Personal, non-commercial projects with 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer, 1M CDN requests and 1M function invocations a month; a feature that hits its limit pauses for up to 30 days.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- bandwidth / month
- 100 GB
- Fast Data Transfer from the CDN to visitors.
- requests / month
- 1M
- CDN Requests, counted for static assets and functions alike; function invocations are separately capped at 1,000,000 a month.
- CPU time / month
- 4 h
- Active CPU for Vercel Functions on Fluid compute.
- compute / month
- 360 GB-h
- Provisioned Memory for Vercel Functions.
- origin transfer / month
- 10 GB
- Fast Origin Transfer, incurred by Functions, Middleware, Blob and ISR data cache.
- deployments / day
- 100
- projects
- 200
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
- The project is paused
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedNo idle pause is documented. In most cases, a feature whose Hobby usage limit is exceeded can be used again only after 30 days have passed; the Hobby plan page does not say when the 30 days start.
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- Not documentedSign-up is by email one-time code or a GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket account; the docs do not say whether a card is needed.
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- Not allowed on the free planHobby is for personal or non-commercial use only; ads, payments, affiliate sites and paid client work count as commercial. Hobby content may be used for AI model training unless the team opts out. Vercel may remove Hobby deployments without notice.
- Mainland China
- BlockedThe default domain is blocked; use a custom domain. GreatFire reports the default vercel.app domain and almost every tested *.vercel.app host as blocked; vercel.com, where the dashboard lives, is rated mixed. Custom domains were not assessed.
- 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
- CorrectionBreaking
Worse: Mainland China reachability corrected: not verified → blocked
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Hobby