NuxtLabs joins Vercel
NuxtLabs, the company behind the Nuxt fullstack web framework and the Nitro server runtime, is joining Vercel. Nuxt is used by hundreds of thousands of developers, including some of the largest companies in the world, and sees more than 1 million downloads every week. Nitro, the server runtime built for consistency across frameworks and platforms, powers APIs and AI agents, functioning as a portable standard for web frameworks in the same way the Open Container Initiative standardized containers.
The NuxtLabs team, led by Sebastien Chopin, original creator of Nuxt, includes key maintainers such as Daniel Roe, Pooya Parsa, and Anthony Fu. The team's work has shaped a widely adopted ecosystem in modern web development.
"We're joining a company that shares our values and is helping us go further without compromising on what makes Nuxt special. Our open source team is coming along, and we'll continue working on Nuxt and Nitro with the same focus and care. The projects stay MIT-licensed. The roadmap stays public. The community stays at the center."
— Sébastien Chopin, CEO at NuxtLabs and creator of Nuxt
Independence and governance
Nuxt and Nitro will remain independent, open source projects under the MIT license with a public roadmap and open governance. Nitro will continue to serve all frameworks and vendors without lock-in. The acquisition is framed as part of Vercel's broader open SDK strategy, which emphasizes high cohesion with its infrastructure, loose coupling by design, and open-by-default principles. Vercel has said it intends to support open source projects not just with infrastructure but with long-term investment.
Roadmap ahead
In the coming months, several commercial Nuxt products will transition to free and open source status: Nuxt Studio MDC, Nuxt UI Pro, and NuxtHub Admin. The announcement emphasizes that the focus on Nuxt and Nitro development will remain unchanged, with the community continuing to be the center of the projects' evolution.
