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# Increasing Vercel Functions memory limit beyond 4 GB for image rendering

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cprcrack (@cprcrack) · 2026-02-04

Hello, for our particular use-case it’s very useful to have more memory in `Vercel Functions`.

## Problem
We do some heavy image rendering and moving it to a separate service would be tedious and not worth it for us in our pre-launch phase. 

## Request
Being able to have `8 GB` of memory instead of `4 GB` would fix all of our issues. We are on the `Pro` plan. Is it possible to have this manually increased by Vercel?

Thanks for your support,  
Cristian

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cprcrack (@cprcrack) · 2026-02-04

Looks like AWS Lambda (which I understand is used by Vercel Functions) can be configured up to 10 GB of RAM, so this should be technically possible?


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-02-04

[quote="cprcrack, post:5, topic:32810"]
so this should be technically possible?
[/quote]

You're correct that AWS Lambda does support up to 10GB of memory! However, as far as I know we have a limit Functions to 4GB maximum across all plans.

For your image rendering needs, I'd strongly recommend:

1. **External image processing services** (Cloudinary, Imgix) These are purpose-built for heavy image workloads and can handle much larger memory requirements
2. **Background job processing** Use services like Inngest or Temporal to process images asynchronously with dedicated workers

I'll also share this with the product team as feedback - in case they are cooking up something to change these :slight_smile:


cprcrack (@cprcrack) · 2026-02-04

So can you confirm it's not possible to manually request an increase of the limits?


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-02-05

Confirmed with the engineering team, it’s not possible to request an increase.