Vercel Cost Optimization
OhChimp reads your Vercel projects and deployments to cut preview-build churn and archive stale projects, with savings verified on your real invoice.
What OhChimp optimizes for Vercel
Some of the cost levers OhChimp checks for Vercel. Each one becomes a reviewable plan you approve before anything changes.
High preview-deployment churn
Every push to a branch triggers a preview build, and those builds burn build minutes and edge requests. OhChimp counts preview deployments per project over your window and flags projects that run past a heavy cadence of roughly 7 builds a day (more than 200 preview deployments in a 30-day window). The plan points at an Ignored Build Step or branch-deploy restrictions so the high-churn projects stop rebuilding on every commit.
Stale projects sitting idle
Projects that have not deployed in 90+ days still hold onto domains, environment variables, and integrations that can keep billing. OhChimp reads each project's most recent deployment timestamp, ranks the oldest first, and drafts an archive-or-delete plan to clear the orphaned domains and integrations behind them.
Preview vs production deployment split
It helps to know how much of your activity is production traffic versus preview noise. OhChimp tallies production and preview deployments per project across the window. You can see which projects generate mostly throwaway preview builds and target your build-minute cleanup where it lands.
Project and deployment inventory
Sprawl hides cost. OhChimp pages through your project list and deployment activity, counts what is actually live, and tells you plainly when the data is truncated so the numbers stay honest. That inventory is what every Vercel finding is built on.
Vercel cost optimization FAQ
How does OhChimp connect to Vercel?
With a read-only Vercel access token sent as a Bearer credential. OhChimp verifies it against GET /v2/user, and against your team via GET /v2/teams/{team_id} when you set a team ID. It reads project and deployment metadata only and never stores application data, secrets, or workload contents.
Does OhChimp need write access or see my code?
No. The Vercel token is used read-only to list projects and deployment activity. OhChimp reads metadata like project names, frameworks, deployment targets, and timestamps. It never reads your source, environment-variable values, secrets, or workload contents.
What Vercel costs can OhChimp actually reduce?
The build-minute and edge-request churn from projects with high preview-deployment volume, and the sprawl from stale projects (no deployment in 90+ days) that still hold domains, environment variables, and integrations. Vercel does not publish per-build dollars in its public API, so OhChimp reports the activity volumes that drive those costs and the fixes that cut them.
Who applies the changes, and can they be rolled back?
You do. Each fix is a reviewable plan with a confidence score, a risk level, and rollback steps. Nothing changes until you click apply, and you are always the one who clicks. It is never an autopilot.
How are the savings verified, and what does OhChimp cost?
Against your real Vercel invoice. A plan is marked VERIFIED only after 7 or more days, a drop of at least 10%, and 3 consecutive positive checks. Until then it stays flagged "not implemented." Pricing is flat monthly, OhChimp never takes a cut of your savings, and paid plans carry a year-one ROI guarantee: a full refund of subscription fees if it does not pay for itself in the first 12 months.
Related integrations
Teams running Vercel usually run these too. OhChimp finds the waste in each and proves it on the bill.
AWS
Idle compute, storage class, reserved coverage
Render
Oversized services, idle instances, plan fit
Google Cloud
Idle VMs, disk tiers, committed-use discounts