$5 / 1k requests... wow. That's like, entirely unworkable for almost all use-cases surely?
Even coming from a backend-heavy world where one request does a lot of work, that's got to be an order of magnitude off the mark at least. If you go for a frontend-heavy setup where there are more smaller requests (in my experience, common, when using things like Lambda), this could be another order of magnitude off again!
The free tier gets 100k requests per day, not month. And then for $5 you get 10M or 1M free a month depending on your settings and then you get charged for additional usage.
Vercel is basically a dev friendly wrapper for tier 1 services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774730
Eg. Vercel is 25x more expensive than eg. Cloudflare Workers. Raw guess would be that their 150$ bill would have become 6$.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891412
Eg. Image resizing
> Vercel : 5$ / 1000 requests
> Cloudflare : 9$ / 50.000 requests
Edit for comment below:
That's a blog post. I got my info from here:
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
See: image resizing
> 50,000 monthly resizing requests included with Pro, Business. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests