Vercel Cost Optimization
OhChimp reads your Vercel projects and deployments to cut preview-build churn and archive stale projects. Each change is a plan you read before it runs.
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.
Worked example
For example, say OhChimp reads your team and finds one project that produced over 200 preview deployments in the last 30 days, plus three projects that have not deployed in more than 90 days but still hold live domains.
It drafts one plan to add an Ignored Build Step and restrict branch deploys on the busy project, and another to archive the three stale projects and release their domains. You press apply on each. Vercel does not expose per-build dollars through its API, and OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single Vercel plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED. The saving stays an estimate, and when the 30 days of monitoring end the result reads "Inconclusive."
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?
Today Vercel savings stay estimates. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single Vercel plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED, and when the 30 days of monitoring end the result reads "Inconclusive." The only savings OhChimp measures today come from lowering the CPU and memory requests of a Kubernetes Deployment, StatefulSet, or DaemonSet. Pricing is flat monthly, OhChimp never takes a cut of your savings, and paid plans carry a year-one ROI guarantee that lets you request a refund of your first 12 months of subscription fees if the verified savings on your Costs tab fall short of them. Estimated savings do not count.
Related integrations
Teams running Vercel usually run these too. OhChimp finds the waste in each and drafts every fix as a plan you approve.
AWS
Idle compute, storage class, reserved coverage
Render
Oversized services, idle instances, plan fit
Google Cloud
Idle VMs, disk tiers, committed-use discounts