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Vercel CLI adds Spend Management

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In short

Teams can now view their current spend and active budget with `vercel budgets`, pause projects with `vercel budgets set --amount 100% --pause`, and manage budget alerts with `vercel budgets alerts`. This feature is available to Pro teams and Enterprise teams on the Flexible Commitment plan at no additional cost.

Key points

  • Spend Management is available at no additional cost to Pro teams and Enterprise teams on…: Spend Management is available at no additional cost to Pro teams and Enterprise teams on the Flexible Commitment plan.
  • The feature is accessible to teams with the Owner or Billing role.: The feature is accessible to teams with the Owner or Billing role.

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You can now view and manage your team's Spend Management budget from the Vercel CLI. Run vercel budgets

and you, or the scripts and agents you run, get back your current spend and the active budget.

$ vercel budgets> No budget set on team my-team. Current spend is $63.33. Create one with `vercel --scope my-team budgets set --amount <dollars>`.

$ vercel budgets set --amount 200 --pause> Pause all projects on team my-team at 100% ($200). Production deployments become unavailable.> Success! Budget updated on team my-team. scope amount spent used status pause webhook team $200 $63.33 32% active yes —

$ vercel budgets scope amount spent used status pause webhook team $200 $63.33 32% active yes —

$ vercel budgets remove --yes> Success! Removed the $200 budget on team my-team.

Copy link to headingView, set, and remove a budget

This is the same On-Demand Budget shown in your team's billing settings. Setting a budget does not stop usage on its own. The --pause

flag pauses production deployments of all projects when spend reaches 100%.

Copy link to headingList budget alert history

You can now see your budget alert history. Run vercel budgets alerts

for the full log, filtered with --since

, --until

, --limit

, and --json

. A bare vercel budgets

prints the three most recent alerts.

$ vercel budgets alerts> 3 budget alerts on team my-team date budget threshold spent budget amount actions configured 2026-09-21 14:33 UTC team 50% $313.33 $600 notify 2026-09-19 23:12 UTC team 100% $313.33 $250 notify, pause 2026-09-19 02:35 UTC team 75% $230.00 $300 notify

Managing budgets requires the Owner or Billing role. Spend Management is available at no additional cost to Pro teams and to Enterprise teams on the Flexible Commitment plan.

Full reference now available in the vercel budgets

CLI reference. Read more about Spend Management.

Original source: vercel.com

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