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Packaging changeFeature addedSep 21 → Sep 28, 2026

Vercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability

Detected Sep 28, 2026Cloud & DevOps
Covered on Pulse:Week in review, week of Sep 21, 2026
The changeTracing Spans (Beta) observability capability added
BeforeSep 21Not listed
AfterSep 28Tracing Spans (Beta) observability capability
added
2 changes2 capturesSep 21, 2026 → Sep 28, 2026Includes Sep 24, Sep 25first seen Sep 24

What happened

Between the Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026 captures of Vercel's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Speed Insights split into a free base tier (10K events/team/rolling 30 days, all plans) plus a labeled 'Speed Insights Plus Events Add-on' keeping the prior $10/project/month + $0.65/10K events pricing; Added a new 'Tracing Spans (Beta)' observability capability with 1M span units/month included on Hobby, $0.50 per 1M span units on Pro, and Custom pricing on Enterprise. Pulse files it as a packaging change (packaging change, feature added). Pulse's latest capture (Nov 15, 2026) lists Pro at $20.

This weekly roll-up includes 2 changes Pulse first recorded in a shorter period: "Vercel adds Tracing Spans metric, charges $0.50 per 1M span units on Pro" (Day 268, 2026, saved Sep 25, 2026) and "Vercel splits Speed Insights: free 10K-event tier, paid Plus Events add-on" (Day 267, 2026, saved Sep 24, 2026). They are the same changes, not new ones. Before that, Vercel's previous recorded change was "Vercel adds Backends under Remote Cache, new Marketplace Integrations row…" (Sep 21, 2026). Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.

In the same window Render, Railway, Netlify and Heroku also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.

  • All plansPackaging
    Packaging change

    Speed Insights split into a free base tier (10K events/team/rolling 30 days, all plans) plus a labeled 'Speed Insights Plus Events Add-on' keeping the prior $10/project/month + $0.65/10K events pricing.

  • Hobby, Pro, EnterpriseFeature
    Added

    BeforeNot listed

    AfterTracing Spans (Beta) observability capability

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 compared

Full-page captures of Vercel's pricing page (vercel.com) from Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where Tracing Spans (Beta) observability capability now appears.

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Vercel, the last 90 days

Full history
  1. Oct 19, 2026PackagingVercel adds Daemons with usage-based Active CPU and Memory pricing
  2. Oct 16, 2026PackagingVercel launches usage-based Daemons billing at $0.128/hr Active CPU
  3. Oct 5, 2026ImprovementVercel adds OWASP Core Ruleset firewall to Pro Plus priority projects
  4. Sep 28, 2026PackagingVercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability This change
  5. Sep 25, 2026ImprovementVercel adds Tracing Spans metric, charges $0.50 per 1M span units on Pro
  6. Sep 24, 2026PackagingVercel splits Speed Insights: free 10K-event tier, paid Plus Events add-on
  7. Sep 21, 2026ImprovementVercel adds Backends under Remote Cache, new Marketplace Integrations row…
  8. Sep 14, 2026PackagingVercel bundles Edge, Fast Data, Blob & Sandbox overages into flat CDN plan
  9. Sep 9, 2026PackagingVercel replaces Pro CDN overages with flat-rate included data transfer
  10. Sep 1, 2026PackagingVercel adds tax disclaimer: prices in USD, exclude VAT and GST

Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window

All Cloud & DevOps changes
  1. RenderSep 28Render: Workflows compute doubles to 8 CPU / 32 GB RAM
  2. RailwaySep 21Railway launches usage-billed Sandboxes & VMs for AI agents and builds
  3. NetlifyAug 4Netlify: Enterprise price hidden + private-by-default deploys
  4. HerokuJul 3Heroku: new Postgres Advanced tier added (cluster-based pricing)

Questions about this change

Did Vercel raise prices in September 2026?

No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: packaging change, feature added.

What changed on Vercel's pricing page between Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026?

Speed Insights split into a free base tier (10K events/team/rolling 30 days, all plans) plus a labeled 'Speed Insights Plus Events Add-on' keeping the prior $10/project/month + $0.65/10K events pricing; Hobby, Pro, Enterprise feature added: Tracing Spans (Beta) observability capability. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.

How often does Vercel change its pricing?

This weekly roll-up includes 2 changes Pulse first recorded in shorter periods, not new ones; Pulse recorded 6 other pricing-page changes for Vercel in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Vercel adds Backends under Remote Cache, new Marketplace Integrations row…" on Sep 21, 2026; Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.