Vercel pricing explained: Hobby, Pro and what you'll really pay

Vercel's Hobby, Pro and Enterprise plans in plain words: what's included, how seats and usage are billed, worked examples and how to keep your bill down.

1. Vercel's plans at a glance

Vercel has three plans. Every figure here comes from Vercel's own pricing page, checked on November 1, 2026. Prices change, so check the page before you decide.

• Hobby: free, for personal, non-commercial use only. One developer seat, with usage capped.
• Pro: $20 a month per developer seat, with a $20 monthly usage credit. Usage beyond what's included is billed as you go.
• Enterprise: custom pricing, agreed with Vercel's sales team.

2. What the free Hobby plan includes

Hobby is generous for a personal project, but it's capped: you can't buy more usage, and it isn't for commercial use. Each month it includes:

• 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer and 10 GB of Fast Origin Transfer
• 1 million CDN requests
• 4 hours of active CPU for functions, 360 GB-hours of provisioned memory and 1 million invocations
• 5,000 image transformations
• 1 GB of Blob storage
• 50,000 web analytics events

If your project makes money, such as a business site, a client project or a product with paying users, Vercel expects you to be on Pro.

3. How Pro is priced: seats plus usage

Pro costs $20 a month for each developer seat. Viewer seats are free and unlimited. The plan includes a $20 credit each month that's spent on usage, plus:

• 1 TB of Fast Data Transfer, then $0.15 per GB
• 10 million CDN requests, then from $2 per million
• Functions billed by active CPU (from $0.128 an hour), provisioned memory (from $0.0106 per GB-hour) and invocations (from $0.60 per million)
• Build minutes from $0.007 a minute on basic machines, up to $0.105 on the fastest
• Image transformations from $0.05 per 1,000

So the price of Pro depends on two things: how many people deploy, and how much your projects are used.

4. Worked examples

• A team of 3 developers: 3 seats at $20 is $60 a month, before any usage beyond what's included.
• A busy month: a project that sends 1.5 TB of data uses the included 1 TB, then 500 GB at $0.15 per GB, which is $75 on top of your seats.
• A solo developer selling a product: Hobby isn't for commercial use, so it's one Pro seat, $20 a month, plus any usage beyond the included amounts.

5. Add-ons that can surprise you

Some features cost extra on Pro. From Vercel's pricing page:

• Password protection: $20 per project a month
• A custom preview deployment suffix: $100 a month
• Static IPs: $100 per project a month, plus data transfer
• SAML single sign-on: $300 a month
• Bulk redirects beyond 1,000 per project: $50 a month per 25,000

6. Spend limits and how to keep your bill down

New teams get a default on-demand budget of $200, which you can change. Vercel emails and alerts you as you get close, and you can choose to pause all projects when the budget is reached.

• Give people who only review work viewer seats, which are free, instead of developer seats.
• Set a budget that matches what you're happy to pay, and decide whether projects should pause at the limit.
• Cache what you can, so fewer requests reach your functions.
• Keep an eye on images, functions and transfer in the usage dashboard, the usual sources of a bigger bill.

7. When a flat price fits better

If you'd rather know your bill in advance, a host that charges per site instead of per seat and per request can cost less, especially for teams. On Cloudzyro, the free Launch plan allows business use, and Boost is $20 a month per site with your whole team included, 2 CPUs, 2 GB of memory and 1 TB of traffic. A site past its allowance is slowed down, never charged extra, and Next.js apps run with next start on a real Node.js server.

See Cloudzyro vs Vercel for a side-by-side table, or Host a Next.js app outside Vercel for the steps.

8. Sources

• Vercel pricing
• Vercel limits