Vercel Launches Persistent Drives for Sandbox in Public Beta
Vercel has introduced persistent storage Drives for Sandbox environments, allowing data to persist across different sandbox instances. The feature supports up to four mounts per sandbox with storage capacities configurable up to 16 TiB.
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Vercel Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise users utilizing Vercel Sandbox environments.
This feature significantly reduces setup time for AI agents and complex development environments by eliminating the need to re-download or re-process large datasets and dependency trees for every new sandbox run.
Full Fact Overview
Vercel has released Drives for Sandbox into public beta, providing persistent, mountable storage volumes for development environments. Unlike standard ephemeral sandbox storage, Drives allow developers to maintain state across sandbox lifecycles, enabling the reuse of datasets, dependency trees, and agent workspaces. The system supports one read-write mount per Drive, with the ability for multiple sandboxes to concurrently mount read-only, point-in-time snapshots. Storage limits are set at 1 TiB by default (1 GiB on Hobby) and are configurable up to 16 TiB. Pricing is usage-based, calculated on storage, read, and write operations, with specific regional rates (e.g., $0.05/GB-month for storage in iad1).