Vercel Adds Cost-Efficient Basic Build Machines
π‘Cut build costs for smaller AI apps and agents without changing your Vercel workflow.
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What Changed
Basic build machines provide 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory.
Why It Matters
AI developers running small agents or lightweight applications can reduce build costs by choosing fixed-capacity machines instead of automatically scaling builders. Teams with highly variable or resource-intensive builds should continue using Elastic build machines to avoid performance bottlenecks.
What To Do Next
Review your Vercel projectsβ build resource usage and test Basic build machines on a small AI application through Project Settings before switching production workloads.
Key Points
- β’Basic build machines provide 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory.
- β’Pro and Enterprise users can enable them through team settings, project settings, or Vercel CLI 59.6.0 and later.
- β’Pricing is $0.0035 per vCPU-minute, or $0.007 per build minute.
- β’New Pro and Enterprise projects still default to Elastic build machines, which scale automatically.
- β’Hobby accounts now use the Basic build machine designation for their existing 2 vCPU builders.
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