For pure deployment simplicity, Vercel wins on frontend and serverless projects, while Heroku stays simpler for full backend apps with a database. Vercel launched in 2015 as ZEIT and was renamed in 2020, built around zero-config deploys for frameworks like its own Next.js; Heroku has run on the same git-push, buildpack-and-dyno model since 2007.
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