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Google Cloud Run vs Vercel: which is more reliable? (2026)
Google Cloud Run is more reliable than Vercel, scoring 72.8 vs 66.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud Run reported 3 incidents and Vercel reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.59% and 99.58% respectively. Vercel resolves incidents faster on average (1h 32m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud Run | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 72.8 | 66.8 |
| Rank (app hosting platforms) | #5 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.59% | 99.58% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 9 |
| Avg time to resolve | 4h 39m | 1h 32m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud Run and Vercel differ
- Vercel reported 7.7× as many incidents as Google Cloud Run over the last 90 days (23 vs 3).
- Vercel had 9 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Google Cloud Run.
- Vercel fixes problems faster: 1h 32m on average, against 4h 39m for Google Cloud Run (3.1× quicker).
- Google Cloud Run's longest outage on record lasted 6h 8m (Oct 20, 2026); Vercel's lasted 6h 36m (Oct 12, 2026).
90-day uptime
Google Cloud Run
Vercel
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Google Cloud Run incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent Vercel incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 1h 2m
Delays in Logs and Observability data
Affected: Logs, Observability
- Partial outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 6h 36m
Increased build and deployment failuresofficial update ↗
Affected: Builds, Git Integrations
- Partial outageOct 10, 2026 · resolved in 1h 21m
Delays in Drains, Observability, and Workflow in Washington (iad1)
Affected: Drains, Logs, Observability, Queues, Workflow
- Partial outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 16m
Vercel Auth login failures for pages with Deployment Protection enabled
Affected: Routing Middleware
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 25m
Elevated Sandbox error rates in Paris (cdg1)
Affected: Sandbox
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 27m
Build failures and 500 errors for functions using Edge runtime
Affected: Builds
Other app hosting platforms to consider
- DigitalOcean App Platform · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- Heroku · #2 · 99.95% uptime
- Koyeb · #3 · 99.64% uptime
- Render · #4 · 99.71% uptime