Vercel launches usage-based Daemons billing at $0.128/hr Active CPU
What happened
Between the Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026 captures of Vercel's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: New Vercel Daemons usage-based item: Active CPU $0.128/hr (5 hrs/mo included) and Provisioned Memory $0.0212/GB-hr (420 GB-hrs/mo included); Enterprise Custom. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on) with an upward direction. The current page lists Pro at $20.
It lands 11 days after Vercel's previous change, "Vercel adds OWASP Core Ruleset firewall to Pro Plus priority projects" (Oct 5, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Vercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability" (Sep 28, 2026), "Vercel adds Backends under Remote Cache, new Marketplace Integrations row in " (Sep 21, 2026) and "Vercel bundles Edge, Fast Data, Blob & Sandbox overages into flat CDN plan" (Sep 14, 2026). Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window Render, Railway and Netlify also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Enterprise · Add-onNew add-on
New Vercel Daemons usage-based item: Active CPU $0.128/hr (5 hrs/mo included) and Provisioned Memory $0.0212/GB-hr (420 GB-hrs/mo included); Enterprise Custom.
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Add-on | New Vercel Daemons usage-based item: Active CPU $0.128/hr (5 hrs/mo included) and Provisioned Memory $0.0212/GB-hr (420 GB-hrs/mo included); Enterprise Custom. | New add-on | |
Values as written on Vercel's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Vercel's pricing page (vercel.com) from Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page.
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Vercel, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 16, 2026packagingVercel launches usage-based Daemons billing at $0.128/hr Active CPU · this change
- Oct 5, 2026improvedVercel adds OWASP Core Ruleset firewall to Pro Plus priority projects
- Sep 28, 2026improvedVercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability
- Sep 21, 2026improvedVercel adds Backends under Remote Cache, new Marketplace Integrations row in ...
- Sep 14, 2026packagingVercel bundles Edge, Fast Data, Blob & Sandbox overages into flat CDN plan
- Sep 1, 2026packagingVercel adds tax disclaimer: prices in USD, exclude VAT and GST
- Aug 31, 2026packagingVercel: Connect->Token Requests price hike + new Triggers metric
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Vercel raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on.
What changed on Vercel's pricing page between Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026?
New Vercel Daemons usage-based item: Active CPU $0.128/hr (5 hrs/mo included) and Provisioned Memory $0.0212/GB-hr (420 GB-hrs/mo included); Enterprise Custom. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Vercel change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 7 other pricing-page changes for Vercel in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Vercel adds OWASP Core Ruleset firewall to Pro Plus priority projects" on Oct 5, 2026; Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.