# From Vercel to Cloud Run

> Moving a Next.js app from Vercel to Cloud Run: the standalone build, images, caching, cron and environment variables, and both bills.

<https://exodus.elim.io/blog/topic/from-vercel>

This topic covers moving a Next.js app off Vercel. The guide builds the standalone server into a container, shows what replaces Vercel's image optimization, data cache, cron and preview deployments on Google Cloud, moves the environment variables to Secret Manager, and prices the same app on Vercel and on Cloud Run for the same traffic.

- [Moving a Next.js app from Vercel to Cloud Run](https://exodus.elim.io/blog/vercel-to-cloud-run.md): Vercel builds, caches, schedules and previews a Next.js app; on Cloud Run each is a piece you set up once. When the move pays, the container, secrets, cron, previews, the domain, and both bills.
