Vercel free tier includes Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 28 alternatives in Cloud Hosting.
Subtypes in Cloud Hosting:static_site — serves prebuilt files from a CDN; there is no server process you control; serverless_function — your code runs per request with no long-lived instance, billed by invocation or CPU time. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://vercel.com/docs, where it says: “Ship anything with Vercel”How we use this.
Limits, pricing history, and 28 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-22.
Vercel's free tier offers Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only… We rate it stable. 2 recorded changes narrowed the terms, the most recent on 2026-02-01. Best for cloud hosting workloads — 28 alternatives available.
⚠️ Pricing change: New Pro projects now default to Turbo build machines (30 vCPUs, 60GB memory) at $0.126/minute — 9x more expensive than Standard machines ($0.014/min). Pro plan still $20/seat/month with $20 usage credit, but real-world build costs for moderate teams can hit $400+/month. Standard machines still available but must be manually selected. Source ↗ (effective 2026-02-01)View in changelog →
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-09-22, found a change we then refused to record, because it named no figure that had moved. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-26 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.
Free Tier Details
Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only. Includes 100 GB Fast Data Transfer, 1M Edge Requests, 1M Function Invocations, 4 hours Fluid Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Fluid Provisioned Memory, 1 GB Blob Storage and 5K image transformations a month. Hobby accounts are limited to these caps and cannot buy more usage. Pro is $20 a month with one deploying seat; each additional deploying seat is $20 a month.
We read that on 2026-09-22 from https://vercel.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Vercel as "vercel" and states "$0" and "100 GB / month" and "1M allowed requests / month" and "1 GB / month". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
Vercel restricts Hobby to non-commercial personal use: a deployment used for anyone's financial gain, including a paid employee or consultant writing the code, needs a Pro or Enterprise plan. (From vercel.com/docs/limits/fair-use-guidelines, read 2026-10-04.)
In most cases, exceeding Hobby plan usage limits requires waiting 30 days before using the feature again. (From vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby, read 2026-10-07.)
On Hobby, Vercel's terms let it use your content to train its AI models and share it with third parties for their model training; you can opt out in your team settings. (From vercel.com/legal/terms, read 2026-10-07.)
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 28 alternatives in Cloud Hosting are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-28). Retracted 2026-09-28: no change. vercel.com/pricing listed the same Hobby allowances on 2026-09-04 and 2026-09-08, as on 2026-01-01 and 2026-04-01. The "then starting at" prices are Pro's on-demand rates; Hobby accounts are capped at the included amounts and cannot buy more usage. Source ↗
New Pro projects now default to Turbo build machines (30 vCPUs, 60GB memory) at $0.126/minute — 9x more expensive than Standard machines ($0.014/min). Pro plan still $20/seat/month with $20 usage credit, but real-world build costs for moderate teams can hit $400+/month. Standard machines still available but must be manually selected. Source ↗
Before: Pro plan: Standard build machines at $0.014/min (default). Turbo available as opt-in upgrade
After: Pro plan: Turbo build machines at $0.126/min (default, 30 vCPUs, 60GB RAM). Standard still available via manual opt-out. 9x cost increase for builds if not changed
Pro plan moved to credit-based model ($20/mo credit pool), Hobby plan metrics renamed and restructured — bandwidth→Fast Data Transfer, serverless split into Active CPU + Provisioned Memory, Blob Storage and Image Transformations added Source ↗
After: Hobby: 100 GB/mo Fast Data Transfer, 4 hrs Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Provisioned Memory, 1M edge requests, 1 GB Blob Storage, 5K image transformations. Pro: $20/mo credit pool across all resources, SAML SSO and HIPAA included
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Yes, Vercel offers a free tier: Hobby. Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only. Includes 100 GB Fast Data Transfer, 1M Edge Requests, 1M Function Invocations, 4 hours Fluid Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Fluid Provisioned Memo...
What is Vercel's free tier?
Vercel's free tier is called "Hobby". Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only. Includes 100 GB Fast Data Transfer, 1M Edge Requests, 1M Function Invocations, 4 hours Fluid Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Fluid Provisioned Memory, 1 GB Blob Storage and 5K image transformations a month. Hobby accounts are limited to these caps and cannot buy more usage. Pro is $20 a month with one deploying seat; each additional deploying seat is $20 a month. Vercel restricts Hobby to non-commercial personal use: a deployment used for anyone's financial gain, including a paid employee or consultant writing the code, needs a Pro or Enterprise plan. (From https://vercel.com/docs/limits/fair-use-guidelines, read 2026-10-04.) In most cases, exceeding Hobby plan usage limits requires waiting 30 days before using the feature again. (From https://vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby, read 2026-10-07.) On Hobby, Vercel's terms let it use your content to train its AI models and share it with third parties for their model training; you can opt out in your team settings. (From https://vercel.com/legal/terms, read 2026-10-07.) Hobby teams get 10 GB of Deployment Storage; going over it can block new deployments until you delete some. (From https://vercel.com/changelog/hobby-projects-now-retain-fewer-deployments-to-free-up-storage, read 2026-10-07.)
Is Vercel's free tier reliable?
Vercel's free tier is considered stable. 2 recorded changes narrowed the terms, the most recent on 2026-02-01. See the pricing history below.
Is Vercel's free tier good for production?
Vercel's free tier is not for commercial use, by Vercel's own terms: "Hobby teams are restricted to non-commercial personal use only. All commercial usage of the platform requires either a Pro or Enterprise plan." (From vercel.com/docs/limits/fair-use-guidelines, read 2026-10-04.) Personal, non-commercial use of the free tier is still allowed. We rate Vercel's pricing stable. This rating is about how its terms have changed, not what they allow. 2 recorded changes narrowed the terms, the most recent on 2026-02-01. For commercial use, consider free alternatives in Cloud Hosting.
What changed in Vercel's pricing?
Vercel has had 2 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: New Pro projects now default to Turbo build machines (30 vCPUs, 60GB memory) at $0.126/minute — 9x more expensive than Standard machines ($0.014/min). Pro plan still $20/seat/month with $20 usage credit, but real-world build costs for moderate teams can hit $400+/month. Standard machines still available but must be manually selected. Source: https://vercel.com/pricing (2026-02-01).
What are the best free alternatives to Vercel?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 28 free alternatives to Vercel in Cloud Hosting, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 17 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 10 are demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Vercel's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Vercel in?
Vercel is categorized under Cloud Hosting on AgentDeals. We list 28 other Cloud Hosting services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.
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