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Vercel folded builds, sandboxes and functions onto one compute layer running 25 million sandboxes a week
Vercel's September 1 post describes Fluid absorbing every workload shape onto a single primitive rather than one primitive per job, currently carrying over 15 million builds a day, 25 million sandboxes a week and a trillion requests a month. The underlying piece is Hive, which provisions a full VM in milliseconds with filesystem state included, giving isolation stronger than an isolate or container without container startup cost. Billing is Active CPU, so you pay for CPU only while code runs, not while it waits on a database or a model call, which is the pricing shape that makes long-idle agent workloads affordable.
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