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vercel vs cloudflare on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, cloudflare leads vercel vs cloudflare with 66,973 mentions to vercel’s 11,585, peaking in Nov 2025.

Mention-over-time for vercel vs cloudflare, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

vercel11,585 mentions, peak Apr 2026cloudflare66,973 mentions, peak Nov 2025
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How the lead changed hands

The deploy-platform rivalry: Cloudflare carries the CDN/edge conversation for years, then Vercel surges on the Next.js wave and the two trade blows as both push into edge functions and full-stack hosting.

The stories behind each line

Top vercel stories
  1. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack 1,154 points · 2025
  2. Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time 907 points · 2021
  3. Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative 498 points · 2024
  4. Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby 442 points · 2025
Top cloudflare stories
  1. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory 3,238 points · 2017
  2. Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2,432 points · 2025
  3. Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem 1,465 points · 2025
  4. Cloudflare acquires Deno 1,368 points · 2026

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