Vercel
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Hobby: $0Pro: $20/mo (first step)Pro: $20/mo (first step)
Any site that earns money, including through ads, must be on Pro, so the real first step is $0 to $20 a month.
Vercel price cliff
Any site that earns money, including through ads, must be on Pro, so the real first step is $0 to $20 a month.
Pick a use. Plans the vendor’s own terms forbid for it turn grey and dashed. “Unknown” means we have not found a restriction in the page we read, not that none exists. Heights use a square-root scale so $5 and $599 both show.
What the terms say about commercial use
“All commercial usage of the platform requires either a Pro or Enterprise plan. Commercial usage is defined as any Deployment that is used for the purpose of financial gain of anyone involved in any part of the production of the project.”
Source: vercel.com/docs/limits/fair-use-guidelines, read 2026-11-10.
Plans and limits
Hobby
$0
- “Hobby teams are restricted to non-commercial personal use only”
- Asking for donations is not commercial usage
Pro
$20/mo
- $20 per user per month, billed annually ($24 month-to-month)
- 1 TB bandwidth included, then $0.15 per GB
- 10M edge requests a month
- $20 usage credit included
Enterprise
not captured
- Custom pricing
- Contact sales
Compare
- Netlify
- Render
- Railway
- Cloudflare Pages
- Heroku
- Fly.io
- DigitalOcean App Platform
- Strapi
- Cloudflare Workers
- Vercel alternatives
Sources
- vercel.com/pricing (vendor page, read 2026-11-10)
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