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title: "Every build machine on Vercel now gets a 5 GB build cache."
description: "Vercel raised the build-cache size limit to 5 GB across every build-machine type, automatically and at no extra charge."
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published_at: "2026-11-13"
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# Every build machine on Vercel now gets a 5 GB build cache.

## Retrieval answer

Vercel raised the build-cache size limit to 5 GB across every build-machine type, automatically and at no extra charge. Larger caches can retain more installed dependencies and framework files between deployments, potentially avoiding cache loss and repeated setup work for projects that exceeded their prior machine-specific ceiling.

## Summary
Vercel raised the build-cache size limit to 5 GB across every build-machine type, automatically and at no extra charge. Larger caches can retain more installed dependencies and framework files between deployments, potentially avoiding cache loss and repeated setup work for projects that exceeded their prior machine-specific ceiling.

## What happened
Vercel has increased the build-cache size limit on all of its build machines to 5 GB. Vercel describes build machines as the compute environments that install dependencies and build a project before deployment. Its announcement says the build cache can save installed dependencies and framework files for reuse on later deployments, which can reduce installation and build time.

Before this change, the threshold depended on the machine tier. Vercel says caches were discarded when they exceeded 1.5 GB on Basic and Standard machines, 3 GB on Enhanced machines, and 4.75 GB on Turbo machines. A discarded cache left the next build without that cached material. The new 5 GB maximum replaces those tier-specific limits with one upper bound across the listed machine types.

The practical size of the increase varies materially by tier. Basic and Standard users gain 3.5 GB over the former threshold, while Enhanced users gain 2 GB. Turbo users gain 0.25 GB because their former 4.75 GB limit was already close to the new cap. The announcement frames the benefit in terms of retaining more dependency and framework files, rather than changing the build process itself or adding a new cache configuration mode.

Vercel says the change applies automatically across all build-machine types. Customers do not need to enable it, change a project setting, or select a different machine in order to receive the new 5 GB limit. Vercel also says there is no additional charge. The page links to Vercel’s build-cache documentation for users who need to understand caching during deployments.

This is a capacity change, not a claim that every deployment will become faster. A project whose cache remained below its former limit would not have had its cache discarded for crossing that limit, so the higher maximum alone may not alter its result. Conversely, a project that crossed the previous threshold could now retain more of its reusable build material between deployments. The announcement does not name particular frameworks, package managers, or project sizes that will benefit.

For a team, the relevant question is whether its prior cache footprint crossed the old ceiling. Projects with large dependency trees or substantial framework-generated files are the clearest candidates to inspect. The platform behavior Vercel describes is straightforward: a cache that exceeded the prior cap could be thrown away; the same cache may now fit, up to 5 GB, and be available to a subsequent build.

## What the archive adds
New Runtime’s earlier coverage recorded Vercel increasing included build disk space to 64 GB across plans and machine types, up from 32 GB on Basic and Standard machines ([an earlier note, November 10, 2026](https://newruntime.com/posts/every-build-now-gets-64-gb-of-disk-0fc850/)). It also covered the Container Registry raising its compressed image-layer limit to 2 GB while retaining a 15 GB total image limit ([October 31, 2026](https://newruntime.com/posts/vercel-container-registry-raises-compressed-image-layer-limit-883ffd/)). This is a new event in that wider sequence of Vercel resource-limit increases, not a restatement.

## Trend signal
This supports a narrow operating signal rather than a tracked New Runtime pattern: hosted deployment platforms can improve repeated build work by removing capacity ceilings without asking teams to reconfigure their projects. The immediate mechanism is cache retention, not a new agent interface, protocol, or model capability. **This does not yet fit a pattern New Runtime tracks.**

## Why it matters
Build caches matter because a cache miss can force a deployment to repeat dependency installation and other work that a warm cache might reuse. Vercel’s higher cap may remove one particular cause of cache loss for projects that exceeded their former limit. Since the change is automatic and free, affected teams can receive that headroom without moving tiers or changing their deployment configuration.

The impact remains conditional. Cache size is one input into build performance, alongside the work a project performs, the files that are cacheable, and whether later deployments can reuse them. Still, the new common ceiling reduces the difference in cache capacity between Vercel machine classes. Teams with Basic, Standard, or Enhanced machines have the largest nominal increase and the strongest reason to check whether installs were repeatedly starting cold.

## Limits and uncertainty
Vercel publishes the new and prior size thresholds, but not cache-hit rates, deployment-time measurements, or the number of projects affected. It does not quantify the typical size of installed dependencies or framework files, so the point at which a project benefits is not established. The 5 GB figure is a maximum capacity, not a promised amount of saved time or a guarantee that a cache will contain every file a build needs. Vercel also does not describe cache-eviction behavior below the stated limit or provide an independent performance comparison.

## Skill to build now
Audit one representative Vercel project’s deployment logs and cache behavior this week. Record whether dependency installation runs from scratch, estimate the size of material the build attempts to reuse, and compare install and total build duration across several deployments after the change. If cache loss had been recurring, treat the new limit as an opportunity to validate an operational improvement rather than assume one. If the cache was already comfortably below the previous threshold, focus optimization work on another measured bottleneck.

## Reader takeaway
Vercel now gives every build-machine type a 5 GB build-cache ceiling, without configuration or added cost. The change is most relevant when a project previously exceeded its tier’s smaller limit and lost its cache. Check real build behavior before assigning a speed gain: the platform expanded capacity, but did not publish measured performance results.

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