Object storage on the free Hobby plan: 1 GB storage, 10K simple and 2K advanced operations and 10 GB data transfer a month; personal, non-commercial use only.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- storage
- 1 GB
- Monthly average of the blob store size (GB-month).
- simple operations / month
- 10K
- Simple operations: URL access that misses the cache, and head() calls. Cache hits do not count.
- advanced operations / month
- 2K
- Advanced operations: put(), copy(), list(), store creation and dashboard browsing; each multipart part counts.
- blob data transfer / month
- 10 GB
Before you rely on it
Read with the default assumptions: a project that may grow and may make money.
- Breaking: The free plan is for non-commercial use
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- Anything over the limit is refused until the next period
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedIf a Hobby limit is exceeded, Vercel Blob cannot be accessed until 30 days have passed; the pricing page does not say when the 30 days start.
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- Not documented
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- Not allowed on the free planCommercial use, including a paid employee or consultant building the project, requires Pro or Enterprise.
- Mainland China
- Not verified
- Sign-up regions
- No restrictions documented
- Quotas apply per
- Account
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
No changes recorded since this plan entered the catalog.
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Hobby