Vercel extends trace retention up to 14 days, renames Session Tracing
What happened
Between the Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026 captures of Vercel's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Trace retention increased and metric renamed from Session Tracing to Trace Retention: Hobby 1 hour to 3 days, Pro 1 day to 14 days, Enterprise 3 days to 14 days; Tracing Spans Beta badge dropped. Pulse files it as a packaging change (limit increase) with an upward direction. The current page lists Pro at $20.
It lands 3 days after Vercel's previous change, "Vercel boosts Pro trace retention 14x to 14 days, Hobby to 3 days" (Nov 6, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Vercel adds usage pricing for Beta CI and Observability monitors" (Nov 2, 2026), "Vercel slashes Firewall limits, adds metered Deployment Storage at $0.10/GB" (Oct 26, 2026) and "Vercel: Vercel Firewall limits cut: Enterprise Custom Firewall Rules 1,000→250; IP Blocking Hobby 3→10, Pro 100→40,…" (Oct 26, 2026). Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window Render, Aws and Railway also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Hobby, Pro, Enterprise · LimitChangedSession TracingTrace Retention
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby, Pro, Enterprise | Limit | Session Tracing | Trace Retention | Changed |
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 Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where "Session Tracing" becomes "Trace Retention".
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Vercel, the last 90 days
Full history- Nov 9, 2026packagingVercel extends trace retention up to 14 days, renames Session Tracing · this change
- Nov 6, 2026packagingVercel boosts Pro trace retention 14x to 14 days, Hobby to 3 days
- Nov 2, 2026packagingVercel adds usage pricing for Beta CI and Observability monitors
- 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
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Vercel raise prices in November 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: limit increase.
What changed on Vercel's pricing page between Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026?
Hobby, Pro, Enterprise limit: Session Tracing → Trace Retention, changed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Vercel change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 18 other pricing-page changes for Vercel in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Vercel boosts Pro trace retention 14x to 14 days, Hobby to 3 days" on Nov 6, 2026; Vercel has been tracked since 2024-10-01.