The Vercel SSO alternative built for internal HTML sharing
Vercel is a deployment platform for web applications. Using it to share an HTML file with your company costs $320+/month and requires a git project. display.dev publishes any HTML file behind company SSO in 15 seconds. $49/month flat. No git repo required.
display.dev vs. Vercel
| display.dev | Vercel | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (company-wide) | $49 flat | $320+ |
| Google SSO | ✅ Included | $300/mo add-on |
| Microsoft SSO | ✅ Included | $300/mo add-on |
| File upload (no git project) | ✅ | ❌ |
Publish CLI (dsp publish ./file.html) | ✅ | ❌ |
| MCP for Claude Desktop | ✅ | ❌ |
| Unlimited viewers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Per-seat pricing | ❌ | ✅ ($20/seat) |
| Setup time | 15 seconds | 20–30 minutes |
The price difference is $271/month
Vercel Pro starts at $20/seat/month. Add the SAML SSO add-on: $300/month. For a team of 5 engineers with 100 colleagues who need to view internal content, that's $400+/month – for one project.
display.dev Pro: $49/month. Unlimited viewers. Both Google and Microsoft SSO included. Every artifact your team publishes, under one flat price.
Vercel is excellent – for deploying applications
Vercel was built for web application deployment. Build pipelines, framework optimization (Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit), edge functions, preview deployments for pull requests, CI/CD integration. It's a great product for shipping products.
It was not built for publishing internal documents. You cannot upload an HTML file to Vercel. Every artifact requires a git-connected project. The SSO features are designed for protecting permanent application deployments, not for sharing the HTML report that Claude Code generated this morning.
What Vercel can't do for internal sharing
- No file upload
- Vercel requires a git repository.
dsp publish ./report.htmldoesn't exist in Vercel's model. You commit, push, create a project, connect the repo, and deploy – for each file. - No CLI for ad-hoc publishing
- The Vercel CLI deploys projects. It doesn't publish individual files.
- SSO is per-project, not per organization
- At $300/month per SSO-protected deployment, sharing 10 internal artifacts means $3,000/month. display.dev's organization model covers unlimited artifacts at $49/month.
- Non-technical users have no path
- PMs and analysts can't use Vercel's CLI or git workflow. display.dev's MCP integration lets them say "publish this to my team" in Claude Desktop and get a company-gated URL back.
Workflow comparison
Vercel (with SSO, new project):
- Create a git repository
- Commit the HTML file
- Create a Vercel project, connect the repository
- Enable the $300/month SAML SSO add-on
- Configure your identity provider
- Deploy
- Share URL
⏱ ~25 minutes for first artifact. $320+/month recurring.
display.dev:
dsp publish ./report.html⏱ 15 seconds. $49/month flat.
When to use Vercel
You're deploying a web application with a build pipeline, a git repo, and an engineering team maintaining it. You need framework optimization, edge functions, or CI/CD integration. You already have Vercel Enterprise and the SSO cost is sunk.
When to use display.dev
You have an HTML file – from Claude Code, Cursor, a CI pipeline, or a data export – and you need your company to see it. You don't want to create a git project. You want a CLI command or MCP tool. You want Google and Microsoft SSO at $49/month flat, not $320/month per project.
Pricing
Try it. No credit card.
- Included: 10 gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts*
- Included: 50MB storage
- Not included: Version history
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Private artifacts
- Not included: Audit logs
display.dev branded
Individuals. Unlimited gated sharing.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 1GB storage
- Included: 10 versions
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Private artifacts
- Not included: Audit logs
For teams that need company auth.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 25GB storage
- Included: 50 versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: Private artifacts
- Included: 90 days audit logs
For compliance-driven organizations.
From $499/mo
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: Custom storage
- Included: Unlimited versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: Private artifacts
- Included: 365 days audit logs
Try display.dev free
- $49/month flat – not $320+/month, not per-project SSO billing
- No git repo required – upload any HTML file directly
- First artifact in 15 seconds · No credit card
Features
Viewers click a link and sign in with their Google or Microsoft account, or a one-time password. No app to install. No account to create. No IT ticket.
Inline comments on every artifact. Your agent reads them via MCP, fetches the current version, republishes with short_id and base_version, and resolves the thread. The artifact stays a living document, not a one-shot screenshot.
dsp publish ./file.html from your terminal, or one sentence in Claude Desktop. No git repo, no deploy pipeline, no project to configure.
Every artifact gets a URL that keeps working. Share in Slack, link in Notion, paste in email. It still works six months later.
No per-seat pricing at any tier. Share with your PM, exec, legal team, or designer for the same flat price.
Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor all work, along with anything else that creates HTML or Markdown output.
Common questions.
Can I use Vercel for internal HTML sharing on the free tier?
No. Vercel's Hobby (free) tier does not include password protection or SSO. All hosted content is public.
What if I already use Vercel for our main product?
Keep using it. Use display.dev for artifact publishing alongside it. Vercel deploys your application; display.dev publishes your internal documents and reports. Most teams use both.
Does display.dev do anything Vercel does for application deployment?
No. display.dev doesn't support build pipelines, edge functions, framework optimization, or CI/CD from git. It publishes HTML and Markdown files behind company auth. Different tools for different jobs.
What about Vercel password protection – isn't that $150/month instead of $300/month?
Password protection uses a shared credential, not identity-based auth. Anyone who knows the password can view the content – no per-user audit trail, no domain restriction. It's meaningfully weaker than SSO for anything sensitive.
Can I see who published each version, human or agent?
Yes. display.dev attributes every version and comment to the agent and the human it acted for, in the comment thread and the audit log. See how identity works.
Publish your first artifact in 15 seconds.
Free tier. No credit card. One-time password auth on free, Google + Microsoft SSO on Teams ($49/month flat).