Stay on a platform
Marketing sites and most MVPs. Image CDN, preview deploys, and a bill you can read. Our cloud-and-launch floor is $190 because this path is short.
Move to a cloud account
You need a VPC, a queue, GPU inference, or a data-residency letter. Then we use the $190 to $390 cloud work as a real landing, not a lift-and-shift theatre.
Questions
Will I be locked in?
The app is Next.js and Postgres. Leaving Vercel is a DNS and env change, not a rewrite.