Vercel adds Daemons with usage-based Active CPU and Memory pricing
What happened
Between the Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026 captures of Vercel's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: New Vercel Daemons usage products: Active CPU (5 hrs/mo included, from $0.128/hr) and Provisioned Memory (420 GB-hrs/mo included, from $0.0212/GB-hr). Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 9, 2026) lists Pro at $20.
It lands 3 days after Vercel's previous change, "Vercel launches usage-based Daemons billing at $0.128/hr Active CPU" (Oct 16, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Vercel: Vercel Drives storage launched at $0.05/GB-month, metered reads/writes" (Oct 20, 2026), "Vercel adds OWASP Core Ruleset firewall to Pro Plus priority projects" (Oct 5, 2026) and "Vercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability" (Sep 28, 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.
- — · Add-onNew add-on
New Vercel Daemons usage products: Active CPU (5 hrs/mo included, from $0.128/hr) and Provisioned Memory (420 GB-hrs/mo included, from $0.0212/GB-hr).
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Add-on | New Vercel Daemons usage products: Active CPU (5 hrs/mo included, from $0.128/hr) and Provisioned Memory (420 GB-hrs/mo included, from $0.0212/GB-hr). | 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 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page.
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Vercel, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 26, 2026packagingVercel slashes Firewall limits, adds metered Deployment Storage at $0.10/GB
- Oct 26, 2026packagingVercel: Vercel Firewall limits cut: Enterprise Custom Firewall Rules 1,000→250; IP Blocking Hobby 3→10, Pro 100→40,…
- Oct 20, 2026improvedVercel: Vercel Drives storage launched at $0.05/GB-month, metered reads/writes
- Oct 19, 2026packagingVercel adds Daemons with usage-based Active CPU and Memory pricing · this change
- Oct 16, 2026packagingVercel launches usage-based Daemons billing at $0.128/hr Active CPU
- Oct 5, 2026improvedVercel adds OWASP Core Ruleset firewall to Pro Plus priority projects
- Sep 28, 2026packagingVercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability
- Sep 25, 2026improvedVercel adds Tracing Spans metric, charges $0.50 per 1M span units on Pro
- Sep 24, 2026packagingVercel splits Speed Insights: free 10K-event tier, paid Plus Events add-on
- Sep 21, 2026improvedVercel adds Backends under Remote Cache, new Marketplace Integrations row…
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 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on.
What changed on Vercel's pricing page between Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026?
New Vercel Daemons usage products: Active CPU (5 hrs/mo included, from $0.128/hr) and Provisioned Memory (420 GB-hrs/mo included, from $0.0212/GB-hr). Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Vercel change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 12 other pricing-page changes for Vercel in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Vercel launches usage-based Daemons billing at $0.128/hr Active CPU" on Oct 16, 2026; Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.