Vercel has doubled the disk space on its two smallest build machines, Basic and Standard, from 32 GB to 64 GB. The company’s changelog says the change applies automatically on every plan, including the free Hobby plan, with no extra charge and no settings to change. Its larger Enhanced and Turbo machines already had 64 GB, so every fixed machine size now has the same amount.
Vercel’s developer account summed it up on X:
Every build now gets 64 GB of disk space included for free.
— Vercel Developers on X
Ship more dependencies & bigger output without running out of space.
What “every build” covers
When someone deploys a website or app to Vercel, the platform starts a temporary computer, which it calls a build machine, to turn the project’s source code into the finished site. That computer downloads the code, installs the software packages the project depends on and runs its build script, then Vercel sends the result to its servers. The disk is that computer’s working storage while the job runs. It’s separate from the machine’s memory, and from the build cache Vercel keeps between builds.
Hobby accounts always build on Basic, a machine with 2 vCPUs (virtual processor cores) and 8 GB of memory, so free users get the larger disk on every build. Pro and Enterprise teams can pick Basic, Standard, Enhanced or Turbo, or use Elastic, which picks a machine size for each project from its recent builds and is the default for new paid teams.
| Machine | vCPUs | Memory | Disk before | Disk now | Build cache cap | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 2 | 8 GB | 32 GB | 64 GB | 1.5 GB | All plans; the only option on Hobby |
| Standard | 4 | 8 GB | 32 GB | 64 GB | 1.5 GB | Pro and Enterprise |
| Enhanced | 8 | 16 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 3 GB | Pro and Enterprise |
| Turbo | 30 | 60 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 4.75 GB | Pro and Enterprise |
| Elastic | 4 to 30 | 8 to 60 GB | Listed as “auto-scaled” | Not stated | That of the assigned machine | Pro and Enterprise; default for new teams |
Vercel’s documentation doesn’t give Elastic’s disk a number. Elastic assigns each build one of the fixed machine types, and the changelog says the increase covers “all plans and build machine types”, which would put Elastic builds at 64 GB too. Vercel hasn’t spelled that out.
“The change applies automatically across all plans and build machine types at no additional charge, with no configuration changes required.”
— Vercel changelog
The disk is free, the build time isn’t
The extra space costs nothing more, but builds still have a price on paid plans. Basic is included with Hobby. For Pro and Enterprise teams, Vercel bills builds at US$0.0035 per CPU minute, which is one minute of build time multiplied by the machine’s vCPUs. On Basic that comes to US$0.007 a minute. Before the change, a paid team that needed 64 GB of disk had to use Enhanced or Turbo, which cost more per minute because they have more vCPUs.
What hasn’t changed
Other build limits stay as they were. A build can run for 45 minutes at most on every plan. The build cache, which saves downloaded packages and other files so the next build can skip that work, stays capped at 1.5 GB on Basic and Standard. Vercel raised the cap on Enhanced and Turbo to 3 GB and 4.75 GB in January. Memory on Basic and Standard stays at 8 GB.
Vercel says the extra space gives “more room for the packages your project uses and the files generated during a build, reducing the risk of running out of disk space.” Builds that use up a machine’s disk are cancelled, according to its troubleshooting guide. Since 2023, the build logs have explained when a build fails because the disk filled up. Setting the VERCEL_BUILD_SYSTEM_REPORT=1 environment variable produces a report on every deployment, breaking down the size of the source code, the node_modules package folders and the build output, and flagging any file over 100 MB.
A steady climb
Archived copies of Vercel’s documentation show how quickly these numbers have moved. In December 2025, Standard machines had 23 GB of disk, Enhanced had 56 GB and Turbo had 64 GB. By late August 2026, Standard had 32 GB and Enhanced 64 GB. In September, Vercel renamed Hobby’s 2-vCPU machines Basic and let paid teams choose them as a cheaper option.
The changelog only covers build machines. It doesn’t mention Vercel Sandbox or the Vercel CI beta.
What Sulat could and couldn’t confirm
Vercel’s reference pages hadn’t caught up when this article was written. The build machine table, the limits page and the Hobby plan comparison still listed 32 GB for Basic and Standard.
Sulat hasn’t run a build to measure the disk on any machine type. The 64 GB figure comes from Vercel’s changelog and its post on X.
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