# Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage

Publisher-attributed story with a reviewed brief or permitted publisher paragraph. The original publisher is responsible for the linked reporting.

- Publisher: Vercel
- Author credit: Jay Gengelbach; Pranav Kanchi
- Category: Cloud
- Original publication time: 2026-09-16T18:00:00Z
- Original update time: 2026-09-16T18:00:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T20:28:47Z
- Original source: https://vercel.com/changelog/hobby-projects-now-retain-fewer-deployments-to-free-up-storage
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-c4462e1a233c230e6e06

## The brief

Vercel's September 16 update reduces older deployment retention on Hobby projects, whose teams have 10 GB of deployment storage. Each project protects its three latest production deployments and three latest deployments overall; current production, aliases and active branches retain protections. If a team exceeds the limit, deployments outside those exceptions can be deleted immediately instead of waiting 30 days.

AI-assisted NexusTechWire summary, checked against the linked source on 2026-10-02T02:56:21Z. Not independent reporting.

Read the full original: [Vercel](https://vercel.com/changelog/hobby-projects-now-retain-fewer-deployments-to-free-up-storage)

This record does not reproduce the complete article or represent independent confirmation of every source claim.