Vercel's Speed Insights now offers 10,000 events/month free across unlimited projects, replacing the single-project Hobby limit with RUM data collection at zero cost.
Summary
Developers can baseline real user performance before committing to paid monitoring. Removes the friction of plan-locked instrumentation—you keep free tier access across projects and only pay for historical diagnostics when needed.
Why it matters
Developers can baseline real user performance before committing to paid monitoring. Removes the friction of plan-locked instrumentation—you keep free tier access across projects and only pay for historical diagnostics when needed.
Implementation verdict
Replaces the previous single-project free tier and removes the pay-wall for multi-project monitoring. Requires one npm install and dashboard setup. Worth trying now if you're already on Vercel; no risk in adding RUM data to existing deployments.
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