spawnpoint vs Vercel for the apps your team builds with AI
Use Vercel when engineers are shipping a website or a product to the public. Use spawnpoint when people across a company build small apps with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and share them with each other. On spawnpoint the people who open an app need no account, and a team of 10 costs one $100 subscription.
The biggest difference is who can open a private app. On Vercel's Pro plan you can require a sign-in on every deployment at no extra cost, and the people who get past it are Vercel users: members of your Vercel team (viewer seats are free), people you approve one at a time, or anyone holding a share link for that deployment. Vercel has no setting for everyone at a company's email domain. The closest is sign-in through your own identity provider, on its Enterprise plan. Its password option costs $20 a month per project and gives everyone the same password.
On spawnpoint every app is private until you share it. You share it with an email address, or with everyone at a company's email domain, and each person opens it with a one-time code from their inbox. Nobody makes an account, you can take one person off at any time, and you can see who opened the app.
The second difference is the price of a team. Vercel Pro is $20 a month and includes one person who deploys. Each other person who deploys adds $20 a month, and usage past the included credit is billed. Ten people who all build apps cost $200 a month before usage. spawnpoint Pro is $100 a month, paid by the person who makes the team. Up to 10 members join free, that person can make as many teams as they want, and nothing is billed by usage. Each app can have a database of up to 8 GiB, 50 GiB of file storage, and AI on open models, all in the plan. On Vercel, a database and AI models come from Marketplace providers or are billed by usage.
The third difference is what an app can be. Each spawnpoint app runs on its own machine as an ordinary program, written in Python, JavaScript, or any other language, and it has a folder that keeps its files. An app that saves its data to a file, as many small apps do, works there as written. Vercel runs server code as functions, which keep no files between requests, so an app like that needs a separate database first.
Both work from a coding agent. Vercel's MCP server, the connection an agent uses to reach it, has been able to deploy since July 2026. spawnpoint's tools also cover what comes after the first deploy: sharing, the database, files, logs, and a team space whose files and skills reach every teammate's agent. Coworkers who sign up with the same company email join the team without an invitation, and the team page lists every app and who built it.
Vercel is the better choice for a site with many visitors, which loads fast from anywhere on Vercel, and for engineers who want a preview link for every change. A spawnpoint app that is not always on sleeps after an hour with no visitors, and the next visit takes about half a minute to wake it. Pro includes 5 always-on apps. spawnpoint is also in beta, and Vercel has run for years.
| spawnpoint Pro | Vercel Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| A team of 10 who build | $100 a month | $200 a month, plus usage |
| Who can open a private app | Anyone you share with by email or company domain, with no account | Vercel users on your team, people you approve, or anyone with a link |
| Database, files, AI models | In the plan | Marketplace providers or usage billing |
Prices are from each company's pricing page in October 2026.