Vercel Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Vercel including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 45/100
Is Vercel free?
Yes — the Hobby plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $20.00/month (Pro).
The free plan includes
- 100 GB Fast Data Transfer/month
- 1M CDN requests and 1M function invocations/month
- 4 hours Active CPU and 360 GB-hrs provisioned memory
- 5,000 image transformations
- Basic build machine (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
- Functions up to 300s
Free plan limits
- Users: 1 developer
- No commercial use, no collaboration on private repos, 100 deployments/day, 1 concurrent build, 1 hour of runtime logs, no email support
Watch out: Personal, non-commercial use only. No overage purchasing: when a limit is exceeded you usually wait 30 days or upgrade.
Plans & Pricing
- 100 GB Fast Data Transfer/month
- 1M CDN requests and 1M function invocations/month
- 4 hours Active CPU and 360 GB-hrs provisioned memory
- 5,000 image transformations
- Basic build machine (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
- Functions up to 300s
- Automatic HTTPS and preview deployments
User limit: 1 developer
- Custom usage and concurrency (100k+)
- SSO/SAML and advanced security
- 99.99% SLA
- Dedicated support
- Custom SSL certificates
User limit: Custom
Storage: Custom
- $20/month usage credit
- 1 TB Fast Data Transfer and 10M CDN requests included
- Functions up to 800s (1800s beta), 4 GB memory
- Elastic build machines
- Spend Management (default $200 budget alerts)
- Email support
- 1 day of runtime logs
User limit: 1 developer seat included; extra developer seats $20/month; unlimited free viewer seats
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Bandwidth overages cause surprise bills - $150 per extra TB
Pro includes 1 TB of Fast Data Transfer per month, then charges from $0.15/GB (about $150 per extra TB), plus $2 per million CDN requests over the included amount. Cost write-ups show bandwidth and edge requests, not seats, driving most of the bill once a site passes ~250k monthly visitors, and bot or scraper traffic can trigger the same overages.
Fluid compute bills spike from Active CPU and provisioned memory
Pro now bills functions by Active CPU ($0.128/hour) and provisioned memory ($0.0106/GB-hour). Waiting on AI or database calls no longer counts as CPU, but instances kept warm by frequent cron jobs, bots or long streams still accrue memory charges. Community threads describe compute line items jumping several times over with no matching traffic increase.
Spend limits only alert by default - usage keeps billing
Spend Management is now on by default for new Pro teams with a $200 on-demand budget and 50/75/100% alerts. But a budget alone does not stop usage: you must enable Pause Production Deployments, which takes every project offline, and Vercel checks spend only every few minutes, so charges can overshoot.
Every developer seat costs $20/month on Vercel Pro
Pro is a $20/month platform fee that includes one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit; each extra developer (Owner or Member) seat costs $20/month. Since September 2025 read-only Viewer seats are free, which helps teams with reviewers, but a 10-developer team still pays $200/month before any usage.