Vercel made production deployment protection free, retiring a $150-per-month add-on
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In a 2026-09-09 changelog entry, Vercel Authentication can now protect all deployments in a project including production at no cost on every plan, where protecting production domains previously required the $150-per-month Advanced Deployment Protection add-on. A companion entry adds per-project Password Protection on Pro at $20 per project per month. For anyone running staging environments or pre-launch sites on Vercel, this removes the single largest line item that pushed small teams toward Enterprise.