Vercel Hobby Plan
Learn about the Hobby plan and how it compares to the Pro plan.The Hobby plan is free and aimed at developers with personal projects, and small-scale applications. It offers a generous set of features for individual users, including the following Managed Infrastructure, DX Platform, and Platform features on a per month basis:
As the Hobby plan is a free tier there are no billing cycles. In most cases, 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.
Some features have shorter or longer time periods:
As stated in the fair use guidelines, the Hobby plan restricts users to non-commercial, personal use only.
When your personal account gets converted to a Hobby team, your usage and activity log will be reset. To learn more about this change, read the changelog.
The Pro plan offers more resources and advanced features compared to the Hobby plan. The following table provides a side-by-side comparison of the two plans:
| Feature | Hobby | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Edge Middleware Invocations | Up to 1,000,000 Invocations | 1,000,000 Invocations included |
| ISR Reads | Up to 1,000,000 Reads | 10,000,000 included |
| ISR Writes | Up to 200,000 | 2,000,000 included |
| Edge Requests | Up to 1,000,000 requests | 10,000,000 requests included |
| Projects | 200 | Unlimited |
| Serverless Function maximum duration | 10s (default) - configurable up to 60s | 15s (default) - configurable up to 300s |
| Build execution minutes | 6,000 | 24,000 |
| Team collaboration features | - | Yes |
| Domains per project | 50 | Unlimited |
| Deployments per day | 100 | 6,000 |
| Analytics | - | Limited |
| Email support | - | Yes |
| Vercel AI Playground models | Llama, GPT 3.5, Mixtral | GPT-4, Claude, Mistral Large, Code Llama |
| RBAC available | N/A | Owner, Member, Billing |
| Comments | Available | Available for team collaboration |
| Log Drains | - | Configurable (not on a trial) |
| Spend Management | N/A | Configurable |
| Vercel Toolbar | Available for certain features | Available |
| Storage | KV, Postgres, Blob (Beta) | KV, Postgres, Blob (Beta) |
| Activity Logs | Available | Available |
| Runtime Logs | 1 hour of logs and up to 4000 rows of log data | 1 day of logs and up to 100,000 rows of log data |
| DDoS Mitigation | On by default. Optional Attack Challenge Mode. | On by default. Optional Attack Challenge Mode. |
| Vercel WAF IP Blocking | Up to 10 | Up to 100 |
| Vercel WAF Custom Rules | Up to 3 | Up to 40 |
| Deployment Protection | Vercel Authentication | Vercel Authentication, Password Protection (Add-on), Sharable Links |
| Deployment Retention | Unlimited by default. |
You can take advantage of Vercel's Pro trial to explore Pro features for free during the trial period, with some limitations. For a side-by-side comparison of plan features, refer to the plans comparison table.
To upgrade from a Hobby plan:
- Go to your dashboard. If you're upgrading a team, make sure to select the team you want to upgrade
- Go to the Settings tab and select Billing
- Under Plan, if your team is eligible for an upgrade, you can click the Upgrade button. Or, you may need to create or select a team to upgrade. In that case, you can click Create a Team or Upgrade a Team
- Optionally, add team members. Each member incurs a $20 per user / month charge
- Enter your card details
- Click Confirm and Upgrade
If you are on a Pro plan trial, you'll need to add a credit card to your account to continue on a Pro plan. See Upgrade to a paid Pro plan for more information.
If you are on an expired Pro trial or would like to end your paid plan, you can downgrade to Hobby.
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