Vercel pricing

How Vercel charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.

For hosting

Checked 2026-10-03 on vercel.com ↗ · USD, list prices
In short

$20 per developer per month with $20 of usage credit and a Flat Rate CDN tier covering 1M CDN requests and 1 TB of transfer, then bigger CDN tiers ($20–$300/month) or on-demand rates, plus function compute by usage.

Free plan
Yes
Cheapest paid plan
$20/mo
Side project
$0/mo Hobby
Growing
$40/mo Pro + Flat Rate CDN 10M
Scaling
$353/mo Pro + Flat Rate CDN 150M
What the model leaves out

Rates are the Washington D.C. (iad1) / US rates; other regions cost more. Requests are Vercel's CDN Requests and bandwidth is Fast Data Transfer. Fluid compute bills Active CPU ($0.128 per CPU-hour) plus Provisioned Memory ($0.0106 per GB-hour, billed for the instance's whole lifetime including I/O waits); fn_gb_hours is Provisioned Memory GB-hours on the default 2 GB / 1 vCPU function, with Active CPU assumed to be 25% of instance time — 0.125 CPU-hours per GB-hour, so $0.0106 + $0.016 = $0.0266 per GB-hour. CPU-heavy functions cost up to $0.0746 per GB-hour; I/O-bound ones closer to $0.0106. Under the same assumption Hobby's 4 CPU-hours (not its 360 GB-hours of memory) is the limit, at 32 GB-hours. Pro's $20 monthly credit is modelled as 752 GB-hours of function compute; in reality it covers any usage from the first unit. Left out: function invocations ($0.60 per million beyond Hobby's 1M, only for requests that run a function), Fast Origin Transfer ($0.06/GB), image optimization, ISR, builds, and add-ons. Flat Rate CDN tiers are $20, $100 and $300 a month on top of Pro; the included tier needs no extra fee.

Before you commit
  • Hobby is for personal, non-commercial use only, and when it hits a usage limit you generally wait 30 days before that feature works again — usage can't be bought.
  • Every developer who deploys is a $20/month paid seat; viewer seats are free.
  • If a month's CDN usage goes over your Flat Rate tier, Vercel moves you to the next tier from the next billing cycle; above the 150M-request tier you're billed on demand. Bulk file or media delivery isn't eligible for Flat Rate CDN.
  • Pay-as-you-go on Pro is uncapped by default: Vercel notifies you at $200 of on-demand spend, and only pauses projects if you configure a hard limit.
PlanMonthly feeRequests per monthData transfer out per monthServerless function computeDevelopers on the team
HobbyPersonal, non-commercial use only.Freeup to 1 million requestsup to 100 GBup to 32 GB-hoursup to 1 seat
Pro (Flat Rate CDN, included tier)$20/moup to 1 million requestsup to 1k GB752 GB-hours includedthen $0.0266 per GB-hour1 seat includedthen $20 per seat
Pro + Flat Rate CDN 10M$40/moup to 10 million requestsup to 50k GB752 GB-hours includedthen $0.0266 per GB-hour1 seat includedthen $20 per seat
Pro + Flat Rate CDN 50M$120/moup to 50 million requestsup to 50k GB752 GB-hours includedthen $0.0266 per GB-hour1 seat includedthen $20 per seat
Pro + Flat Rate CDN 150M$320/moup to 150 million requestsup to 50k GB752 GB-hours includedthen $0.0266 per GB-hour1 seat includedthen $20 per seat
Pro (on-demand CDN)$20/mo$2 per million requests$0.15 per GB752 GB-hours includedthen $0.0266 per GB-hour1 seat includedthen $20 per seat

What you'd pay

Usage only some alternatives charge for

Cost as you grow

$0$100$500$1,000$2,0000.10.5151050100500
VercelHetzner CloudAmazon Web ServicesFly.ioRenderRailwayCloudflareNetlifyx: requests per month (million requests), other usage scaled with it; held at 1 server and 1 seat (always-on app servers, developers on the team) — add more for a bigger app with the sliders above · cheapest usable plan at each point, list prices

For image & video hosting

Checked 2026-10-08 on vercel.com ↗ · USD, list prices
In short

Vercel Image Optimization bills transformations ($0.05 per 1,000 in iad1) plus cache reads and writes; Hobby includes 5,000 transformations a month, and delivery is Vercel CDN transfer.

Free plan
Yes
Cheapest paid plan
$20/mo
Side project
$0/mo Hobby
Growing
$21/mo Pro (Flat Rate CDN, included tier)
Scaling
$71/mo Pro (Flat Rate CDN, included tier)
What the model leaves out

Rates are iad1 (Washington D.C.); other regions cost up to $0.0812 per 1,000 transformations. Each transformation is $0.00005 plus its cache write: a 100 KB optimized image is about 13 write units of 8 KB at $0.000004 = $0.000052, so $0.000102 per transformation. Cache reads are left out (small, and not billed for regional cache hits); so are CDN Requests ($2 per million on demand, 1M in the Flat Rate included tier). Source images stay in your deployment or bucket, so images_stored costs nothing here. Hobby includes 5,000 transformations, 300,000 cache reads and 100,000 cache writes a month; its 100 GB is the account's whole transfer allowance. The $20 Pro fee is the platform plan you'd pay anyway for hosting; its $20 monthly usage credit can absorb image costs but is shared with all other usage, so it isn't modelled. Only modelled for Vercel-hosted sites, since it's built into Next.js <Image>.

Before you commit
  • Hobby is for personal, non-commercial use only; past its limits new images fail to optimize (402) while already-cached ones keep working, and you aren't charged.
  • A transformation is billed on every cache MISS and STALE, so short cache TTLs and many requested widths multiply the count.
  • Cache writes ($4 per million 8 KB units) are billed on every miss as well, and cache reads ($0.40 per million) when an image comes from the global rather than the regional cache.
  • Delivery adds Fast Data Transfer and CDN Requests; bulk media delivery isn't eligible for Pro's Flat Rate CDN.
PlanMonthly feeNew image variants generated per monthImages delivered per month
HobbyPersonal, non-commercial use only.Freeup to 5k transformationsup to 100 GB
Pro (Flat Rate CDN, included tier)$20/mo$0.102 per 1,000 transformationsup to 1k GB
Pro (on-demand CDN)$20/mo$0.102 per 1,000 transformations$0.15 per GB

What you'd pay

Usage only some alternatives charge for
Pro (Flat Rate CDN, included tier)$20 plan + 10k transformations × $0.102 per 1,000 transformations$21/mo

Cost as you grow

$0$100$500$2,0005001k5k10k50k100k500k1M
VercelCloudflareBunny.netImageKitCloudinaryx: images stored (originals, about 500 kb each) (image), other usage scaled with it · cheapest usable plan at each point, list prices