Vercel splits Speed Insights into free and paid Plus Events tiers
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
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What changed
Speed Insights now has a free base tier covering 10,000 events per team on a rolling 30-day window, plus a separately labeled paid 'Plus Events' add-on for usage beyond that. The usage window itself also changed, from calendar-month to rolling 30 days.
Why it matters
Watch whether Vercel applies the same free-base-plus-named-add-on treatment to its other bundled observability features (Edge, Blob, Sandbox) next — Speed Insights may be the template rather than a one-off, especially given how quickly Vercel has been touching CDN and overage pricing this month.
In context
Speed Insights' free/paid split is Vercel's sixth pricing restructure since April, and its second in two weeks after bundling CDN overages into a flat rate on Sep 14. It follows just three days after the Backends and Marketplace Integrations update, underscoring a cadence now running roughly every 12 days — among the fastest in the index alongside Datadog and MindsDB. The shift from calendar-month to rolling-30-day usage windows echoes the metering precision Vercel applied to Connect's Token Requests overhaul in August. Pricing restructures account for 14% of all changes tracked index-wide in the last six months, but Vercel's rate of six in under three months puts it well ahead of that pace.
What people are saying
“Yang gratis kadang paling jujur 📉 Vercel baru buka Speed Insights free tier buat semua plan dan semua project, dengan jatah 10.000 events per tim tiap 30 hari. Jadi, ngukur performa dari user beneran sekarang udah bukan barang mewah buat tim yang dompetnya tebal doang. Menurut gue ini mantep, karena gratisnya bikin alasan buat ngeles itu hilang. Banyak builder lokal telaten poles UI, tapi baru ribut kalau checkout lemot atau perpindahan page berasa berat di HP mid-range. Kalau data real user udah tinggal pasang, nebak-nebak makin susah dibela. Efek bagusnya, standar malu tim produk ikut naik. Demo yang mulus di laptop sendiri tapi ngos-ngosan di Android murah bakal makin cepat ketahuan ⚙️ Kalau lo lagi ngebangun app kecil, lo bakal pakai jatah gratis itu buat halaman marketing dulu atau langsung ke flow yang paling dekat ke duit?”
View original“Did @vercel secretly moved their speed insights to Pro tier? What the fuck?”
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