Vercel named a Visionary in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms

The Frontend Cloud is designed for developers and teams that care deeply about user experiences. Whether you're serving billions of users or building your first project, the Frontend Cloud helps you remove friction from the development and delivery process. This allows you to focus on building your product instead of managing and configuring the infrastructure required to make it work.

“When you prioritize an excellent developer experience, you boost developer productivity. And this benefits your users directly because it allows your engineers to spend more time creating the best software and user experience that they can, and less time getting bogged down by things like deployment, DevOps, and architecture.When you prioritize an excellent developer experience, you boost developer productivity. And this benefits your users directly because it allows your engineers to spend more time creating the best software and user experience that they can, and less time getting bogged down by things like deployment, DevOps, and architecture.”

Jonathan Melville, Principal Team Leader at Chick-fil-A

Today, Vercel is proud to be recognized as a Visionary; we view this Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms report as a validation of the Frontend Cloud ecosystem.

Gartner evaluated 12 cloud application platform vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. "By abstracting the complexities associated with infrastructure management, cloud application platforms enable product teams to deliver faster customer value," said Gartner. "Visionaries have a clear vision of the future and are making significant investments in the development of unique technologies."

Empowering developers, building the future

From supporting the latest frameworks to integrating AI capabilities, Vercel is committed to evolving the web as place where everyone can bring ideas to life. Vercel helps companies and developers achieve their goals through innovations including:

• Framework-defined infrastructure reimagining how infrastructure automatically adapts to a developer's code, not the other way around

• AI SDK providing the tools you need to build AI-powered products fast and with minimal code

• Vercel Marketplace seamlessly connecting first-party services to your Vercel projects

• v0 empowering engineers with AI coding assistant, while non-technical team members bring ideas to life faster without knowing how to code through a generative chat interface

• Vercel Web Application Firewall (WAF) blocking billions of malicious requests, ensuring all apps are secure by default

• Next.js enabling developers to create ambitious web applications—becoming the React framework trusted by some of the world's largest companies

“A lot of the value we get from Vercel is things we don't have to think about. Initial load performance is just as important as interaction performance, but we spend so much less time thinking about load performance because of the optimizations Vercel offers us.A lot of the value we get from Vercel is things we don't have to think about. Initial load performance is just as important as interaction performance, but we spend so much less time thinking about load performance because of the optimizations Vercel offers us.”

Charlton Roberts, Senior Manager of Product Engineering at Frame.io

Built for developers, trusted by enterprises

We're honored to see that the next wave of innovative companies are choosing Vercel. From startups to enterprises, teams are recognizing the value of a platform that allows them to focus on their core product while we handle the complexities of deployment, scaling, and performance optimization.

The Vercel community is at the heart of everything we do. From the millions of developers using Next.js and the AI SDK to the thousands of developers who contribute to the Vercel ecosystem, we’re building the web of the future together.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Application Platforms, By Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, Anne Thomas, Steve Schwent, 4 November 2024.

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