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Promise vs reality
Downtime used against the allowance
0 min of major incidents53 min allowed in 365 days
0 major and 7 minor incidents. 23 h degraded (not counted).
Major incident minutes per month
Allowed per month: 4.4 min
- Promised
- 99.99%
- Observed, 365d
- 100%
- Major incident time
- 0 min
- Credit on first breach
- 10%
Commitments and credits
- EnterprisePlatform components that serve customer content to websites/applications (not the API or CLI)99.99%
Monthly uptime below, credit of the bill
- Below 99.99%10%
- Below 99.1%25%
- Below 95%50%
Terms
- Measured
- Uptime Percentage = Uptime / (Total minutes in month - Excused Downtime) x 100; tracked from daily system logs
- Credit cap
- Credits for all Unscheduled Downtime in a billing month will not exceed 50% of the amount due for the Services for that month
- Claim window
- Notify Vercel in writing within thirty (30) days from the time you become eligible, with log files showing the downtime
- How to claim
- Written notice to Vercel with log files showing Unscheduled Downtime and date/time; credits applied to future use within 60 days
Not covered
- Failure of any third-party vendor or the Internet in general
- Factors outside Vercel's reasonable control / force majeure
- Customer or third-party software or hardware
- Components that do not serve customer content (e.g. the API or CLI)
Vercel ... will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the platform as a service that serves your content to your websites and/or applications (" Services ") available 99.99% of the time
Enterprise plan only (page title 'Enterprise Service Level Agreement'; pricing page lists '99.99% SLA' under Enterprise). Credit bands are printed as '99.1% to 99.98%' = 10%, '95% to 99%' = 25%, '< 95%' = 50%; the gap between 99.0 and 99.1 is in the source. Hobby and Pro have no published uptime SLA.
Evidence: incidents, last 365 days
- Aug 20, 2026New container functions are failingFunctionsDegraded
- Jul 17, 2026Increased invocation failures for Hobby Team functionsFunctionsMinor
- Jul 2, 2026Degraded performance on CDN, Dashboard, Functions in Washington, Cleveland (iad1, cle1)Dashboard, CLE1 - Cleveland, East US, IAD1 - Washington DC, USA, FunctionsMinor
- Jun 8, 2026Elevated Functions Invocation Errors in DUB1 (Dublin, Ireland) RegionFunctionsMinor
- May 28, 2026Elevated Function Invocation Errors in Stockholm region (ARN1)Functions, Routing MiddlewareMinor
- May 8, 2026Elevated errors across multiple services in IAD1 (Washington, D.C., USA)Functions, Queues, Routing Middleware, WorkflowMinor
- Apr 2, 2026Elevated errors (SIGSEGV) for Vercel Functions running Node.js 20 in cle1 and dub1 regionsFunctionsMinor
- Mar 2, 2026Elevated deployment and function invocations failuresBuilds, Functions, Routing MiddlewareMinor
SLA changes
- Jul18Vercel platform (content serving)June 6, 2022 version (snapshot 2024-06-14) excluded Scheduled Downtime and printed the first credit band as '99% to 99.98%'; the July 18, 2024 version drops the Scheduled Downtime exclusion, scopes the SLA to content-serving components only (not API/CLI) and prints the first band as '99.1% to 99.98%'.Source
- Jun6Vercel platform (content serving)Enterprise availability commitment lowered from 100% (version 'Last update: April 21st, 2020', still live in the 2021-08-14 snapshot) to 99.99% ('Last updated: June 6, 2022'); the 2022 version also added a credit table (99% to 99.98% = 10%, 95% to 99% = 25%, below 95% = 50%). The 2020 text references credits 'as set forth below' but no table appears in the snapshot.Source
Other platforms SLAs
ServiceDowntime vs allowed
Twilio Flex (Critical Scenarios)Twilio99.99% / 100%
Vercel platform (content serving)Vercel99.99% / 100%
Loom (Cloud)Atlassian99.95% / n/a
App PlatformDigitalOcean99.95% / 100%
Regional Load BalancersDigitalOcean99.9% / 100%
Hugging Face Hub (Team / Enterprise)Hugging Facenone / n/aNo public SLA
Stripe API and payments servicesStripenone / n/aNo public SLA
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