Infrastream vs Vercel: A Full-Stack Platform vs Frontend Cloud
Infrastream’s edge over
Platform Scope:
Frontend vs Full Stack
Vercel specializes in the Frontend Cloud — perfect for static sites, serverless functions, and fast CI/CD for Next.js and similar frameworks.
Infrastream manages the entire app and infrastructure stack — from frontend to backend services, stateful databases, data pipelines, and enterprise cloud networking.
Infrastructure Control:
Abstracted vs Owned
Vercel provides managed hosting with limited visibility into underlying infrastructure. Users interact with Vercel projects, not cloud resources.
Infrastream runs inside your GCP account — provisioning, securing, and managing infrastructure components like GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, and VMs.
Security Enforcement:
Add-on vs Built-in
Vercel secures what it hosts — including HTTPS, DDoS protection, and safe serverless execution — but its security scope stops at the boundary of the functions it runs.
Infrastream delivers non-bypassable, embedded security across all environments — including mTLS, Falco/eBPF threat detection, default-deny networking, and ephemeral credentials via Executors.
Application Architecture:
Simple vs Complex
Vercel supports modern frontend apps and simple serverless backends. Complex architectures must be managed outside Vercel.
Infrastream is built for multi-tiered microservices, stateful workloads, message queues, and AI/ML pipelines — all secured and managed under one platform.
Networking:
Predefined vs Configurable
Vercel hides infrastructure complexity — great for simplicity, but not for custom networking or internal integration.
Infrastream configures and secures customer VPCs, subnets, internal/external load balancers, and private networking — directly inside GCP.
Robust all-in-one solution Offers on-premise option for data-sensitive orgs Fine-grained access controls for team roles Centralized hub for platform access Enforces best practices by default Native GitOps integration Role-based repo access Templated pipelines for consistency Auto static analysis for security Dedicated runners for isolation Auto-integrated observability Deep Kubernetes support Built-in support Bare metal & VM friendly Platform-level security Automated & integrated SSO / SAML / OIDC ready Fully native integration Integrated mesh options Secret store compatible Native support for events Manage team/user access directly Centralized permission flows Manage user/group-based auth flows Assign IAM roles from platform Manage secrets/users at scale Access & role provisioning via platform Federated auth & role sync Role-based client access provisioning
(Platform-specific IaC)
(SaaS only) (Platform-level) (Integrates)Via SCM / Vercel Teams
(For Vercel deployments)Via Integration (e.g. Snyk)
(Managed by Vercel) (Built-in basic, Integrates) (Abstracted away) (Core focus - Functions) (Edge Functions) (Built-in)(Own user system)
(N/A) (N/A)Limited/Via custom int.
(Uses, doesn't manage access) (Uses, doesn't manage access) (SSO integration only) (Uses credentials) (Vercel Auth for apps)Ready to Redefine Your Infrastructure?
