--- title: "Vercel: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "Vercel, a host or CDN: 2 of 5 checklist rows read are met by default, with 6 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/vercel site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Vercel: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist > Vercel, a host or CDN: 2 of 5 checklist rows read are met by default, with 6 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/vercel Site: Agent Ready Checklist Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Agent endpoints: https://agentreadychecklist.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadychecklist.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadychecklist.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadychecklist.com/ask (search) Access: https://agentreadychecklist.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadychecklist.com/pricing.md (free). # Vercel Vercel builds and serves Next.js and other frameworks. Vercel's bot protection and AI bots rulesets ship switched off and exclude verified bots, which meets AR-FIND-01 and VERCEL-ROBOTS-EXCLUSIONS. Pro costs USD 20 a month. Markdown negotiation is left to the framework or middleware, and a knowledge-base guide shows how to make a site readable by AI agents. ## At a glance Type [Host or CDN](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/host/) Homepage [vercel.com](https://vercel.com), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Checklist rows 5 of 31 read: **2** supported, 2 partial, 1 no statement In the crawl 156 of 7,545 home pages counted on 2026-11-04. Counted from the crawl's headers and generator tags, an undercount for hosted builders. Last read 2026-11-05 ## What it does for this layer - Vercel's bot protection managed ruleset "is inactive by default"; in the dashboard it is labelled Off and matching traffic reaches the application. primary source: [vercel.com/docs/bot-management](https://vercel.com/docs/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Vercel's bot protection ruleset automatically excludes verified bots, such as Google's crawler, from evaluation. primary source: [vercel.com/docs/bot-management](https://vercel.com/docs/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Vercel Firewall has an AI bots managed ruleset alongside the bot protection ruleset and a verified bots directory. primary source: [vercel.com/docs/bot-management](https://vercel.com/docs/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Vercel bot management can use JavaScript challenges to verify human presence. primary source: [vercel.com/docs/bot-management](https://vercel.com/docs/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Vercel's knowledge base guide "Make your site readable by AI agents" says it is grounded in over 1,000 real agent runs and a controlled experiment with the ora.ai research lab. primary source: [vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents), read 2026-11-05 - Vercel's pricing page offers Hobby, Pro and Enterprise plans, with Hobby described as "The perfect starting place for your web app or personal project". primary source: [vercel.com/pricing](https://vercel.com/pricing), read 2026-11-05 ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vercel Hobby | Free plan for personal projects. | Free; vercel.com/pricing | 2026-11-05 | | Vercel Pro and Enterprise | Team plans with Firewall controls and higher limits. | From USD 20 per month for Pro, which includes 20 USD of usage credit; Enterprise is listed as custom; vercel.com/pricing | 2026-11-05 | ## Standards | Row | What it asks | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AR-FIND-01 | Do not block agents | supports | Bot protection and AI bots rulesets are off by default and verified bots are excluded. | vercel.com/docs/bot-management | | AR-READ-01 | Answer in the initial HTML | no statement | Initial HTML depends on the framework deployed. | none | | CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | Markdown by Accept | partial | Markdown negotiation is built in the framework or middleware; no host toggle was found. | vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents | | VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS | Markdown headers | partial | The guide describes Content-Type and Vary for markdown; the project implements them. | vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents | | VERCEL-ROBOTS-EXCLUSIONS | Robots exclusions | supports | Vercel adds no robots rules; its guide advises deliberate exclusions only. | vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents | ## Checks on its own site | Reading | Result | Date | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cloudflare scan of vercel.com | 67 of 100, band L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | isitagentready.com | | Crawl row for vercel.com | 6 of 10 checks pass; Tranco rank 3,040 | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Home pages counted in the crawl | 156 of 7,545; Counted from the shared crawl of 2026-11-04 by x-vercel-id response header or a Vercel server header; the generator rule only sees tags whose name attribute comes first, so it undercounts | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Check | Result | Verify Kit check | | --- | --- | --- | | robots.txt allows all 17 agent tokens at / | pass | robots-verdicts | | robots.txt blocks no search or user-fetch token | pass | robots-verdicts | | Home page has an h1 and 50 words in the initial HTML | pass | initial-html | | A missing path returns 404 or 410 | fail | status-codes | | /llms.txt exists | pass | llms-linked | | Home page links to llms.txt | fail | llms-linked | | Accept: text/markdown returns text/markdown | pass | markdown-negotiation | | Home page carries JSON-LD that parses | pass | json-ld | | OpenAPI linked from the home page or served at /openapi.json | fail | openapi | | /.well-known/mcp.json serves JSON | fail | mcp-or-cli | ## What it does not do - Vercel does not turn on bot protection or AI bot blocking unless the team enables the rulesets. - Vercel does not convert pages to markdown at the edge in the docs read. ## Reading notes The Pro price is printed on vercel.com/pricing as read on 2026-11-05; Enterprise is listed as custom. ## Related pages on this site Recipes [Next.js](https://agentreadychecklist.com/platforms/nextjs-app-router/) ([checklist view](https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/nextjs-app-router/checklist/)), [Static hosting](https://agentreadychecklist.com/platforms/static-hosting/) ([checklist view](https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/static-hosting/checklist/)) Same recipe page [AWS Amplify Hosting](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/aws-amplify/), [Cloudflare Pages and Workers](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/cloudflare/), [Eleventy (Build Awesome)](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/eleventy/), [Firebase Hosting](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/firebase-hosting/), [Gatsby](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/gatsby/), [GitHub Pages](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/github-pages/), [Hugo](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/hugo/), [Jekyll](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/jekyll/), [Medusa](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/medusa/), [Netlify](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/netlify/), [Next.js](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/nextjs/), [Payload](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/payload/), [Render](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/render/) Same type [Hosts and CDNs](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/host/), [all vendors](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/) ## Sources - [vercel.com](https://vercel.com)read 2026-11-05 - [vercel.com/docs/bot-management](https://vercel.com/docs/bot-management)read 2026-11-05 - [vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents)read 2026-11-05 - [vercel.com/pricing](https://vercel.com/pricing)read 2026-11-05 - [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/)read 2026-11-05 - [agentreadychecklist.com/data/](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/)read 2026-11-04 Edition Data 2026-11-04 Reviewed 2026-11-05 Spec AgentReady v2.0, 273d2d7 Crawl 13,071 rows, 2026-11-04 Ora 132 checks, contract 1.38.0, 2026-11-05 Verify with Ora The scanner this site recommends for the whole checklist. 132 checks, a score out of 100, no account. `npx ax@0.10 audit --min-score ` [Why Ora, and its limits](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/) Method - [How rows, commands and rates are made](https://agentreadychecklist.com/method/) - [How an Ora check is matched to a row](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/) - [Pass rates by rank band](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/by-rank/) Sources and read dates sit at the foot of the page. Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.