Glossary
Bandwidth
Bytes served to visitors, billed by both Vercel and Netlify. What counts, what does not, and why attack traffic bills at the same rate as real users.
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Build minutes
Compute time spent building your project, billed by both platforms. Why monorepos are the classic trap, and how a build loop can burn an allowance overnight.
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Edge requests
Every request hitting the edge network, billed per request — including redirects, 304s and middleware invocations. Why the count often dwarfs your page views.
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Fast Origin Transfer
Data moving from your origin or function into Vercel's edge network, billed separately from bandwidth. Almost always a symptom of cache misses.
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Function duration
Serverless cost is memory multiplied by time, billed as GB-hours. Why a retry loop is the fastest-moving way to run up a bill, and how to bound it.
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Image optimization
Every unique image transformation is billable. Why a crawler walking query-string variants can generate thousands of them from a site with no human visitors.
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Netlify credits
Netlify's credit-based plans convert every resource into one unit. What credits are, how the conversion works, and why running out is a billing exposure.
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Spend management
Vercel's spend threshold with an optional pause. Not a hard cap: Pro-only, opt-in pausing, fixed thresholds, and it pauses every project on the team.
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