Vercel Hobby Deployments Stuck in Queued State Before Build Starts
Summary
I am experiencing a sudden deployment issue on my Vercel Hobby team.
My Vercel projects were deploying normally for several days, with previous deployments completing successfully in approximately 7–13 seconds.
Starting around September 18, 2026, new deployments began getting stuck in "Queued" / "Initializing" and never reaching the actual build stage.
I initially suspected a project-specific issue, but I created a completely new Vercel project using the exact same GitHub repository and the latest commit. The new project is experiencing the same problem.
This makes the issue appear to be unrelated to my project configuration or source code.
Account / Team
Vercel team:
"DEVZIKKY"
Plan:
"Hobby"
Affected projects:
"zmailer"
and newly created:
"zmail"
GitHub repository:
"zikky0001-droid/zmail"
Production branch:
"main"
Repository / Latest Commit
Latest commit:
"ab10878"
Commit message:
"Add CSS variables and themes section"
The commit is shown by GitHub as:
"Verified"
The commit contains only:
"1 file changed" "+1 line"
The changed file is:
"public/api-index.js"
The repository contains a normal static/API project structure including:
"public/" "api/" "templates/" "package.json" "vercel.json"
There are no unusually large changes associated with this deployment.
What was working previously
Before this problem appeared, GitHub pushes were automatically triggering Vercel deployments normally.
Recent successful deployments included:
Commit "3927f20"
- Status: Ready
- Build duration: approximately 12 seconds
Commit "9deddf8"
- Status: Ready
- Build duration: approximately 7 seconds
Their build logs showed the normal process:
- Vercel build environment started
- GitHub repository cloned
- Build cache restored
- Vercel CLI started
- Dependencies installed
- Vercel build completed
- Deployment completed
- Cache uploaded
Therefore the project has successfully built on Vercel before.
Timeline of the current problem
- Latest GitHub commit
I pushed commit:
"ab10878"
GitHub shows the commit correctly on "main".
Initially, the automatic Vercel deployment did not appear as expected.
- Existing project
The existing Vercel project "zmailer" began having deployments stuck in:
"Initializing"
and/or:
"Queued"
The deployment did not progress normally.
I also attempted to create a deployment manually from Vercel using the latest commit.
The manually created deployment also became stuck.
- I investigated project settings
The project uses:
Framework:
"Other"
Root Directory:
"./"
Node.js:
"24.x"
Ignored Build Step:
"Automatic"
Build Machine:
"Basic — 2 vCPUs / 8 GB"
The project had previously deployed successfully using the same general configuration.
- I created a completely new Vercel project
To determine whether the problem was specific to the existing "zmailer" project, I created a new Vercel project:
"zmail"
I imported the exact same GitHub repository:
"zikky0001-droid/zmail"
from:
"main"
The new project detected the latest commit:
"ab10878"
However, even this completely new project's initial deployment became:
"Queued"
and remained there.
The new project had no previous deployment history.
This is important because it suggests the issue is not caused by an old queued deployment or corrupted deployment history in the original "zmailer" project.
Build logs
The affected deployments do not reach the normal build stage.
There are no normal build logs showing steps such as:
"Cloning repository"
"Installing dependencies"
"Running vercel build"
or
"Build Completed"
The deployment remains in the queue before those build steps appear.
Usage / limits checked
I checked the Vercel Team Usage page for the last 30 days.
Important values:
Fast Data Transfer:
"11.93 kB / 100 GB"
Edge Requests:
"3 / 1M"
Function Invocations:
"0 / 1M"
Function Duration:
"0 GB-Hrs / 100 GB-Hrs"
Deployment Storage:
"0 B / 10 GB"
Functions Storage:
"0 B / 10 GB"
Blob Data Storage:
"0 B / 1 GB"
Artifacts:
"0 B"
Build CPU Minutes:
"2m"
There is therefore no indication that Deployment Storage or the major displayed Hobby usage limits have been exhausted.
Concurrent build configuration
The team is on the Hobby plan.
The Team Build and Deployment settings show:
"Disable On-Demand Concurrent Builds"
with the description:
"Run one build at a time. Others queue."
I understand that this can cause deployments to queue.
However, the unusual part is that a completely new Vercel project, with no previous deployment history, also has its first deployment stuck in "Queued" for several minutes without reaching the build stage.
Therefore I am trying to determine whether this is normal Hobby queue behavior or whether my team's build queue is stuck.
Git integration
The original project shows:
Connected Git Repository:
"zikky0001-droid/zmail"
Connected:
"September 15"
The latest GitHub commit is visible and verified.
The new project also successfully detected the same latest commit.
Therefore Vercel is able to see the GitHub repository and commit.
The problem appears to happen after the deployment is created, before the build actually starts.
What I have already tried
I have:
- Waited for the queued deployments.
- Checked the existing project's deployment history.
- Checked the Build and Deployment settings.
- Checked the Git integration settings.
- Checked the team's usage and storage.
- Tried manually creating a deployment from Vercel.
- Created a completely new Vercel project using the same GitHub repository.
- Tested the latest commit on the new project.
The new project also became stuck in "Queued".
I have not made major changes to the source code to try to work around this.
Expected behavior
I would expect:
"GitHub commit" → "Vercel detects commit" → "Deployment created" → "Queued briefly" → "Initializing" → "Build starts" → "Ready"
Previously, deployments completed in approximately 7–13 seconds.
Current behavior
The current behavior is:
"GitHub commit" → "Vercel detects commit" → "Deployment created" → "Queued" → remains queued → no actual build logs appear
The same behavior occurs in both the existing project and a newly created project.
Request
Could someone please check whether there is a problem with the build queue or deployment scheduling for my Hobby team?
In particular, I would like to know whether:
- My team currently has a stuck build occupying the Hobby build slot.
- There is an internal queue problem affecting my deployments.
- There is an account/team-level restriction that is not visible in the Usage dashboard.
- The deployments are waiting for infrastructure capacity.
- There is any issue with the Vercel Git/deployment integration.
- There is anything I need to do to release or reset the queued deployments.
I would also appreciate confirmation on whether this behavior is expected for Hobby deployments or whether the queue appears abnormal.
I can provide deployment IDs, timestamps, screenshots, and additional logs if needed.
Thank you.