Reference
Hobby limits card
What the free plan includes, what it forbids, and what happens at the edge. Taught in Lesson 1.
Numbers copied from vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby (page dated 14 Sep 2026) on 2 Oct 2026. Vercel changes these; check the page before relying on one.
The rule above the numbers
“Hobby teams are restricted to non-commercial personal use only. All commercial usage of the platform requires either a Pro or Enterprise plan.”
Vercel's examples of commercial usage:
- Any method of requesting or processing payment from visitors of the site
- Advertising the sale of a product or service
- Receiving payment to create, update, or host the site
- Affiliate linking is the primary purpose of the site
- The inclusion of advertisements
Asking for donations does not count. Fair use guidelines
Monthly included usage
| Resource | Included on Hobby |
|---|---|
| Fast Data Transfer | 100 GB |
| Fast Origin Transfer | 10 GB |
| CDN requests | 1,000,000 |
| Function invocations | 1,000,000 |
| Function Active CPU | 4 CPU-hours |
| Function Provisioned Memory | 360 GB-hours |
| Image transformations | 5,000 |
| Web Analytics events | 50,000 |
| Speed Insights events | 10,000 per 30 days |
Fixed limits
| Limit | Hobby | Pro, for comparison |
|---|---|---|
| Projects | 200 | Unlimited |
| Deployments per day | 100 | 6,000 |
| Function maximum duration | 300 s | 800 s |
| Domains per project | 50 | Unlimited |
| Runtime logs kept | 1 hour | 1 day |
| Build machine | 2 vCPU, 8 GB | 4 vCPU, 8 GB and up |
| Cron jobs per project | 100 | 100 |
| Cron minimum interval | Once per day | Once per minute |
| Cron timing precision | Within the hour (±59 min) | Per minute |
| Function regions | Any single region | Multiple |
| Environment variables | 64 KB per deployment | 64 KB per deployment |
Sources: plan comparison, cron jobs, regions, variable size.
Not available on Hobby
- Team members and collaboration. A Hobby team has one owner.
- Deploying from a private repository owned by a GitHub organization, GitLab group or Bitbucket workspace. Source
- Custom environments such as
staging. Use a preview branch instead. Source - Password Protection for deployments. Vercel Authentication is available. Source
- Email support and spend management.
At the limit
There is no bill and no overage. “In most cases, if you exceed your usage limits on the Hobby plan, you will have to wait until 30 days have passed before you can use the feature again.” A cron expression that runs more than once a day fails at deployment rather than at run time.
Signs it is time for Pro
- The app takes money, sells something, or shows adverts.
- Someone else needs to push to it.
- You need more than an hour of logs to debug a problem.
- A job has to run more often than daily.