# Vercel — Compute that takes any shape

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-01T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/fluid-compute-takes-any-shape
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20662-compute-that-takes-any-shape
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway
- Pricing: Active CPU pricing, you pay for CPU only while your code is working, not while it waits on a database or a model.

Vercel announced Fluid, a unified compute layer that runs builds, sandboxes, and functions on a single system. Fluid assembles a machine for each workload, uses Hive for isolated VM provisioning, and supports custom images via Vercel Container Registry. Vercel Drives provide portable storage that outlives the compute, currently in private beta for sandboxes.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/fluid-compute-takes-any-shape:

> Fluid compute now runs over 15 million builds a day, 25 million sandboxes a week, and a trillion requests a month.

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