# Vercel ships apps. artifact.guru shares what your AI made.

Vercel is built for shipping web apps at scale: Git deploys, preview links, functions and instant rollback on a global network. artifact.guru is for sharing what your AI made with people who don’t code: no repo, no build, and you see who opened it.

## Pick Vercel if

- You’re shipping a real app with serverless functions, Git deploys and a preview link per branch.
- Your reviewers have Vercel accounts and you want comments pinned to the page.
- You want your own domain on a free plan for a personal, non-commercial project.

## Pick artifact.guru if

- Your AI made a page, deck or doc and it should become a link in one step, with no repo or build.
- You want to invite clients by email and see who opened it, and who hasn’t.
- Your files include PDF, Word or PowerPoint and they should open in the browser too.

## Vercel and artifact.guru, row by row

| Question | Vercel | artifact.guru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Publish from AI agents | Official MCP server (OAuth) deploys files from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor; CLI too | Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok and any MCP app, over OAuth; no API keys |
| Upload it yourself | Vercel Drop: drag a file, folder or .zip into the browser, no Git or CLI needed | Drag in files, or a whole folder for a built site or React app |
| What opens in the browser | Static sites and framework apps it detects and builds, such as Next.js | HTML, React, Markdown, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, diagrams, zipped sites |
| Who can open a link | Vercel login on all plans; password $20/project/month on Pro; your IdP on Enterprise | Private, public or secret code on every plan; email invites (up to 50) on paid plans |
| Who opened it | Web Analytics on all plans: visitors, page views, referrers, country, device; anonymized | Paid plans: names on email links; counts, sources and devices on the rest |
| Updates and versions | Each deploy has its own URL; instant rollback of production (Hobby: previous deploy only) | Every change is a new version at the same link; roll back any time (Free keeps 3) |
| Your own domain | Custom domains on every plan, Hobby included; Pro adds one free first-year domain | Your subdomain for public and secret-code links, from $12 a month |
| Team workspace | Pro: $20 per developer seat, free viewer seats, roles; Hobby has one developer seat | Team: one workspace, admins and members, a project per client, comments you can assign |
| Price | Hobby free (non-commercial); Pro $20/month per developer seat; Enterprise custom | Free $0; Individual $12/month; Team $30/month for 3 editors, then $8 each |

## Where Vercel is good

- Every Git push gets its own deployment URL, serverless functions run beside your pages, and instant rollback restores an earlier production deploy.
- Its official MCP server works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor and can deploy files without Git, and Claude Design can send a design straight to Vercel.
- Vercel login now protects production free on every plan, invited reviewers can comment on previews, and Enterprise teams can make visitors sign in through their own identity provider.

## Where artifact.guru is different

- No repo and no build. Agents publish over MCP from Claude, ChatGPT (Business, Enterprise or Edu), Codex, Gemini CLI and Grok after one approval in the browser.
- PDF, Word and PowerPoint open in the browser, next to HTML, React, Markdown and Mermaid. The original file is always downloadable.
- Invite up to 50 email addresses per artifact and see who opened it, when, how often and who hasn’t yet.
- Every publish or edit is a new version at the same link, with rollback any time. An agent edit never overwrites a change someone else made in between.

## Moving over from Vercel

1. Add artifact.guru to your agent as a remote MCP server and approve it once in the browser.
2. Ask the agent to publish the page, or drag in the built folder: a built site becomes one artifact.
3. Choose who can open it (Private, Email, Secret code or Public), then send the link.

## Questions

### Can’t I just send a Vercel preview link?

You can. Invites and shareable links work on every plan, but an invited viewer needs a Vercel account to open a protected deployment, and Hobby allows one shareable link per account and one invited collaborator at a time. artifact.guru email links show who opened them, and PDF, Word and PowerPoint files open in the browser too.

### Does Vercel have password protection?

Yes. Since September 2026 it costs $20 per protected project per month on Pro, it’s included on Enterprise, and it isn’t available on Hobby. artifact.guru uses 8-character secret codes that can expire, plus email invites.

### Can reviewers leave comments on the page?

On Vercel, yes: people with a Vercel account and access can comment on previews, and threads can link to Slack. On artifact.guru, people you invite by email comment in a panel beside the artifact rather than on the page, and your agent can read and resolve those comments over MCP.

### Is Vercel’s free plan fine for client work?

Vercel’s Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial use, so client work means Pro at $20 per developer seat per month. artifact.guru’s paid plans start at $12 a month.

## Sources

What this page says about Vercel comes from its own pages, checked on October 8, 2026. Plans and prices change; if something is out of date, tell us at [Support](https://artifact.guru/support).

- [Vercel pricing](https://vercel.com/pricing)
- [Deployment Protection docs](https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-protection)
- [Deployment Protection usage and pricing](https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-protection/usage-and-pricing)
- [Vercel Authentication docs](https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-protection/methods-to-protect-deployments/vercel-authentication)
- [Shareable Links docs](https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-protection/methods-to-bypass-deployment-protection/sharable-links)
- [Sharing a preview deployment](https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/sharing-deployments)
- [Vercel Passport docs](https://vercel.com/docs/passport)
- [Vercel MCP docs](https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/vercel-mcp)
- [Vercel MCP deployment tools](https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/vercel-mcp/tools/deployments)
- [Changelog: Vercel MCP can now deploy code](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-mcp-can-now-deploy-code)
- [Changelog: Password Protection per project on Pro](https://vercel.com/changelog/password-protection-now-costs-20-per-project-per-month-on-pro)
- [Changelog: protect production free on every plan](https://vercel.com/changelog/protect-production-deployments-for-free-on-every-plan)
- [Vercel Drop docs](https://vercel.com/docs/drop)
- [Deploy a Claude Design project to Vercel](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/claude-design)
- [Vercel Web Analytics docs](https://vercel.com/docs/analytics)
- [Instant Rollback docs](https://vercel.com/docs/instant-rollback)
- [Vercel Comments docs](https://vercel.com/docs/comments)
- [Vercel Pro plan docs](https://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan)
- [Vercel Hobby plan docs](https://vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby)
- [Vercel team roles](https://vercel.com/docs/rbac/access-roles/team-level-roles)

Source: https://artifact.guru/alternatives/vercel