# Vercel — How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-03T04:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/how-factory-scaled-its-cloud-backend-to-one-billion-monthly-requests-on-vercel
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20680-how-factory-scaled-its-cloud-backend-to-one-billion-monthly-requests-on-vercel
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Factory runs its entire cloud backend on a single Next.js application on Vercel, handling one billion daily requests with a p95 response time of 350ms. Non-technical teams use Factory's own Droids to build and deploy internal tools via Vercel's APIs without engineering involvement. Vercel's Observability and Web Application Firewall provide route-level protection against automated attacks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/how-factory-scaled-its-cloud-backend-to-one-billion-monthly-requests-on-vercel:

> Today, a single Next.js backend on Vercel powers every surface, handling one billion daily requests across API routes, middleware, and webhook handlers, without becoming a separate engineering project.

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