Vercel pricing looks simple on the surface — free, $20/seat/month, call us — but the bill a real Next.js project generates depends almost entirely on a handful of usage meters that aren't obvious until you've already deployed. Here is what those meters actually are, what triggers them, and what a mid-traffic marketing site should expect to pay in 2026.
What Hobby actually allows commercially
Hobby is free and it is not for commercial use. Vercel's terms explicitly prohibit using the Hobby plan for commercial projects. That is not a grey area — it covers any site that generates revenue directly or indirectly, including lead-generation sites, e-commerce storefronts, and SaaS marketing pages. If you are building something for a client or for your own business, you are on Pro from day one.
What Hobby gives you if you are legitimately prototyping: 100 GB bandwidth per month, 6,000 Edge Middleware invocations, 500,000 Edge Request units, and serverless function execution capped at 100 GB-hours. Deployments are limited to one concurrent build. That is fine for a portfolio or a learning project. It is not fine for anything a client will see in production.
Pro per-seat maths for small teams
