Vercel Cron

Cron for Vercel functions

Free tier + paidAutomation & background jobsvercel.com

What it is

Declare schedules in vercel.json and Vercel invokes the matching route on time. No extra service, queue or dashboard: the cron entry just calls a normal function, so it inherits that function's runtime, timeout and billing.

Why it earns a slot

Lowest-friction scheduler if you already deploy to Vercel: three lines of JSON plus a route handler. Good for nightly digests, cache warming, cleanup jobs and kicking off a real queue.

Know before you commit

Hobby is capped at once per day with up to 59 minutes of drift, and more frequent expressions fail at deploy time. Crons only fire; they do not queue, fan out or retry, so real work still needs a job runner.

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Pricing snapshot

Included on all plans. Hobby free: 100 cron jobs per project, once-per-day maximum, plus or minus 59 minutes of drift. Pro (from $20/user/mo): 100 jobs, per-minute schedules and precision. Function usage billed separately.

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Evaluate Vercel Cron (https://vercel.com/docs/cron-jobs) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Cron for Vercel functions. Declare schedules in vercel.json and Vercel invokes the matching route on time. No extra service, queue or dashboard: the cron entry just calls a normal function, so it inherits that function's runtime, timeout and billing.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Lowest-friction scheduler if you already deploy to Vercel: three lines of JSON plus a route handler. Good for nightly digests, cache warming, cleanup jobs and kicking off a real queue.
Watch out for: Hobby is capped at once per day with up to 59 minutes of drift, and more frequent expressions fail at deploy time. Crons only fire; they do not queue, fan out or retry, so real work still needs a job runner.
Pricing: Included on all plans. Hobby free: 100 cron jobs per project, once-per-day maximum, plus or minus 59 minutes of drift. Pro (from $20/user/mo): 100 jobs, per-minute schedules and precision. Function usage billed separately.
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