The Vercel alternative for internal sharing
Everything you share with Vercel,
without the git project.
Vercel is a deployment platform for web applications. Using it to share an HTML file with your company needs a Vercel project. Sign-in through your own identity provider needs the Enterprise plan. Display publishes any HTML or Markdown file behind company sign-in. €49/month flat. No git repo required.
The demo shows an agent publishing a doc to display.dev – from a chat or a terminal – then a teammate opening its URL, selecting Edit, changing a number on the page and saving v2, a colleague commenting on v2, the agent publishing v3 at the same URL and resolving the comment, and the doc being shared with someone outside the company.
Cursor, Codex, Claude Code – any agent that writes a file. Switch agents anytime – your URLs, versions and comments stay put.
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display.dev vs. Vercel
| display.dev | Vercel | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (company-wide) | €49 flat | Pro is per seat. Password Protection is $20 per project |
| Company sign-in (Google + Microsoft) | ✅ Pro, included | Enterprise only (Passport) |
| Upload a file (Vercel Drop) | ✅ | ✅ Creates a new project each time |
| Agent publishing (CLI and MCP) | ✅ | ❌ |
| MCP for Claude Desktop | ✅ | ❌ |
| Unlimited viewers | ✅ | Vercel Authentication admits only people with a Vercel account |
| Per-seat pricing | ❌ | ✅ |
| Setup | Ask your agent | A project, a deploy and protection settings |
Vercel facts checked on 14 October 2026 on vercel.com.
The price difference
- Vercel
- Vercel Authentication is on every plan, but it admits only people with a Vercel account and access rights. Password Protection costs $20 per month for each protected project on Pro. Sign-in through your own identity provider needs the Enterprise plan, at a custom price.
- Display
- €49/month on Pro. Unlimited viewers. Google and Microsoft sign-in included. Every artifact your team publishes, at one flat price.
Vercel is excellent – for deploying applications
- What it was built for
- Build pipelines, framework optimization for Next.js, Remix and SvelteKit, edge functions, preview deployments on pull requests, CI/CD from git. It is a strong product for running a web application.
- What it was not built for
- Publishing a document. Vercel Drop uploads files, but each drop creates a new project. Its protection settings guard application deployments, not the report Claude Code generated this morning.
What Vercel can't do for internal sharing
Vercel's route to one protected HTML file is a project, a deploy and protection settings. Setup takes longer and needs more steps. Viewers who are not on your Vercel team need a different method.
Display covers unlimited artifacts for one organization at €49/month. A PM can ask Claude Desktop for a company-gated link.
- ✗Each upload is a projectVercel Drop uploads files, but it creates a new project for each drop.
- ✗No agent publishing for one fileThe Vercel CLI deploys projects, not individual documents.
- ✗Protection is per projectPassword Protection is $20 a month for each protected project on Pro. Ten internal artifacts is $200 a month.
- ✗Identity-provider sign-in is Enterprise onlyPassport has a custom price.
From file to authenticated URL
short_id and base_version and the same link shows the new version.Who can open it
A public URL, no sign-in, for anything you would happily post in a tweet.
Named email addresses only – the right level for a client or a contractor you don't want inside company sign-in.
Anyone signing in with a verified company domain gets in, through Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra ID. Viewers are unlimited and free on every plan.
You change the level any time. Move an artifact from company-gated to public and back. The URL stays the same.
When to use which
- Vercel
- 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. You already pay for Vercel Enterprise and the SSO cost is sunk.
- display.dev
- You have an HTML file from Claude Code, Cursor, a CI pipeline or a data export. Your company needs to read it. No git project, no deploy. An agent publishes it through the CLI or MCP. Google and Microsoft sign-in, €49/month flat.
Pricing
Try it. No credit card.
- Included: 3 gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts*
- Included: 50MB storage
- Not included: Version history
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Audit logs
display.dev branded
Individuals. Unlimited gated sharing.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 1GB storage
- Included: 10 versions
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Audit logs
For teams who need SSO & audit logs.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 25GB storage
- Included: 50 versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: 90 days audit logs
For compliance-driven organizations.
From €499/mo
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: Custom storage
- Included: Unlimited versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: 365 days audit logs
Try display.dev free
- €49/month flat – not per-seat pricing, not per-project protection fees
- No git repo required – upload any HTML file directly
- First artifact in 15 seconds · No credit card
Features
Viewers click a link and sign in with their Google or Microsoft account, or a one-time password. No app to install. No account to create. No IT ticket.
Inline comments on every artifact. Your agent reads them via MCP, fetches the current version, republishes with short_id and base_version, and resolves the thread. For a small fix, your team selects Edit and changes the page directly. Every change lands at the same URL.
Ask your agent to publish the file to Display, in your terminal or in Claude Desktop. No git repo, no deploy pipeline, no project to configure.
Every artifact gets a URL that keeps working. Share in Slack, link in Notion, paste in email. It still works six months later.
No per-seat pricing at any tier. Share with your PM, exec, legal team, or designer for the same flat price.
Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code all work, along with any agent that creates HTML or Markdown output.
Common questions.
Can I use Vercel for internal HTML sharing on the free tier?
Not for your whole company. Vercel's Hobby (free) plan has Vercel Authentication, which admits only people with a Vercel account. Password Protection is not available on Hobby.
What if I already use Vercel for our main product?
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.
Does display.dev do anything Vercel does for application deployment?
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.
What does Vercel Password Protection cost?
On Pro it costs $20 a month for each protected project (checked on 14 October 2026). 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.
Can I see who published each version, human or agent?
Yes. display.dev attributes every version and comment to the agent and the human it acted for, in the comment thread and the audit log. See how identity works.
Publish your first artifact in 15 seconds.
Free tier. No credit card. One-time password auth on free, Google + Microsoft SSO on Pro (€49/month flat).