Vercel Cron Jobs are now generally available
Vercel Cron Jobs, which enable scheduled task execution for backups, API updates, and notifications, are now generally available across all plans with limits based on account tier. The feature includes security enhancements like environment variable-based secrets and supports Deployment Protection and Instant Rollback.
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Vercel Cron Jobs let you to run scheduled jobs for things like data backups or archives, triggering updates to third-party APIs, sending email and Slack notifications, or any task you need to run on a schedule.
By using a specific syntax called a , you can define the frequency and timing of each task. Cron Jobs work with any frontend framework and can be defined in . You can use them to run your .cron expressionVercel Functionsvercel.json
During the beta, we made Cron Jobs more secure by providing an environment variable with the name . We also added support for and . CRON_SECRETDeployment ProtectionInstant Rollback
Cron Jobs are now . Per account, users on the Hobby plan will have access to 2 Cron Jobs, users on the Pro plan will have access to 40 Cron Jobs, and users on the Enterprise plan will have access to 100 Cron Jobs. included for customers on all plans
Check out our or .documentationdeploy an example with Cron Jobs
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