Commercial transition
Previous stateHobby deployments outside the protected current-production and related exceptions were governed primarily by a 30-day retention window.
→New stateEach Hobby project keeps three recent production deployments and three recent deployments of any type regardless of age; when a team exceeds 10 GB, non-exempt deployments can be removed immediately.
Who is affected
Vercel Hobby teams with dormant projects, preview deployments or deployment storage near or above the 10 GB allowance.
Action required
Review retained deployments and protected aliases or active branches, reduce deployment storage where needed, and do not rely on the predecessor 30-day window for non-exempt deployments when over the limit.
Evidence boundary
Vercel preserves the current production, aliased and active-branch exceptions. The change does not delete every deployment older than a fixed age and does not alter Pro storage billing beyond the cited comparison.
Timeline
- Hobby retention successor took effect
Vercel introduced count-based retained cohorts and immediate deletion of non-exempt deployments for over-limit Hobby teams.
Official sources
- Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storageVercel · 2026-09-16 · Official Vercel retention, storage allowance and exception authority