Vercel pricing

Checked Oct 27, 2026 in Vercel’s Hobby plan docs, Pro plan docs and pricing docs; some lines from vercel.com/pricing, verified Oct 22, 2026. No affiliate links on this page (how we work).

What you’ll actually pay

Vercel Hobby is $0 and Pro is $20 a month, and the line between them isn’t really traffic, it’s money. Vercel’s docs say “the Hobby plan restricts users to non-commercial, personal use only” (verified Oct 27, 2026). So the honest answer to “Vercel Pro vs Hobby” is: if the project earns, sells or works for a client, you’re on Pro, however small it is. If it’s your weekend side project, Hobby’s included usage is generous.

Pro is “$20/month Pro platform fee”, “1 deploying team seat included” and “$20/month in usage credit” (Pro plan docs, verified Oct 27, 2026). For how that stacks up against the nearest rival, see Vercel vs Netlify.

Vercel plans at a glance

Plan	Price	Usage credit	Best for
Hobby	$0	Fixed free caps	Personal projects
Pro	$20/mo + seats	$20/mo	Anything commercial

USD. Hobby and Pro docs verified Oct 27, 2026. Extra deploying seats on Pro are $20/month each; Viewer seats are free. Enterprise isn’t covered here.

Hobby (free) limits

Hobby is for “personal, non-commercial use”, and free accounts “are limited to the usage caps and cannot purchase additional usage” (vercel.com/pricing, verified Oct 22, 2026). Included per month, per Vercel’s Hobby docs and pricing docs (verified Oct 27, 2026):

• Fast Data Transfer: first 100 GB
• Fast Origin Transfer: first 10 GB
• CDN Requests: first 1,000,000
• Function Invocations: first 1,000,000
• Active CPU: 4 CPU-hrs; Provisioned Memory: 360 GB-hrs
• Image Transformations: first 5,000; Image Cache Reads 300,000; Writes 100,000
• Web Analytics: 50,000 events; Speed Insights: 10,000 events over 30 days
• Blob storage: 1 GB

Hobby vs Pro on the structural limits: 200 projects vs unlimited, 100 deployments a day vs 6,000, and runtime logs kept 1 hour vs 1 day.

Hobby’s commercial ban is basically Schrute Farms. A beet farm is a hobby. The moment Dwight starts renting rooms to guests, it’s a bed-and-breakfast, and it needs the paid plan.

What Pro adds

From the Pro plan docs (verified Oct 27, 2026):

• $20 a month platform fee with one deploying seat. “Additional paid seats (Owner or Member roles) for $20/month each”, and “Unlimited free Viewer seats”.
• $20 a month in usage credit. Unused credit expires at the end of the month; it doesn’t roll over.
• Flat Rate CDN. “Pro includes the lowest capacity tier at no extra cost, with a capacity of 1 million CDN requests and 1 TB of data transfer each month.” Prices for the higher capacity tiers aren’t published on the pages we read.
• A free first-year domain on paid Pro.
• Optional add-ons: Password Protection $20/month per project, Web Analytics Plus $10/month, SAML SSO $300/month, Observability Plus $1.20 per 1M events.

Yearly vs monthly billing

No yearly Vercel Pro price is published. The Pro docs say “The Pro plan is billed monthly based on the number of deploying team seats, paid add-ons, and any on-demand usage” (verified Oct 27, 2026). So a year of Pro for one person is the monthly bill twelve times, plus whatever usage goes past the credit.

When usage goes past the free caps or the credit

On Hobby, nothing gets billed, things just stop: “if you exceed your usage limits on the Hobby plan, you will have to wait until 30 days have passed before you can use the feature again” (Web Analytics comes back after 7 days). That’s a long time for a demo to be dark (Hobby docs, verified Oct 27, 2026).

On Pro, “Once you have used your monthly credit, Vercel bills additional usage on-demand.” You get a notification at 75% of the monthly credit, and “By default, Vercel enables spend management notifications for new customers at a spend amount of $200 per billing cycle” (Pro docs, verified Oct 27, 2026). You can also set a hard limit that will “automatically pause all projects” (vercel.com/pricing, verified Oct 22, 2026). On-demand rates start at $0.60 per 1M function invocations, $0.128 per Active CPU hour and $0.0106 per GB-hr of provisioned memory (pricing page, verified Oct 22, 2026), and the docs now say compute “Costs vary by region”, so treat those as floors.

As Monica put it: “Rules are good! Rules help control the fun!” Set the hard limit on day one. A viral launch is fun; an uncapped invoice is less fun.

Is Pro worth it?

If the project is commercial, the question is settled for you by Vercel’s terms. If it isn’t, stay on Hobby until you hit one of the walls above, usually logs, deployments a day or a capped feature going dark for 30 days. Comparing hosts first? Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel covers the edge-first option, and Netlify pricing is the credit-based alternative. Building with v0 rather than deploying? That’s a separate product: Is v0 free?.

FAQ

Is Vercel Pro worth it over Hobby? Yes for anything commercial, since Hobby is personal and non-commercial only; for side projects, Hobby’s free caps are usually enough.

Can I use Vercel Hobby for commercial projects? No, Vercel’s docs restrict Hobby to non-commercial, personal use only.

Is there a yearly Vercel plan? No yearly Pro price is published; Vercel says Pro is billed monthly.

What happens when I go over Vercel’s free limits? On Hobby you can’t buy more usage and must wait 30 days for that feature; on Pro, usage past the $20 credit is billed on demand.

Sources

1. Vercel docs, Hobby plan (non-commercial rule, included usage, Hobby vs Pro limits, 30-day wait): https://vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby (verified 2026-10-27)
2. Vercel docs, Pro plan (platform fee, seats, usage credit, monthly billing, on-demand usage, notifications, Flat Rate CDN tier, add-ons, domain): https://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan (verified 2026-10-27)
3. Vercel docs, Pricing (included usage, Blob storage, regional costs): https://vercel.com/docs/pricing (verified 2026-10-27)
4. Vercel pricing page (Hobby wording, can’t buy more usage, “starting at” rates, hard limit): https://vercel.com/pricing (verified 2026-10-22)