[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live) [Help](/c/help/9) # Vercel free-tier email explanation 64 views · 0 likes · 2 posts Asadullahsamo (@asadullahsamo) · 2024-08-20  I received the following email from Vercel. Does this indicate that there will be costs associated with deploying additional projects that include images? Amy Egan (@amyegan) · 2024-08-20 Hi @asadullahsamo. Congrats on the growth of your website! The email indicates that your Hobby team used 100% of the [included usage](https://vercel.com/docs/limits/overview#included-usage) for [Image Optimization](https://vercel.com/docs/image-optimization#image-optimization-with-vercel). There is no additional cost if you choose not to [upgrade your team from Hobby to Pro](https://vercel.com/docs/accounts/plans/pro#upgrading-to-pro). There would be a monthly cost if you do upgrade to paid plan, of course. Note that **your projects will not be paused** because the Image Optimization limit was reached. But additional **source images will throw an error** when optimizing. You can avoid the error by disabling optimization for some or all of your images. More details on that option here: https://vercel.com/docs/image-optimization/managing-image-optimization-costs#minimizing-image-optimization-costs
