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Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta

Vercel Sandbox Drives now in public beta—persistent storage for agent workspaces and multi-run datasets.

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Why it matters

Vercel is shipping infrastructure for agents to persist state across sandbox instances, directly enabling use cases like agent memory and reusable datasets. Practitioners building on Vercel can now architect stateful agent workflows without external storage.

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  1. Drives available on Hobby, Pro, Enterprise tiers

  2. Persistent storage mounted as filesystem directory

  3. Reusable across sandbox instances and runs

  4. Single read-write mount; concurrent read-only snapshots supported

  5. Up to 4 Drives per sandbox at separate paths

  6. Default 1 TiB max (1 GiB on Hobby), configurable to 16 TiB

  7. Pricing: $0.05/GB-month storage, $0.0015/GB reads, $0.004/GB writes in iad1

  8. Hobby tier includes 15 GB storage, 30 GB reads/writes monthly

  9. Regional isolation: Drives locked to creation region

  10. Drives available in public beta across Hobby, Pro, Enterprise tiers

  11. Persistent storage mounted as filesystem; survives sandbox shutdown

  12. One read-write mount per Drive; multiple read-only snapshots for concurrent access

  13. Up to 4 Drives per sandbox, up to 16 TiB configurable (default 1 TiB)

  14. Pricing: $0.05/GB-month storage (iad1); $0.0015/GB reads; $0.004/GB writes

  15. Hobby tier includes 15 GB storage, 30 GB reads, 30 GB writes/month

  16. Designed for agent workspace preservation, on-disk memory, dataset/model/dependency reuse

  17. Regional locking: Drives stay in creation region; sandboxes must run same region

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Publisher excerpt: Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now available in public beta on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. A Drive is persistent storage that you mount as a directory in a Vercel Sandbox. It isn’t tied to a single sandbox, so you can reuse the same Drive across runs and different sandbox instances. Use Drives to…
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