May 26, 2026 (1mo ago)
Written by Temps Team
Last updated May 26, 2026 (1mo ago)
Vercel's Hobby plan in 2026 caps out at 100GB bandwidth, 1M edge requests, 4 CPU-hours of compute, and 100 build minutes per month — free, but restricted to 1 seat and non-commercial use only. Hit any limit and Vercel pauses your deployment rather than billing an overage. Once you need commercial use, more seats, or higher ceilings, the paid Pro tier starts at $20/seat/month plus usage. All figures sourced from Vercel's pricing page.
Quick answer: Vercel Hobby plan limits in 2026 are 100GB bandwidth, 1M edge requests, 4 CPU-hours of compute, and 100 build minutes per month, capped at 1 seat and non-commercial use only — no uptime SLA, and no overage billing (Vercel pauses your site instead). Upgrading to Pro removes the commercial-use restriction and raises limits to 1TB bandwidth and 10M edge requests for $20/seat/month. Full limit-by-limit table and Pro pricing breakdown below.
On Hobby and hitting a limit, or need commercial use? Temps self-hosts for free with no bandwidth, build-minute, or seat caps, and no non-commercial restriction — or run Temps Cloud for approximately $6/mo flat instead of $20/seat/month for Pro. It includes git-push deployments, preview environments, web analytics, error tracking, and session replay in a single binary. A 5-person team on Vercel Pro pays $100/mo before any overages; the same team on Temps pays ~$6/mo total.
Already on Pro and want the full pricing breakdown? Pro costs $20/seat/month plus usage — $0.15/GB bandwidth after 1TB, $0.128/CPU-hour for compute, and build minutes from $0.014/min (Standard) to $0.105/min (Turbo, default since February 2026). A solo developer's minimum bill is $20/month; a 5-person team starts at $100/month before any overages. Jump to the per-seat cost breakdown below.
Related: All Vercel plans overview: Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise compared
Vercel offers three tiers. The Hobby plan is free but non-commercial — running a SaaS, store, or monetized app violates the terms. Pro is the commercial tier at $20/seat/month. Enterprise starts around $45,000/year based on a median of 63 purchases tracked by Vendr.
| Hobby (Free) | Pro ($20/seat/mo) | Enterprise (~$45K/yr) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial use | No | Yes | Yes |
| Seats | 1 | Unlimited ($20/each) | Custom |
| Viewer seats | — | Unlimited (free) | Unlimited (free) |
| Bandwidth | 100GB | 1TB | Custom |
| Edge Requests | 1M | 10M | Custom |
| Compute (CPU) | 4 CPU-hours (paused on limit) | $0.128/CPU-hr | Custom |
| Build minutes | 100 min | Pay-per-use | Custom |
| Spending credit | — | $20/month | Custom |
| Uptime SLA | None | 99.9% | 99.99% |
The free Hobby plan pauses your site when any limit is reached — there's no overage billing, just a hard stop. If you're shipping anything commercial, you need Pro.
Pro seats are $20/month each, billed monthly or annually. Viewer seats (stakeholders, designers, QA reviewers) are unlimited and free — only members who deploy or configure projects consume paid seats.
| Team size | Monthly seat cost | Annual seat cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 developer | $20 | $240 |
| 3 developers | $60 | $720 |
| 5 developers | $100 | $1,200 |
| 10 developers | $200 | $2,400 |
| 20 developers | $400 | $4,800 |
There are no volume discounts on Pro. Per-seat cost is flat at $20 regardless of team size. Enterprise negotiates custom rates.
Each Pro account also receives a $20/month flexible spending credit that offsets compute and bandwidth overages — but not add-on subscriptions like Speed Insights or SAML SSO.
Pro includes 1TB of bandwidth per month. Beyond that, you're billed at $0.15/GB.
| Monthly bandwidth | Included | Overage cost |
|---|---|---|
| 500GB | All included | $0 |
| 1TB | All included | $0 |
| 1.5TB | 1TB included | $75 |
| 2TB | 1TB included | $150 |
| 5TB | 1TB included | $600 |
A content-heavy site, high-resolution image gallery, or app that serves large API responses can hit overage territory quickly. One unoptimized viral post can generate 500GB of traffic in 24 hours — that's $75 in bandwidth charges from a single event.
Edge requests (middleware, edge functions) are included at 10M/month. Beyond that: $2/million additional requests.
This is where Vercel's billing gets complex. Serverless functions are charged across three separate axes simultaneously: CPU time, provisioned memory, and invocation count. Most competing platforms charge on one axis.
| Dimension | Rate |
|---|---|
| Active CPU | $0.128/CPU-hour (iad1 base rate) |
| Provisioned Memory | $0.0106/GB-hour |
| Function Invocations | $0.60/million |
Vercel prices compute by region, and rates vary meaningfully across regions. If your users are in a high-cost region but you haven't reviewed your edge function region settings, you may be paying significantly more per CPU-hour than the iad1 (US East) base rate listed above. Check Vercel's pricing page for current regional multipliers.
If your Next.js middleware invokes a serverless function on every request, each page load generates charges on:
Four billing events per page view. A site with 2M monthly page views and middleware-triggered functions can see function charges that dwarf the base seat cost.
Vercel's image optimization transforms images on-demand — resize, format conversion (WebP/AVIF), quality adjustment. Each unique transformation is billed at $0.05 per 1,000 transformations, per Vercel's pricing page.
| Monthly transformations | Cost |
|---|---|
| 10,000 | $0.50 |
| 100,000 | $5.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $50.00 |
The variant trap: Every combination of width, quality, and format is a separate transformation. A product catalog with 500 images rendered at 4 responsive widths generates 2,000 transformations per full crawl — before any real users visit. Search engine bots and screenshot tools can silently inflate this count.
Build minute pricing depends on which machine tier you choose. Since February 2026, Turbo is the default for new Pro projects, per the Vercel Changelog.
| Machine Tier | Specs | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM | $0.014/min |
| Enhanced | 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM | $0.028/min |
| Turbo | 30 vCPU, 60GB RAM | $0.105/min |
Turbo costs 7.5x more per minute than Standard. For a 5-minute Next.js build:
For a team running 100 builds/month:
Preview deployments (one per pull request) consume the same build minutes as production deployments. A team running 20 PRs/day with 5-minute Turbo builds:
20 PRs × 1.5 builds avg × 5 min × 22 days × $0.105/min = $347/month
Switch to Standard machines for previews and that same workflow costs $46/month. Configure this under Build Settings in your Vercel dashboard.
Here's a single-reference table of what Pro includes before any overage applies:
| Resource | Included with Pro | Overage rate |
|---|---|---|
| Seats | Unlimited paid ($20/each) | — |
| Bandwidth | 1TB/month | $0.15/GB |
| Edge Requests | 10M/month | $2/million |
| Spending credit | $20/month | — |
| Compute | Pay-per-use (credit offsets) | $0.128/CPU-hr |
| Memory | Pay-per-use | $0.0106/GB-hr |
| Invocations | Pay-per-use | $0.60/million |
| Image optimizations | Pay-per-use | $0.05/1K |
| Build minutes | Pay-per-use | Tier-dependent |
| Vercel Blob | Pay-per-use | $0.023/GB-month |
| Speed Insights | Not included | $10/project/month |
| SAML SSO | Not included | $300/month |
The $20 spending credit each month offsets compute and bandwidth charges but does not cover add-on subscriptions. A Pro plan with Speed Insights on one project and Observability Plus effectively costs $40/seat/month effective for that project's cost center.
These estimates use realistic traffic patterns: ~3 page views per session, ~1.5MB average page weight, 5% of sessions triggering API functions, and Standard build machines unless noted.
Setup: 2 developers, 30k page views/month, light API usage
| Line item | Calculation | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Seats (2) | 2 × $20 | $40 |
| Bandwidth (~45GB) | Under 1TB included | $0 |
| Function invocations (~150k) | Under included | $0 |
| Build minutes (50 builds × 5min, Standard) | 250 min × $0.014 | $3.50 |
| Spending credit | —$20 | —$20 |
| Total | ~$24/month |
At this scale, Vercel Pro is cost-effective. The spending credit nearly covers the small compute bill, leaving you paying mostly for the second seat.
Setup: 5 developers, 300k page views/month, moderate API usage
| Line item | Calculation | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Seats (5) | 5 × $20 | $100 |
| Bandwidth (~450GB) | Under 1TB included | $0 |
| Function invocations (~1.5M) | Under 10M included | $0 |
| CPU time (~15 CPU-hours) | 15 × $0.128 | $1.92 |
| Build minutes (150 builds × 5min, Standard) | 750 min × $0.014 | $10.50 |
| Spending credit | —$20 | —$20 |
| Total | ~$92/month |
At 100k MAU, you're comfortably within Pro quotas. Cost is predictable and dominated by seat count.
Setup: 15 developers, 3M page views/month, heavy API usage
| Line item | Calculation | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Seats (15) | 15 × $20 | $300 |
| Bandwidth (~4.5TB) | 3,500GB overage × $0.15 | $525 |
| Function invocations (~15M) | 5M overage × $0.60/M | $3 |
| CPU time (~80 CPU-hours) | 80 × $0.128 | $10.24 |
| Build minutes (400 builds × 5min, Enhanced) | 2,000 min × $0.028 | $56 |
| Spending credit | —$20 | —$20 |
| Total | ~$874/month |
At 1M MAU, bandwidth becomes the dominant cost driver. Optimizing image delivery and leveraging edge caching are worth engineering time at this scale.
Add-ons: If you add Speed Insights across 3 apps ($30/month) and Observability Plus ($10/month), that 1M MAU bill climbs to ~$914/month before any compliance add-ons.
| Vercel Pro | Netlify Pro | Temps Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base price | $20/seat/month | $19/seat/month | From ~€6/month flat |
| Bandwidth included | 1TB | 1TB | 20TB (VPS-level) |
| Bandwidth overage | $0.15/GB | $55/100GB ($0.55/GB) | None (flat) |
| Build minutes | Pay-per-use (tier) | 25K/month included | Unlimited |
| Preview deployments | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function pricing | 3-dimensional | Execution time only | Included in server |
| Analytics | Add-on ($0.00003/event) | Add-on | Included |
| Error tracking | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Session replay | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Per-seat scaling | Linear ($20/seat) | Linear ($19/seat) | None |
| Spend predictability | Variable | Variable | Fixed |
Key takeaway: Netlify's bandwidth overage rate ($0.55/GB) is 3.7× higher than Vercel's ($0.15/GB), making high-traffic sites significantly more expensive on Netlify. Vercel's advantage is its 3-dimensional function billing model — more granular but harder to predict. Temps Cloud trades per-seat and per-GB pricing for a flat monthly cost that scales with server size rather than traffic.
Temps Cloud costs approximately $6/mo — Hetzner server cost plus 30% margin — with no per-seat fees and no bandwidth overages. A 5-person team switching from Vercel Pro saves approximately $94/mo ($1,128/year) on platform fees alone, before observability savings.
Temps OSS is free to self-host with unlimited deployments, unlimited seats, and no usage caps. Temps Cloud is the managed option at ~$6/mo flat.
Temps includes web analytics, error tracking, session replay, uptime monitoring, and managed databases built into the same binary that handles deployments and reverse proxying — eliminating the separate SaaS subscriptions most Vercel teams need.
Related: How to cut your Vercel bill by 80% with self-hosting
Vercel's Hobby plan in 2026 includes 100GB bandwidth, 1M edge requests, 4 CPU-hours of compute, and 100 build minutes per month, capped at 1 seat and restricted to non-commercial use, per Vercel's pricing page. There's no uptime SLA, and Vercel pauses your deployment rather than billing you when a limit is hit — there's no overage option on Hobby. Viewer/collaborator seats beyond the single owner require upgrading to Pro at $20/seat/month. Because Hobby forbids commercial use, any monetized app, SaaS, or store technically violates the terms regardless of traffic volume. Teams that outgrow Hobby's limits but don't want per-seat Pro billing can self-host Temps for free — no bandwidth, build-minute, or seat caps — or run Temps Cloud at ~$6/mo flat.
Temps Cloud at ~$6/mo is the cheapest full-featured alternative to Vercel Pro. It includes git-push deployments, preview environments, web analytics, error tracking, and session replay with no per-seat fees and no bandwidth overages. A 5-person team on Vercel Pro pays $100/mo minimum; the same team on Temps pays $6/mo flat. Self-hosting Temps on a Hetzner VPS ($4/mo) reduces costs further. For static-only sites, Cloudflare Pages is free but requires the OpenNext adapter for Next.js SSR.
According to Vercel's pricing page, Vercel Pro costs $20 per seat per month, including 1TB of bandwidth, 10 million edge requests, and a $20 flexible spending credit that offsets compute and bandwidth overages. A solo developer's minimum bill is $20/month; a 5-person team starts at $100/month before usage charges.
Vercel offers three plans in 2026: Hobby (free, non-commercial only), Pro at $20/seat/month, and Enterprise at approximately $45,000/year. Pro includes 1TB bandwidth, 10M edge requests, and a $20 spending credit per month. Bandwidth overages run $0.15/GB; compute is billed at $0.128/CPU-hour per Vercel's pricing page.
Vercel Pro is $20/seat/month with a $20 monthly spending credit. Included: 1TB bandwidth, 10M edge requests, unlimited viewer seats. Overages: $0.15/GB bandwidth, $0.128/CPU-hour compute, $0.0106/GB-hour memory, $0.60/million function invocations. Build minutes are pay-per-use based on machine tier ($0.014–$0.105/min), per Vercel's official pricing page.
Per Vercel's official pricing page, the Pro plan costs $20/seat/month. The September 2025 pricing restructuring replaced fixed allowances with a credit-based model: a $20/month flexible credit offsets compute and bandwidth overages (but not add-on subscriptions). Turbo build machines ($0.105/min) became the default for new Pro projects in February 2026.
Vercel Pro pricing in 2026 is $20/seat/month. A 5-person team pays $100/month base. Add bandwidth overages at $0.15/GB after 1TB, compute at $0.128/CPU-hour, and build minutes at $0.014–$0.105/min depending on machine tier. Real-world bills range from ~$24/month at 10k MAU to ~$874/month at 1M MAU. See the full breakdown on Vercel's pricing page.
Pricing data reflects Vercel's published rates as of May 2026. Verify current pricing before making infrastructure decisions. For self-hosting cost comparison, see Hetzner Cloud current VPS rates.
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