Vercel Ship 2026 recap
By Steven Van ·
Vercel's Ship 2026 recap covers its agentic infrastructure pitch and reports 28x more agent-triggered deployments and 3x more developers in a year.
Vercel's Ship 2026 conference drew thousands of people across London, Berlin, New York, Sydney and San Francisco. Vercel's recap centres on what the company calls agentic infrastructure.
Three parts of agentic infrastructure
Guillermo Rauch, Vercel's CEO, opened Ship SF at the Palace of Fine Arts. He described interfaces generated for any task, agents that reproduce and fix bugs on their own, and software that uses production context to keep improving itself. Vercel splits the idea into three parts:
- Build and deploy your own apps and agents. Vercel says it provides the tools to run both in production, securely and at scale.
- Coding agents deploy to Vercel. The company says there are over 200 CLI commands an agent can use to operate the platform.
- Agents automate Vercel itself. Vercel runs apps in production and handles traffic, traces, observability and anomalies. It says that data lets its agents investigate on their own and surface pull requests, not just alerts.
Usage figures
Rauch used Vercel's own data from the last 12 months to argue that developers are not being replaced:
- The number of developers on Vercel has grown 3x.
- The number of new projects shipped has doubled.
- Agent-triggered deployments have increased 28x.
Backends on Vercel
In the next keynote, CTO Malte Ubl covered running frontends, APIs, backend services, containers, MCP servers and background workers on the platform.