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Vercel cost calculator
Vercel replaced its old flat per-GB-hour function pricing with Fluid Compute in 2026 and cut the standard bandwidth rate in the same overhaul. Set your usage below and get one itemised bill on the current model, with the $20/seat usage credit already applied.
Quick Answer
Vercel costs $0/month on Hobby (personal use only), $20/user/month on Pro plus $20/user of usage credit then metered overage, and from $3,000/month on Enterprise (negotiated). Fast Data Transfer is $0.15/GB past the included 1TB (down from $0.40/GB under the retired model), and functions bill as Fluid Compute — Active CPU at $0.128/CPU-hour plus Provisioned Memory at $0.0106/GB-hour, replacing the old flat GB-hour rate.
1. Plan
2. Bandwidth & requests
3. Functions (Fluid Compute)
Your Vercel bill
$20
per month · $240 per year
Pro plan (1 seat)
$20/seat, includes $20/seat of usage credit applied against overage below
$20/mo
Fast Data Transfer (bandwidth)
1,000GB included, then 0GB x $0.15/GB
$0/mo
Edge requests
10M included, then 0M x $2/M
$0/mo
Function invocations
1M included, then 2M x $0.6/M
$1.20/mo
Fluid Compute — Active CPU
40 CPU-hours x $0.128/hr — billed only while code executes
$5.12/mo
Fluid Compute — Provisioned Memory
80 GB-hours x $0.0106/GB-hr — billed for the instance's provisioned lifetime
$0.85/mo
Usage credit applied
$20/mo included credit offsets overage first
-$7.17
List prices only, current Fluid Compute model (re-verified 2026-08-13). Add-ons (KV, Postgres, Blob, image optimization overage) are not modeled in this tool — see the full breakdown, real bills at five scales, and add-on pricing: Vercel cost in 2026.
The pricing model changed under the hood
Vercel retired its flat per-GB-hour function billing for Fluid Compute, which only charges Active CPU time while your code is actually executing — not while it waits on a database call or an upstream API. For most I/O-bound API routes that is a real cost cut, not just a relabeling. The standard bandwidth overage rate dropped from $0.40/GB to $0.15/GB in the same pricing pass. Older guides (including an earlier version of this one) still describing the $0.40/GB or flat GB-hour numbers are describing the retired model. Our full Vercel cost guide walks five real bills from a $0 personal blog to a $100K+/year enterprise contract on the current rates.
Bandwidth is still the bigger lever than compute
Even at the lower $0.15/GB rate, bandwidth overage past 1TB scales linearly and can outrun a growing site’s function bill. Cloudflare charges $0 for bandwidth entirely — toggle the two calculators against each other to see the gap on your own numbers. That trade-off runs the other way on developer experience, which is the case our Cloudflare cost calculator makes from the other side.
Infrastructure is one line of a build budget
A $30-150/month Vercel bill sits underneath a project that cost tens of thousands to build. If you are scoping the build rather than the hosting, the project cost calculator prices the whole thing — design, development, integrations and timeline — against 600+ project quotes and public rate benchmarks, and infrastructure is one line inside it.
Vercel pricing — FAQ
How much does Vercel cost per month in 2026?
Vercel costs $0/month on Hobby (personal, non-commercial use), $20/user/month on Pro (plus $20/user of usage credit, then metered overage), or negotiated Enterprise pricing that starts around $3,000-$3,500/month. A small-to-mid Pro account commonly lands in the $30-$150/month range once bandwidth and edge-request overage are included — most of that is bandwidth, not function execution, now that Fluid Compute has cut typical compute costs.
What is Fluid Compute and how is it billed?
Fluid Compute is the pricing model Vercel introduced to replace its old flat per-GB-hour function billing. It splits function cost into two meters: Active CPU at $0.128 per CPU-hour, billed only while your code is actually executing (not during database calls or other I/O wait), and Provisioned Memory at $0.0106 per GB-hour, billed for the instance's provisioned lifetime. Vercel's own changelog frames this as a price cut versus the retired model for typical I/O-bound API routes.
How much does Vercel bandwidth cost?
Vercel calls it Fast Data Transfer. Pro includes 1TB (1,000GB) per month, then $0.15/GB in US regions (higher in other regions). This is down from the older $0.40/GB rate — Vercel cut it in the same pricing overhaul that introduced Fluid Compute. There is also Fast Origin Transfer at $0.06/GB with no included allowance, which applies to origin-to-edge fetches like ISR revalidation.
Is Vercel bandwidth cheaper than AWS or Cloudflare?
No. AWS Amplify's published bandwidth rate is $0.023/GB — roughly 6.5x cheaper than Vercel's $0.15/GB standard overage rate. Cloudflare charges $0 for bandwidth entirely. Vercel's premium buys Next.js-native developer experience, preview deployments and integrated Fluid Compute, not the cheapest bandwidth — the trade-off is detailed in our Cloudflare cost guide.
What happened to Vercel's old GB-hour function pricing?
Vercel retired it. The old model billed a flat rate per GB-hour of function memory x duration, regardless of whether the function was actively computing or idle waiting on I/O. Fluid Compute replaced it with Active CPU (real execution time only) and Provisioned Memory (instance lifetime), which is why some older pricing pages or guides still quoting a flat $0.18/GB-hour rate are describing a retired model, not current pricing.
Can I use Vercel Hobby for a client or business site?
No. Vercel's Hobby plan terms explicitly restrict it to personal, non-commercial projects. A business site — even a small one — needs at least the Pro plan at $20/user/month. Vercel actively monitors for and can suspend accounts that violate Hobby's commercial-use terms.
Where do these prices come from?
Every rate in this calculator is a published Vercel list price, cross-checked 2026-08-13 against vercel.com/pricing, vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing and Vercel's own changelog announcing Active CPU pricing, and documented with the same figures in our Vercel cost guide. The calculator does not model Enterprise's negotiated rates, which are private by definition, or third-party add-ons (KV, Postgres, Blob) whose exact current rates were not independently re-verified this cycle.