It's the usual PaaS convenience tax, you end up paying an order of magnitude or ...

		jsheard 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Ima... It's the usual PaaS convenience tax, you end up paying an order of magnitude or so premium for the underlying bandwidth and compute. AIUI Vercel runs on AWS so in their case it's a compound platform tax, AWS is expensive even before Vercel adds their own margin on top.

I would call it ignorance tax, paas can be fine if you know what you are doing.