Vercel Staff(edited)
September 4, 2026 - September 11, 2026
Vercel Weekly - September 14, 2026
Vercel
Top Highlights
- Vercel introduced Flat Rate CDN pricing for Pro teams, offering a fixed monthly bill instead of usage-based pricing, addressing one of the top customer feedback areas around CDN costs.
- The platform achieved a 91% reduction in CDN metadata lookup latency through technical optimizations, improving performance for over 80 million routing instructions executed per second across all Vercel requests.
- Vercel Sandbox is now available in all 20 Vercel compute regions, reducing latency for data access and supporting projects with data residency and regional processing requirements.
Community Projects
- NextBlock CMS: 1-Click Deploy, Bring-Your-Own-AI via MCP, and Day-2 Visual Editing
- Eve & oleander - Giving agents safe access to your data
- Personality and high-velocity frontend collaboration
- React boarding pass
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
- Flat Rate CDN is now GA for Pro teams
- GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel Sandbox routing is now 18x faster globally
- Deployment step now 10% faster
- v0 adds one-click integrations for email, auth, search, and databases
- Persistent memory for eve agents
- You can now read and search changelogs from the CLI
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway
- Protect production deployments for free on every plan
- Password Protection is now available per project on Pro
- Vercel Sandbox is now available in all regions
- Tako Search is free on AI Gateway through September 30
- Build with OpenAI Agents API on Vercel
- FastAPI frontends and static files served from the CDN
- GitHub Copilot is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- Vercel Sandbox now provides 64 GB of storage