Vercel is a deployment platform for web applications. Using it to share an HTML file with your company costs $320+/month and requires a git project. display.dev publishes any HTML file behind company SSO in 15 seconds. $49/month flat. No git repo required.
| display.dev | Vercel | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (company-wide) | $49 flat | $320+ |
| Google SSO | ✅ Included | $300/mo add-on |
| Microsoft SSO | ✅ Included | $300/mo add-on |
| File upload (no git project) | ✅ | ❌ |
Publish CLI (dsp publish ./file.html) | ✅ | ❌ |
| MCP for Claude Desktop | ✅ | ❌ |
| Unlimited viewers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Per-seat pricing | ❌ | ✅ ($20/seat) |
| Setup time | 15 seconds | 20–30 minutes |
Vercel Pro starts at $20/seat/month. Add the SAML SSO add-on: $300/month. For a team of 5 engineers with 100 colleagues who need to view internal content, that's $400+/month — for one project.
display.dev Teams: $49/month. Unlimited viewers. Both Google and Microsoft SSO included. Every artifact your team publishes, under one flat price.
Vercel was built for web application deployment. Build pipelines, framework optimization (Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit), edge functions, preview deployments for pull requests, CI/CD integration. It's a great product for shipping products.
It was not built for publishing internal documents. You cannot upload an HTML file to Vercel. Every artifact requires a git-connected project. The SSO features are designed for protecting permanent application deployments, not for sharing the HTML report that Claude Code generated this morning.
No file upload. Vercel requires a git repository. dsp publish ./report.html doesn't exist in Vercel's model. You commit, push, create a project, connect the repo, and deploy — for each file.
No CLI for ad-hoc publishing. The Vercel CLI deploys projects. It doesn't publish individual files.
SSO is per-project, not per-workspace. At $300/month per SSO-protected deployment, sharing 10 internal artifacts means $3,000/month. display.dev's workspace model covers unlimited artifacts at $49/month.
Non-technical users have no path. PMs and analysts can't use Vercel's CLI or git workflow. display.dev's MCP integration lets them say "publish this to my team" in Claude Desktop and get a company-gated URL back.
Vercel (with SSO, new project):
⏱ ~25 minutes for first artifact. $320+/month recurring.
display.dev:
dsp publish ./report.html⏱ 15 seconds. $49/month flat.
You're deploying a web application with a build pipeline, a git repo, and an engineering team maintaining it. You need framework optimization, edge functions, or CI/CD integration. You already have Vercel Enterprise and the SSO cost is sunk.
You have an HTML file — from Claude Code, Cursor, a CI pipeline, or a data export — and you need your company to see it. You don't want to create a git project. You want a CLI command or MCP tool. You want Google and Microsoft SSO at $49/month flat, not $320/month per project.
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No. Vercel's Hobby (free) tier does not include password protection or SSO. All hosted content is public.
Keep using it. Use display.dev for artifact publishing alongside it. Vercel deploys your application; display.dev publishes your internal documents and reports. Most teams use both.
No. display.dev doesn't support build pipelines, edge functions, framework optimization, or CI/CD from git. It publishes HTML and Markdown files behind company auth. Different tools for different jobs.
Password protection uses a shared credential, not identity-based auth. Anyone who knows the password can view the content — no per-user audit trail, no domain restriction. It's meaningfully weaker than SSO for anything sensitive.
Free tier. No credit card. One-time password auth on free, Google + Microsoft SSO on Teams ($49/month flat).