--- title: Vercel Services description: Vercel Services let you deploy multiple backends and frontends within a single Vercel project. url: "https://vercel.com/kb/vercel-services" published: 2026-06-30 last_updated: 2026-06-30 install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin --- # Vercel Services Vercel Services let you deploy multiple backends and frontends within a single Vercel project. ## Getting Started with Vercel Services - [The Complete Guide to Vercel Services](/kb/guide/vercel-services): Vercel Services let you deploy multiple frontends and backends in one project on a shared domain. Learn how to define services in vercel.json, route requests by path prefix, and connect services with generated environment variables. - [How Vercel Services run on Fluid compute](/kb/guide/vercel-services-fluid-compute): The backends in a Vercel Services project run as Vercel Functions on Fluid compute by default. Learn how optimized concurrency, Active CPU pricing, and per-service memory and maxDuration settings make multi-backend projects efficient. - [Choosing how to structure your application on Vercel](/kb/guide/structure-your-application): Compare three ways to structure an application on Vercel (a single framework, one project with Services, or separate projects in a monorepo) and learn how to choose based on domains, deploy coupling, and languages. ## Use Services to Deploy an App - [Build Notion-style real-time presence with WebSockets on Vercel](/kb/guide/real-time-presence-hono-react): Build the avatar faces that appear when a teammate opens a page and vanish when they leave. Powered by a Hono WebSocket server with React, deployed as a single Vercel project with Services. - [Build Figma-style multiplayer cursors with WebSockets on Vercel](/kb/guide/real-time-board-nextjs-fastapi): Learn how to build Figma-style multiplayer cursors with Next.js and FastAPI, kept consistent across multiple Vercel Function instances using WebSockets and Redis. ## Learn more about Vercel Services - [Introduction to Services](https://vercel.com/docs/services): For example, a Next.js frontend and a FastAPI backend in the same repository deploy together with shared routing, environment variables, and a unique domain, replacing the need to split monorepos into separate Vercel projects. - [Services routing and communication](https://vercel.com/docs/services/routing): When a project has multiple services, Vercel merges their routes into a single routing table and distributes incoming requests based on each service's route prefix. ## All Vercel Services guides - [Deploy Symfony on Vercel with Docker](/kb/guide/symfony-php-with-docker): Build a Symfony application with FrankenPHP and Docker, then deploy it to Vercel with production configuration, external storage, and preview deployments. - [Deploy Laravel on Vercel with Docker](/kb/guide/laravel-php-with-docker): Build a Laravel application with FrankenPHP and Docker, then deploy it to Vercel with production configuration, external storage, and preview deployments. - [Full-stack previews on Vercel](/kb/guide/full-stack-preview-deployments-on-vercel): Learn how to use full-stack previews for your Vercel projects. Deploy Next.js, FastAPI, and a containerized Go service together in one project, then review every cross-service change through one preview URL. - [How to migrate from Fly.io to Vercel](/kb/guide/migrate-fly-io-to-vercel): Move a containerized app from Fly.io to Vercel. Map fly.toml to Dockerfile.vercel and vercel.json, replace Machines with Fluid compute, move volumes to external storage, and cut over without downtime. - [Deploy PHP on Vercel with Docker](/kb/guide/deploy-php-on-vercel-with-docker): Build a PHP application with FrankenPHP and Docker, then deploy it to Vercel Functions with managed configuration, storage, and preview deployments. - [How to migrate from Render to Vercel](/kb/guide/migrate-render-to-vercel): Migrate from Render to Vercel: map web services, cron jobs, and containers to their equivalents, and handle what doesn't move. - [How to migrate from Google Cloud Run to Vercel](/kb/guide/migrate-cloud-run-to-vercel): Migrate from Cloud Run to Vercel by copying your Dockerfile to Dockerfile.vercel, aligning the PORT contract, moving secrets, and mapping jobs to cron. - [Deploy Rust on Vercel with Docker](/kb/guide/deploy-rust-on-vercel-with-docker): Build a Rust application with Axum and Docker, then deploy it to Vercel Functions. Learn how to configure environment variables, managed storage, and preview deployments for your project. - [How to migrate from Railway to Vercel](/kb/guide/migrate-railway-to-vercel): Move an app from Railway to Vercel. Most Railpack-built apps deploy through framework detection with no container; Dockerfile apps move as Dockerfile.vercel. Map railway.json to vercel.json and cut over safely. - [Deploy ASP.NET Core on Vercel with Docker](/kb/guide/dot-net-asp-net-on-vercel-with-docker): Build a .NET application with Docker and deploy it to Vercel Functions. Learn how to configure environment variables, integrations, and preview deployments for your ASP.NET Core application. - [Deploy a Node.js Fastify app on Vercel with Docker](/kb/guide/deploy-nodejs-on-vercel-with-docker): Build a Node.js application with Fastify and Docker, then deploy it to Vercel Functions. Learn how to configure environment variables, managed storage, and preview deployments for your project. - [Does Vercel support Kubernetes?](/kb/guide/vercel-kubernetes-support): Vercel doesn't run Kubernetes clusters. Learn how Kubernetes workloads like Deployments, Ingress, ConfigMaps, and CronJobs map to Vercel Functions, container images, and Cron Jobs. - [Translate Kubernetes manifests to vercel.json](/kb/guide/kubernetes-manifests-to-vercel-json): Translate Kubernetes Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, and CronJobs into vercel.json configuration and Vercel project settings. - [Does Vercel support Docker deployments?](/kb/guide/does-vercel-support-docker-deployments): Vercel supports deploying OCI-compatible container images through Vercel Functions and Vercel Container Registry, with Active CPU pricing and automatic scaling. - [How Docker Compose concepts map to Vercel](/kb/guide/docker-compose-concepts-on-vercel): Translate your Docker Compose file to Vercel: Compose services become Vercel Services, networks become bindings, and volumes become Marketplace databases and Vercel Blob. - [How to test a container image in Vercel Sandbox before deploying](/kb/guide/test-container-image-vercel-sandbox): Validate a container image before deploying by booting it as a custom Sandbox image from Vercel Container Registry (VCR) or running Docker inside a Vercel Sandbox. - [Deploy Go apps on Vercel using Docker](/kb/guide/deploy-go-using-docker-vercel): Deploy an existing Dockerized Go app to Vercel using Memos as a real-world example, with Neon Postgres for durable data. - [Deploy Python apps on Vercel using Docker](/kb/guide/vercel-docker-python-apps): Deploy a Dockerized Python application that depends on native software, OCR engines, or small local models, plus a Next.js frontend, on Vercel Services. - [Running Docker on Vercel vs Render](/kb/guide/docker-on-vercel-vs-render): Compare how Vercel and Render run Docker workloads, including deployment model, scaling, image sources, state, and networking. - [How to use Vercel Container Registry](/kb/guide/how-to-use-vercel-container-registry): Push, store, and pull OCI container images with Vercel Container Registry, then deploy them to Vercel Functions and Vercel Sandbox. - [Running Docker on Vercel](/kb/guide/docker): Learn how to run Docker on Vercel by deploying OCI container images as Vercel Functions, storing them in Vercel Container Registry (VCR), and running containers in Vercel Sandbox. - [Build Figma-style multiplayer cursors with WebSockets on Vercel](/kb/guide/real-time-board-nextjs-fastapi): Learn how to build Figma-style multiplayer cursors with Next.js and FastAPI, kept consistent across multiple Vercel Function instances using WebSockets and Redis. - [Choosing how to structure your application on Vercel](/kb/guide/structure-your-application): Compare three ways to structure an application on Vercel (a single framework, one project with Services, or separate projects in a monorepo) and learn how to choose based on domains, deploy coupling, and languages. - [The Complete Guide to Vercel Services](/kb/guide/vercel-services): Vercel Services let you deploy multiple frontends and backends in one project on a shared domain. Learn how to define services in vercel.json, route requests by path prefix, and connect services with generated environment variables. - [How Vercel Services run on Fluid compute](/kb/guide/vercel-services-fluid-compute): The backends in a Vercel Services project run as Vercel Functions on Fluid compute by default. Learn how optimized concurrency, Active CPU pricing, and per-service memory and maxDuration settings make multi-backend projects efficient. - [Build Notion-style real-time presence with WebSockets on Vercel](/kb/guide/real-time-presence-hono-react): Build the avatar faces that appear when a teammate opens a page and vanish when they leave. Powered by a Hono WebSocket server with React, deployed as a single Vercel project with Services. ## Explore other topics in the Vercel Knowledge Base - [Jev from TypeSafe AI](/kb/jev-from-typesafe-ai): Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model for fast, typed decisions. It evaluates supplied context and returns choices, scores, and probabilities that applications can use to classify requests, route tasks, and assess proposed actions without generating prose. - [Vercel Sandbox](/kb/vercel-sandbox): The compute primitive designed to safely run untrusted or user-generated code on Vercel. - [FDE Field Notes](/kb/fde): Insights from our work with customers. Explore the patterns, diagnostics, and recommendations Vercel’s Forward Deployed Engineers use in production. - [Software Factory](/kb/software-factory): Software factories put an agent on every stage of your development loop: triage, planning against a live repo checkout, implementation verified with your own checks, and independent review. Work items become draft PRs while you keep the judgment calls.