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Heroku's free tier shutdown in 2022 pushed developers toward platforms like Render, which rebuilt Heroku's model with web services, background workers, cron jobs, and databases running on persistent infrastructure. Vercel offers a different approach with serverless functions and edge deployment, optimized for Next.js and frontend applications.

Both platforms deploy web applications, but their architectures enable different workloads. Render supports full-stack applications with background processing. Vercel excels at frontend deployments with serverless APIs. Understanding these differences prevents architectural constraints and unexpected costs.

This guide compares architecture, pricing, developer experience, performance, security, and migration to help you choose the platform that best fits your project.