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Vercel Sandbox now supports 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and 5,000 vCPUs per minute

Vercel's sandbox infrastructure just 5x'd capacity. If you're building with agents or multi-step AI workflows, this changes your deployment math.

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Why it matters

Vercel Sandbox's capacity increases enable practitioners to scale agentic and multi-turn AI workloads without hitting infrastructure ceilings — a practical enabler for agent deployments and real-time AI features.

The key facts

10 to know
  1. Concurrent sandboxes increased from 2,000 to 10,000 (5x)

  2. vCPU allocation rate increased from 200/min (Pro) and 400/min (Enterprise) to up to 5,000/min

  3. Dynamic quota system: starts at 150 vCPU/min, scales by 500 vCPU/min with sustained usage

  4. Changes apply automatically to all Pro and Enterprise teams

  5. Published August 5, 2026

  6. Concurrent sandboxes: 2,000 → 10,000 (5x increase)

  7. vCPU allocation rate: 200-400/min → up to 5,000/min (12.5x at peak)

  8. Dynamic quota model: starts at 150 vCPUs/min, scales with sustained usage

  9. Applies automatically to Pro and Enterprise plans

  10. August 2026 release

Go to the source

Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: We've increased the default quotas for on Pro and Enterprise plans:Vercel Sandbox The higher vCPU allocation rate is possible thanks to a new dynamic quota: instead of a fixed limit, the allowed rate now ramps with sustained usage: it starts at 150 vCPUs per minute and increases by 500 vCPUs per…
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