Vercel

At a glance

Vercel is a hosted platform for web apps, serverless functions and AI agent workloads. You deploy with vercel deploy, or connect Git so pushes create deployments by default: the production branch goes live and other branches get preview URLs. The homepage now leads with agent infrastructure (sandboxes, an AI model gateway, durable orchestration). It also lists a CDN, a firewall and multi-tenant domain tools.

Good fit

Teams shipping web front ends or framework apps who want branch previews and managed functions without running servers. Also agent builders who want sandboxes, model routing and hosting on one account.

Consider something else when

You need a commercial project on the free tier, since Hobby is limited to personal, non-commercial use. Also reconsider if your design depends on long single requests: functions have duration caps, and the docs point to Vercel Workflows for work that has to pause and resume.

Start here

Start on Hobby with a personal project. Deploy with the CLI or a connected repo, then open a branch's preview URL. Read the function limits page early if your app streams long responses or moves payloads near 4.5 MB.

Cost and requirements

Prices are in USD and exclude VAT or GST. Hobby is $0 for personal, non-commercial use, with 200 projects and 100 deployments a day. It cannot buy extra usage: a capped feature usually pauses for 30 days (Web Analytics resumes after 7). Pro is $20 a month with $20 of usage credit, then metered usage. Developer seats are listed at $20 per user per month and viewer seats are free. New teams get a $200 default spend-alert budget, and pausing projects at 100% is an optional hard limit.

Limits to know

Request and response bodies are limited to 4.5 MB, including for functions used by AI apps. Long responses also count toward function duration. Node.js, Bun and Python functions default to 300 seconds; Pro supports longer limits, with the maximum depending on the runtime and beta availability. Memory and region options vary by plan. Check the function limits for your runtime before choosing a deployment architecture.

Related work

• agent-browser: Vercel Labs' browser CLI for agents, which documents running in a Vercel Sandbox (complement)

Still unclear

• Does the $20 Pro plan price include the first developer seat?