The open source Vercel alternative you actually own.
Ship gives you the Vercel experience on your own infrastructure. No bandwidth surprises. No per-user pricing. 100 percent GDPR compliant. Built for founders who value sovereignty over vendor lock-in.
Why Ship is the leading open source Vercel alternative
Choose an open source Vercel alternative for enterprise-grade deployments without the SaaS tax or US-cloud data residency risks.
Stop the Vercel tax
Usage-based pricing is a trap for growing companies. Vercel charges for bandwidth, serverless execution, and every single team member. Those small fees turn into massive monthly bills. Ship runs on flat-rate German servers. You pay for the hardware, not the privilege of using it. Your costs stay predictable even as your traffic spikes.
GDPR by default
Vercel is a US company. Your data often crosses the Atlantic. For European businesses, this is a compliance headache. Ship on Opsily is 100 percent sovereign. Your code and your data live on bare-metal infrastructure in Falkenstein, Germany. No Privacy Shield worries. No data residency questions from your legal team.
No vendor lock-in
Ship is an open source Vercel alternative. You own the configuration. You own the environment. If you ever decide to leave Opsily, you can take your entire setup with you. You are not trapped in a proprietary ecosystem. You have the freedom to move your infrastructure whenever you want. That is true developer sovereignty.
Why teams are ditching the managed cloud
Convenience is expensive. In the early days, Vercel feels like magic. You push code and it just works. But as your company grows, that magic comes at a steep price.
The hidden fees of serverless
Managed platforms hide their margins in complex usage metrics. You pay for edge middleware. You pay for image optimization. You pay $20 per month for every developer who needs access to the dashboard. By the time you realize how much you are spending, your entire stack is locked into their proprietary APIs.
Owning your infrastructure
Ship offers a different path. It provides the same Git-push-to-deploy workflow you love. It handles SSL, custom domains, and zero-downtime deployments. The difference is the foundation.
Instead of a shared black box, you get a dedicated virtual private server. You see the CPU usage. You control the memory. You decide when to scale. You get the power of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with the transparency of a raw VPS.
Built for the modern founder
Marcus does not have time to manage Linux updates. He just wants his site to load fast and his bill to stay the same. Ship on Opsily automates the boring parts of server management so you can focus on building your product. It is the middle ground between the "Vercel Tax" and the "DIY DevOps" headache.
Ship vs. Vercel
A side-by-side look at what you pay and what you get.
Pricing based on Vercel Pro vs. Opsily Small Plan. Information accurate as of April 2024.
Simple, Sovereign Pricing
Choose the server that fits your traffic. All plans include automated Ship updates and German hosting.
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Secure. Compliant. German.
We don't just say we are private. We prove it by using the right infrastructure in the right jurisdiction.
GDPR Compliant
Data processing happens entirely within the European Union. Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) are not needed because your data never leaves Germany.
ISO 27001 Hosting
Our data center partners maintain the highest global standards for information security management and physical data protection.
Sovereign Infrastructure
We use 100 percent European-owned hardware. No US Cloud Act concerns. No foreign government backdoors. Your data is your business.
Daily Backups
Every server includes automated, encrypted off-site backups. We keep your data safe so you can sleep at night without worrying about server failure.
Deploy in 4 steps
Move from Vercel to your own sovereign cloud in under ten minutes.
Choose Your App
Select an app to get started.
Pick your server
Select a server size that matches your current traffic. You can scale up or down at any time with one click. No long-term contracts.
Connect GitHub
Link your GitHub or GitLab repository. Ship automatically detects your framework: Next.js, Remix, Vue, or static HTML.
One-click install
Click install. Ship handles the Docker configuration, the Nginx reverse proxy, and the SSL certificates for your domain.
Go live
Your site is live on your own German IP. Every time you push code to your main branch, Ship automatically rebuilds and deploys the update.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about switching to an open source Vercel alternative.
An open source Vercel alternative is a platform that provides the same developer experience: automated builds, deployments, and SSL management: using open source software. Instead of being locked into Vercel's proprietary infrastructure, you use tools like Ship that run on standard Linux servers. This gives you full control over your data, your environment, and your costs. It is the best of both worlds: the ease of a PaaS with the freedom of open source.
Take back control of your infrastructure
Join the teams moving away from expensive, usage-based cloud lock-in. Start your sovereign deployment today.