Canner vs. Vercel
Vercel built the modern deploy experience. We built the Canadian version of it.
Vercel is exceptional for global edge applications. If your data must remain subject only to Canadian law, you're choosing from a very short list — and Canner is the one designed for that constraint from day one.
- Both let you git push and get a live HTTPS URL in seconds. Canner hosts everything in Quebec; Vercel runs on a global edge.
- Vercel is a US Delaware corporation. Even with regional data residency add-ons, US authorities can compel disclosure under the CLOUD Act. Canner has no US affiliate of any kind.
- Vercel pricing is in USD with per-member fees on team plans. Canner is flat CAD, no per-seat billing.
- Postgres, object storage, cron jobs, cookieless analytics and a SQL data workspace are built into Canner — on Vercel most are separate add-ons or third-party services.
| Feature | Canner | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| Data location | Montreal, Quebec — sole region | Global edge: US, EU, Asia regions |
| Company jurisdiction | 100% Canadian-owned, operates from Quebec | Delaware (US) corporation |
| CLOUD Act exposure | Not subject — no US person status | Subject — US-incorporated entity |
| Law 25 and PIPEDA posture | Compliant by architecture; written attestation on request | Possible via DPA and regional add-ons |
| Currency and billing | CAD; flat per account, no per-seat fees | USD; per-member fees on team plans |
| Cheapest paid tier | $9 / month (Live) | US$20 / member / month (Pro) |
| Managed Postgres | Included on every plan: one database per project on Starter, several on paid plans; storage is one pooled limit per organization (5 / 25 / 100 GB) | Vercel Postgres was discontinued; existing databases moved to Neon in December 2024 and new projects use Marketplace integrations † |
| Backups & point-in-time recovery | Scheduled encrypted backups with the retention you set, restore into a new database or in place, backup verification with email alerts, copies to your own buckets. Point-in-time recovery (1–35 days) with the Dedicated instance add-on ($9/mo per project) | Via Neon: restore window of 6 hours on Free, up to 7 days on Launch, up to 30 days on Scale; history billed at $0.20/GB-month † |
| Extensions & logical replication | Dedicated instance add-on: pgvector, PostGIS, pg_trgm, pg_cron and more; logical replication out to your own subscribers, or follow an external server for a no-downtime migration | Via Neon: pgvector and PostGIS supported; pg_cron runs only while compute is active; logical replication as publisher or subscriber † |
| Canadian region for the database | Montreal, Quebec — the only region, Canadian-owned | Neon has no Canadian region (three in the US, plus Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo) † |
| Custom domains with auto-TLS | Included on Live | Included on Hobby and above |
| Preview deployments | Yes, one per pull-request branch | Yes, one per branch |
| Languages & runtimes | Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Java, BoxLang, static & Vite | Next.js native; JS/Python/Go/Ruby serverless funcs |
| Scheduled jobs (cron) | Built-in on every plan — prioritized on Live | Cron Jobs (limited on Hobby) |
| SQL data workspace | Built-in Data Workshop (DuckDB SQL over your files) + scheduled SQL against your Postgres | No equivalent |
| Cookieless analytics | Built-in, cookieless — no consent banner | Web Analytics — paid add-on |
| Object storage | Included — S3-style, from Starter up | Vercel Blob — usage-priced |
| CLI, REST API & MCP | CLI, REST API (OpenAPI 3.1) + MCP server for AI agents | CLI + REST API; no MCP server |
| Energy source | Hydro-Québec grid — over 99% renewable | Varies by region; net-zero pledged |
† Competitor details come from each vendor's own published pages on the dates shown; prices and plans change, so check the vendor before you decide. Managed Postgres (2026-09-26) · Backups & point-in-time recovery (2026-09-26) · Extensions & logical replication (2026-09-26) · Canadian region for the database (2026-09-26)
When Canner is the right call
If your data must stay subject only to Canadian and Quebec law — healthcare, fintech, public sector, or any organisation that has read the CLOUD Act carefully — that requirement narrows your choices to a handful of platforms. Canner is the one designed for that constraint from day one. Quebec ownership, Quebec hosting, no global edge, no US holding company anywhere in the structure.
When Vercel still makes sense
If you serve a global audience and edge latency matters more than data jurisdiction, Vercel is hard to beat. Their Next.js integration is unmatched, the Hobby tier is genuinely generous, and their infrastructure scales further than ours will any time soon. If you don't need data residency in Canada and want maximum framework polish, the honest answer is: go with Vercel.
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