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Vercel Sandbox maximum duration extended to 5 hours

5 hours. That's how long Vercel's AI agents can now run without interruption—10x longer than before.

Reporting by Vercel Blog 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Vercel's sandbox extension removes a critical bottleneck for production AI agent deployments. Longer runtimes unlock data processing and agentic workflows that were previously impossible on the platform, signaling enterprise demand for extended autonomous task execution.

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  1. Vercel Sandbox max duration extended from 45 minutes to 5 hours

  2. Feature available to Pro and Enterprise teams

  3. Enables long-lived agentic workflows, large-scale data processing, and end-to-end testing pipelines

  4. 10x duration increase (45min → 300min)

  5. Sandbox max duration extended from 45 minutes to 5 hours

  6. Available to Pro and Enterprise teams

  7. Use cases: large-scale data processing, end-to-end testing pipelines, long-lived agentic workflows

  8. Published: September 10, 2025

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Publisher excerpt: can now run Vercel Sandboxes for up to 5 hours (up from 45 minutes).Pro and Enterprise teams This new max duration unlocks workloads that require longer runtimes, such as large-scale data processing, end-to-end testing pipelines, and long-lived agentic workflows. now and learn more in the .Get…
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