Spend Management is available at no additional cost to Pro teams and to Enterprise teams on the Flexible Commitment plan.

The spend amount, shown as On-Demand Budget in your billing settings, is set per billing cycle.

Setting the amount halfway through a billing cycle considers your current spend. You can increase or decrease your spend amount as needed. If you configure it below the current monthly spend, Spend Management will trigger any configured actions (including pausing all projects) on its next check.

What does Spend Management include?

The spend amount applies to metered resources used by all projects on your team. What counts toward it depends on your plan:

• Pro: metered usage that goes beyond your Pro plan monthly credit
• Enterprise on Flexible Commitment: the metered usage that draws down from your prepaid balance

It does not include seats, integrations (such as Marketplace), or separate add-ons, which Vercel charges on a monthly basis.

How Vercel checks your spend amount

Vercel checks your metered resource usage often to determine if you are approaching or have exceeded your spend amount. This check happens every few minutes.

Because these checks are not continuous, notifications, webhooks, and project pausing can trigger several minutes after you cross your spend amount. Plan for this delay if you are relying on Spend Management to cap usage, and consider setting your spend amount below the absolute maximum you are willing to spend.

Managing your spend amount

1. To enable spend management, you must have an Owner or Billing role on your team
2. From your team's dashboard, open Settings in the sidebar
3. Select Billing from the list
4. Under Spend Management, toggle the switch to enabled:

1. Set the On-Demand Budget amount in USD at which you would like to receive a notification or trigger an action
2. Select the action(s) to happen when your spend amount is reached: pause all your projects, send notifications, or trigger a webhook URL

Managing alert threshold notifications

When you set a spend amount, Vercel automatically enables web and email notifications for your team. These get triggered when spending on your team reaches 50%, 75%, and 100% of the spend amount. You can also receive SMS notifications when your team reaches 100% of the spend amount. To manage your notifications:

1. You must have an Owner or Billing role on your team
2. From your team's dashboard, open Settings in the sidebar
3. Select My Notifications from the list
4. Under Team, ensure that Spend Management is selected
5. Select the Notifications
6. Repeat the previous step for the Web, Email, and SMS notification sections

   

1. You must have an Owner or Billing role on your team. Note that following these steps only configures your SMS notifications. Each member with an Owner or Billing role can configure their own SMS notifications for Spend Management
2. Set your spend amount
3. From your team's dashboard, open Settings in the sidebar
4. Select My Notifications from the list, scroll to SMS at the bottom of the page and toggle the switch to Enabled. If your personal profile has a phone number associated with it, SMS notifications will be enabled by default
5. Under Team, ensure that Spend Management is selected
6. Enter your phone number and follow the steps to verify it

Pausing projects

Vercel provides an option to automatically pause the production deployment for all of your projects when your spend amount is reached. While paused, your production deployments stop serving traffic: your websites, APIs, and functions are unavailable to visitors until you resume each project.

1. In the Spend Management section of your team's settings, enable and set your spend amount
2. Ensure the Pause Production Deployments switch is Enabled
3. Confirm the action by entering the team name and select Continue. Your changes save automatically
4. When your team reaches the spend amount, Vercel automatically pauses the production deployment for all projects on your team

checks your spend every few minutes, projects can keep serving traffic and accruing usage for several minutes after you cross the spend amount.

Pausing only affects production deployments. It does not stop AI Gateway API key usage or v0 usage billed to your team, which continue to count toward your spend amount.

When visitors access your production deployment while it is paused, they will see a 503 DEPLOYMENT_PAUSED error.

Unpausing projects

Projects need to be resumed on an individual basis, either through the dashboard or the Vercel REST API.

Projects won't automatically unpause if you increase the spend amount, you must resume each project manually.

Configuring a webhook

You can configure a webhook URL to trigger events such as serving a static version of your site, pausing a project, or sending a Slack notification.

Vercel will send a HTTPS POST request to the URL that you provide when a spend amount reaches a threshold.

To configure a webhook for spend management: