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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.

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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.

The key facts

8 to know
  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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