Vercel Sandbox Now Available in All 20 Regions — With a 73% Regional Price Spread
What shipped
Vercel Sandbox — the ephemeral compute environment aimed squarely at agent workloads — can now run in all 20 Vercel compute regions, up from four. Region selection is available on every plan; Pro and Enterprise teams also get failover regions, tried in order when the primary can't provision. Project-level defaults live in Settings → Sandboxes, or per-creation via Sandbox.create({ region: 'syd1', failoverRegions: ['hkg1','sin1'] }) in the SDK and --region/--failover-regions on the CLI. iad1 stays the default.
What changed
The changelog mentions pricing "varies by region" in one line. The pricing docs show how much. Active CPU runs $0.128/hour in the three US regions (iad1, pdx1, cle1) and $0.0212/GB-hr for provisioned memory. Everywhere else costs more: Sydney $0.180/hr (+41%), Frankfurt $0.184 (+44%), Tokyo and Osaka $0.202 (+58%), and São Paulo tops out at $0.221/hr with $0.0366/GB-hr memory — a 72.7% premium over Washington D.C. for identical compute. Provisioned Memory follows the same curve. Sandbox Creations ($0.60/1M), data transfer ($0.15/GB), and snapshot storage ($0.08/GB-mo) are flat globally, so the spread is purely on runtime. One more receipt: the announcement says "all 20 regions," but the regional pricing table lists 18 — likely two regions inheriting default rates, but builders on those regions should confirm before routing traffic there.
Why a builder cares
With agent sandboxes now provisioned programmatically, region choice is a cost lever someone's code pulls automatically. An agent pipeline that spawns 100 sandbox-hours/day in São Paulo instead of iad1 burns an extra $7.47/day — ~$2,727/year — for the same vCPU-seconds. Conversely, data-residency requirements that previously made Sandbox a non-starter in the EU, APAC, and Brazil are now satisfiable, with failover keeping the pipeline alive when a region can't provision. The 45-minute Hobby session cap and 24-hour Pro cap are unchanged. Pin your regions deliberately, and read the pricing table before letting a default pick for you.
FAQ
How many regions does Vercel Sandbox support now?
As of September 10, 2026, Vercel Sandbox runs in all 20 Vercel compute regions, up from four. The announcement says 20; the regional pricing table currently lists 18 regions.
Does Vercel Sandbox cost more outside the US?
Yes. Active CPU is $0.128/hour in iad1, pdx1, and cle1, but $0.180/hour in Sydney (+41%), $0.202/hour in Tokyo (+58%), and $0.221/hour in São Paulo (+73%). Memory scales the same way; creations, transfer, and snapshots are flat globally.
Do all Vercel plans get Sandbox region selection and failover?
Region selection is available on every plan, including Hobby. Failover regions require Pro or Enterprise. iad1 remains the default region for new sandboxes.