Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage
Vercel's changelog carries an entry titled "Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage." The entry states that projects on the Hobby plan now keep fewer deployments, and it frames the change as a way to free up storage. The Hobby plan is the tier Vercel offers for hobby projects, and the change is scoped to those projects rather than to other plan types. The source text provided is limited to the changelog title and page metadata; it does not include a numeric retention limit, a retention period, a rollout date, or a description of how existing deployments are handled. It also does not state whether users are notified before older deployments are removed, whether any action is required from project owners, or whether the change affects build logs, artifacts, or other stored data. The only date associated with the item is its publication timestamp of September 16, 2026. Because the excerpt does not quantify the reduction, the change can only be described qualitatively: fewer deployments are retained for Hobby projects, with storage savings given as the reason.
Developers on Vercel's Hobby plan will have fewer past deployments retained, so older deployments may no longer be available on those projects.