Vercel Pricing in India 2026: Plans and Real Cost in INR

Vercel pricing has two headline numbers: $0 for Hobby and $20 a month for Pro. What you pay from India is built from more parts than that: the Pro platform fee, a fee for every extra developer, usage beyond a $20 monthly credit, any add-ons, GST on the invoice, and the forex charge your card adds.

This guide lists every rate that matters, uses the Mumbai region’s prices, and works three bills through to the rupee amount on your card statement.

All figures are from Vercel’s official pricing documentation, checked on 14 October 2026. Vercel changed its plans twice in the last year, so re-check the rates before you budget.

Vercel pricing plans at a glance (USD and INR)

Is the Hobby plan free for commercial use?

No. The Vercel Hobby plan is free, but commercial use is not allowed on it. Two rules catch Indian teams most often. First, Hobby is for personal, non-commercial use only. Vercel counts a site as commercial if anyone involved earns from it, including a freelancer paid to build it, a site that takes payments, or one that shows ads.

Second, a Hobby account cannot deploy a private repository owned by a GitHub organisation. A college project in your personal account is fine; a client’s site is not.

Within those rules, Hobby comes with these monthly allowances:

Hobby never sends a bill. When you cross a limit, Vercel stops that feature instead. In most cases you wait until 30 days have passed before you can use it again, or you upgrade. For a portfolio that is a fair trade. For anything your income depends on, it means the site can go down on a busy day.

Vercel pricing on Pro: per-seat fee and usage credit

The $20 Pro platform fee buys three things: one deploying seat, a $20 usage credit, and the included CDN tier. The credit is per team, not per seat. It is spent from the first unit of usage, it expires at the end of each month, and once it is used up, usage is billed on demand.

Every additional person who deploys or manages projects is a paid seat at $20 a month. So the Vercel Pro price for a team of four developers is $80 a month before any usage. Viewer seats are free, so a client or a manager who only checks previews and analytics does not add to the bill.

Flat Rate CDN, included and paid tiers

Since 8 September 2026, new Pro teams are on Flat Rate CDN by default. Pro includes the lowest tier, and you move up a tier only if a whole month’s usage stays above it:

A one-day traffic spike does not change the tier. One thing to watch: the main pricing page still lists 10 million CDN requests for Pro, while the Flat Rate CDN documentation lists 1 million for the included tier. Teams created before the change may also still be on the older metered model. Your team’s Usage page shows which one applies to you.

Usage rates in the Mumbai region

Most usage on Vercel is priced by region, and functions run in Washington, D.C. (iad1) unless you change the project’s function region. Running near Indian users in Mumbai (bom1) costs a little more per unit. These are Vercel’s Mumbai regional rates next to the Washington ones:

The row that surprises people is Fast Origin Transfer: the data your functions send to Vercel’s CDN. It has no included amount on Pro, and in Mumbai it costs about four times the Washington rate. An app that renders most pages in a function pays it on every uncached response.

Functions are billed in two parts. Active CPU counts only the time your code is actually computing, not the time it waits for a database or an API. Provisioned memory is billed for as long as an instance is alive, waiting included. The default instance is 1 vCPU with 2 GB of memory.

Build minutes, the line most teams never check

Hobby builds on a basic machine for free. On Pro, builds are billed: new teams use Elastic build machines by default, charged at $0.0035 per vCPU per minute. A 4-vCPU Standard machine therefore costs $0.014 a minute, an 8-vCPU Enhanced machine $0.028, and a 30-vCPU Turbo machine $0.105.

A team that pushes 300 two-minute builds a month on a Standard machine spends about $8.40, inside the credit.

Several teams on Vercel’s community forum have reported invoices of $180 to $660 from build minutes on large machines they did not expect to be using, so set the machine type yourself if your builds are small.

Add-ons that are billed on top

Password Protection changed in September 2026 from a $150 team add-on to $20 per project. A team protecting eight or more client previews now pays more than before.

Spend Management: alerts by default, pausing only if you ask

New Pro teams get spend alerts at $200 of on-demand usage per billing cycle. You can change the amount and, optionally, turn on Pause Production Deployments.

Two limits apply. The spend amount counts only metered usage above the credit, not seats or add-ons. And Vercel checks spend every few minutes, so usage continues for a short while after you cross the line.

With pausing on, visitors see a 503 page until you resume each project by hand.

Vercel pricing on an Indian card: GST and forex

Vercel prices and bills in US dollars, and its prices exclude GST. Its tax page says it began collecting VAT, GST or the local equivalent from international customers on invoices issued from 1 April 2026, as a separate line, where it is registered to collect. Three things then decide the rupee amount:

• GST. Indian GST on an online service from abroad is 18%. If your Vercel invoice carries it, add 18%. If you are a GST-registered business and the invoice does not, you usually pay the 18% yourself under reverse charge and claim it back as input tax credit. The steps are in our guide to reverse charge on foreign hosting; check your own case with your accountant.
• The exchange rate on the day the card is charged. We use Rs 95.20 to the dollar, the mid-market rate on 14 October 2026.
• The card’s forex markup. Many Indian cards charge 3.5% on foreign-currency spends, plus 18% GST on that fee: about 4.13% in total. Some cards now advertise zero markup, so check yours.

Two more points that only apply in India:

1. Recurring card payments above Rs 15,000. Under the RBI’s Digital Payments - E-mandate Framework, 2026 (issued 21 April 2026), an automatic card payment above Rs 15,000 needs your approval each time. Bill 3 below crosses that line, so it can wait for an OTP, or fail if nobody approves it.
2. Declined Indian cards. Since late 2024, Indian users have reported on Vercel’s community forum that recurring charges on Indian cards are declined by their banks. Vercel staff suggested paying the invoice manually from billing settings. Make sure your card is enabled for international and recurring payments before an invoice is due.

Vercel pricing in practice: three worked monthly bills

The monthly Pro bill, before tax, is:

1. $20 platform fee
2. + $20 for each developer seat after the first
3. + usage at the rates above, minus the $20 credit
4. + a Flat Rate CDN tier if a month’s traffic stays above 1 million requests or 1 TB
5. + add-ons you have switched on

The usage figures below are assumptions for illustration, with functions in Mumbai. Your own numbers are on the Usage page.

Bill 1: a freelancer’s client site. One developer, light traffic, usage inside the credit. Total: $20.00.

Bill 2: a three-person startup. Usage: 50 hours of active CPU ($7.00), 600 GB-hours of memory ($6.96), 3 million invocations ($1.80), 20 GB of Fast Origin Transfer ($5.00) and 2,400 build CPU minutes ($8.40). That is $29.16 of usage, or $9.16 after the credit. Total: 20 + 40 + 9.16 = $69.16.

Bill 3: a growing product. Three developers, about 4 million requests a month (so the $20 CDN tier), and one password-protected staging project. Usage: 200 hours of active CPU ($28.00), 2,400 GB-hours of memory ($27.84), 10 million invocations ($6.00), 100 GB of Fast Origin Transfer ($25.00) and 6,000 build CPU minutes ($21.00): $107.84, or $87.84 after the credit. Total: 20 + 40 + 20 + 87.84 + 20 = $187.84.

In rupees, using the GST and forex steps above, the three bills come to:

If your invoice has no Indian GST and you are not registered, leave out the GST column: the first bill then comes to about Rs 1,983.

When a long-running server is cheaper than Vercel

Vercel is built for frontends and functions. If what you run is a Node.js server, an API or a full-stack app that should stay running, compare it with a host that bills in rupees. If Railway is on your list, our Railway pricing guide works the same bills through to rupees.

Voroa’s web services run in Mumbai as long-running containers. A bill has two parts: a workspace plan (Free, or Growth at Rs 499 per month) and a size for each service, with the smallest always-on size at Rs 298 a month.

Prices exclude 18% GST, and every payment gets a GST invoice, paid by UPI, an Indian card or netbanking. There is no dollar conversion and no forex markup.

The Free plan has one member and Growth allows up to five, so for a team of three, Growth plus one Starter service comes to Rs 797 before GST, or about Rs 940 with it.

That is not a like-for-like swap: Voroa does not run Vercel’s edge functions, ISR or image optimisation, and bandwidth allowances differ by plan. The full list is on the pricing page. Read when a Vercel alternative makes sense before you move anything.

Vercel pricing FAQ

Is Vercel free for commercial use?

Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial projects, within fixed monthly allowances. Any commercial site, including one built for a paying client, needs Pro or Enterprise.

Is Vercel Pro $20 per user?

The $20 platform fee includes one developer seat and a $20 usage credit for the whole team. Each extra developer is $20 a month and adds no extra credit. Viewer seats are free.

Does Vercel charge GST in India?

Vercel’s prices exclude tax. Since 1 April 2026 it adds VAT, GST or the equivalent as a separate invoice line where it is registered to collect it. A GST-registered business that is not charged usually pays it under reverse charge. A GST invoice for cloud hosting explains what a valid Indian invoice must show.

Why is my Vercel bill more than $20?

Usually one of these: extra developer seats, build minutes on a large machine, Fast Origin Transfer from functions, a higher Flat Rate CDN tier, or an add-on such as Password Protection. Your invoice lists each one.

What is Vercel pricing in rupees?

Vercel bills in US dollars, not rupees. The $20 Pro fee is about Rs 1,904 at Rs 95.20 to the dollar, and about Rs 2,340 once 18% GST and a typical card markup are added. If paying in rupees with a GST invoice matters to you, our Supabase pricing guide shows the same dollar-to-rupee working for a database bill.

Leaving Vercel for a rupee bill

A Vercel Pro team in India pays in dollars every month, and the GST and forex steps above come with it. Voroa bills in rupees from an Indian entity, with GST on the invoice, so a registered business takes the input tax credit straight from it. There is no reverse-charge GST to pay in cash first, and no card forex markup.

Moving usually costs a month of two bills. To take that off the table, you can apply for migration credits: up to Rs 10,000 set against your Voroa bills, granted by hand after a person reads your application. Applying is not the same as being approved.

The full comparison of a dollar bill and a rupee bill is in INR vs USD cloud hosting. Paying Netlify instead? The same sums for its credit plans are in Netlify pricing in India.

Get a rupee price for your app

You can deploy a GitHub repository to Voroa on the free size and see what the paid sizes cost in rupees before you upgrade. Deploy your first app from GitHub takes a few minutes, and every size is listed on Voroa pricing in INR.

Last checked: 14 October 2026, against Vercel’s pricing, regional pricing and tax documentation. Still deciding? Read our Vercel alternative guide for India.