with a web front end. Kubernetes: Your existing cluster. Nothing new for the platform team to approve.
Vercel is a hosted service only. Kubernetes can run on your own infrastructure.
Vercel is proprietary (freemium). Kubernetes is open source (open source).
Every page here answers to Accept: text/markdown and returns the same content at roughly a tenth the tokens. No separate site, no toggle — same URL.
curl -s -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://newagent.build/compare/vercel-vs-k8s