---
name: Appwrite
domain: appwrite.io
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.62
---

# Appwrite

An open-source backend-as-a-service platform providing auth, databases, storage, functions, messaging, realtime, and web hosting to frontend and full-stack developers.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Its Sites product is explicitly marketed as 'the open-source Vercel alternative', and the page includes a direct 'Appwrite vs. Vercel' comparison, meaning a buyer evaluating Vercel would shortlist Appwrite and pick one.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Appwrite is an open-source platform for building and scaling applications faster, offering Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Realtime, and web hosting - all in one place.

> Sites The open-source Vercel alternative.

> Appwrite vs. Vercel

**Edges:**

- discusses [[dev-to]]
- competitor [[nextjs-tw]]
- competitor [[expo-dev]]
- competitor [[staticwebsitehosting-org]]
- competitor [[redis-io]]
- competitor [[railway-com]]
- competitor [[aws-amazon-com]]
- competitor [[firebase-google-com]]
- competitor [[render-com]]
- competitor [[netlify-com]]
- competitor [[vercel-com]]
- dependency [[northflank-com]] *(inferred)*
- integration [[digitalocean-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[firebase-google-com]] *(inferred)*
