Vercel Pricing 2026: Hobby, Pro and the Flat Rate CDN

Vercel hosts Next.js and other frontend frameworks, and its bill combines a seat price, CDN capacity and metered compute. In 2026 the biggest change was the Flat Rate CDN, which turned per-gigabyte transfer billing into capacity tiers for Pro teams^[4]. This page lists the plans, the tiers and what a typical project pays. For Vercel against Netlify and Cloudflare Pages, see Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages pricing.

1. Vercel plans

Plan	Price	Seats	Included usage
Hobby	$0[1]	Personal account	100 GB transfer, 1M CDN requests, 1M function invocations, 4 hours Active CPU a month
Pro	$20/mo[1]	1 developer included, extra developers $20/mo, viewer seats free	$20 usage credit; Flat Rate CDN with 1M requests and 1 TB[2]
Enterprise	Custom[1]	Custom	Multi-region compute, 99.99% SLA, SCIM, managed WAF rulesets

2. The Flat Rate CDN

On Pro, CDN requests, Fast Data Transfer, Blob data transfer, Sandbox data transfer and the observability events generated by CDN requests are covered by a capacity tier instead of billed per unit^[2]:

Tier	Monthly price	CDN requests	Data transfer
Included with Pro	Included	1,000,000	1 TB
Tier 1	$20/mo	10,000,000	50 TB
Tier 2	$100/mo	50,000,000	50 TB
Tier 3	$300/mo	150,000,000	50 TB

A one-day spike does not trigger an upgrade; if a whole billing cycle exceeds capacity, Vercel moves the team up a tier at the start of the next cycle, and above the top tier it moves to on-demand pricing^[2]. Projects that are not business-critical can be moved to the Flex CDN network so they do not count against the tier.

3. Functions, builds and other usage

• Functions (Fluid compute): Active CPU from $0.128 per hour, provisioned memory from $0.0106 per GB-hour, invocations from $0.60 per million^[1].
• Incremental Static Regeneration: reads from $0.40 per million, writes from $4 per million^[1].
• Blob storage: $0.023 per GB-month, with 1 GB included^[1].
• Image optimization: transformations from $0.05 per 1,000, with 5,000 included^[1].
• Builds: standard machines $0.014 per minute, enhanced $0.028, turbo $0.105^[1].
• Add-ons on Pro: SAML SSO $300 a month, password protection $20 per project a month, static IPs $100 per project a month^[1].

Usage is drawn first from Pro's $20 monthly credit. A small app with light server-side rendering often stays inside it; an app that runs long AI calls in functions should watch Active CPU and provisioned memory.

4. Monthly cost examples

Seats plus Flat Rate CDN tier, computed from the published prices, assuming compute stays within the $20 usage credit^[1][2]:

Scenario	Pro base	Extra developers	CDN tier	Monthly total
Solo developer, under 1M CDN requests and 1 TB	$20	$0	Included	$20
3 developers, under 1M CDN requests and 1 TB	$20	$40	Included	$60
Solo developer, 8M CDN requests a month	$20	$0	$20	$40
3 developers, 40M CDN requests a month	$20	$40	$100	$160

Viewer seats are free, so designers and stakeholders who only review previews do not add cost^[1]. Add your function usage on top once it passes the included credit, and roll the hosting line into your stack budget with the AI stack cost calculator.

5. Hobby plan limits

Hobby is free and aimed at personal projects, and Vercel's documentation states that under its fair use guidelines it is restricted to non-commercial, personal use^[3]. It includes 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer, 1 million CDN requests, 1 million function invocations, 4 hours of Active CPU and 360 GB-hours of provisioned memory a month^[1]. When a Hobby project exceeds a limit, features pause rather than billing overage.

6. Is Vercel Pro worth it?

• Commercial Next.js app, solo: Pro at $20 is the entry point, and the Flat Rate CDN makes traffic predictable up to 1 TB.
• Team of several developers: each costs $20 a month; Netlify Pro's flat price for unlimited members can be cheaper.
• Mostly static content at high traffic: Cloudflare Pages serves static assets free.
• Heavy server-side AI workloads: price Active CPU and memory carefully, or run them on a dedicated backend.

Re-check vercel.com/pricing before committing; usage rates vary by region.

All pricing figures verified against vercel.com/pricing and Vercel's documentation on 2026-10-11.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Vercel cost?

Vercel Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial projects. Vercel Pro costs $20 a month, which includes one developer seat, unlimited free viewer seats, $20 of usage credit and a Flat Rate CDN tier covering 1 million CDN requests and 1 TB of data transfer. Extra developer seats cost $20 a month each, and Enterprise is custom. Verified on vercel.com on 2026-10-11.

Is Vercel free for commercial use?

No. Vercel's Hobby plan documentation states that, under its fair use guidelines, Hobby is restricted to non-commercial, personal use. A commercial project needs Pro or Enterprise.

What is Vercel's Flat Rate CDN?

It replaces per-unit CDN billing on Pro with fixed monthly capacity tiers. Pro includes 1 million CDN requests and 1 TB of transfer; larger tiers cost $20 a month (10 million requests, 50 TB), $100 (50 million) and $300 (150 million). A one-day traffic spike does not change the bill; sustained usage above capacity moves you up a tier at the next billing cycle.

How much do Vercel Functions cost on Pro?

Functions bill on Fluid compute: Active CPU from $0.128 per hour, provisioned memory from $0.0106 per GB-hour and invocations from $0.60 per million, drawn first against Pro's $20 of included usage credit. Hobby includes 4 hours of Active CPU, 360 GB-hours of memory and 1 million invocations a month.