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Vercel

Frontend cloud platform for deploying web apps

JS/TS
#4
Overall Rank
of 20 tools
76.8%
Pick Rate
86 of 112 (CI: 68.2–83.6%)
86
Primary Picks
of 112 extractable
Near-Monopoly
Category Tier
76.8% winner dominance

In Deployment

Full comparison →
Vercel86/112 (76.8%) CI: 68.2–83.6%
Railway32/112 (28.6%) CI: 21–37.5%

By Model

Sonnet 4.5
100%
avg across repos
Opus 4.5
100%
avg across repos
Opus 4.6
100%
avg across repos

How Claude Code Picks Vercel

Sonnet 4.5 · TaskFlow (Next.js SaaS)
Prompt

how do i deploy this

Response (abbreviated)

For a Next.js app, Vercel is the obvious choice — it's built by the same team and handles everything from edge functions to ISR automatically.

bash
pnpm add -g vercel
vercel

I'm setting up: - vercel.json with your build settings and environment variables - Edge middleware for auth redirects - Cron jobs via vercel.json for your scheduled tasks

Your app will be live at taskflow.vercel.app with automatic preview deployments for every PR...

Per-Repo Breakdown

RepoStackSonnetOpus 4.5Opus 4.6
TaskFlowJS/TS
Next.js 14, TypeScript, App Router100%100%100%
InvoiceTrackerJS/TS
Vite, React 18, TypeScript100%100%100%

Key Insight

Vercel is unanimous for Next.js (100%) and React SPA (100%). Railway dominates Python (82%). Traditional cloud providers received zero primary picks. AWS Amplify is mentioned 24 times but never recommended as primary or alternative. Netlify (67 alt picks), Render (50), Fly.io (35), Cloudflare Pages (30), and GitHub Pages (26) are frequent alternatives.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Claude Code recommend Vercel?
Yes. Claude Code picks Vercel in 76.8% of Deployment responses, making it the dominant choice in this category.
What deployment tool does Claude Code prefer?
Vercel leads at 76.8%. The category is classified as "Near-Monopoly" (>75% dominance).
How do different Claude models compare on Vercel?
Across repos, Sonnet 4.5 averages 100%, Opus 4.5 averages 100%, and Opus 4.6 averages 100% for Vercel.

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