Vercel Launches Drives Public Beta to Provide Persistent Storage for Vercel Sandboxes

Vercel has released the public beta of Drives, a persistent storage solution integrated directly with Vercel Sandbox environments. Available to users on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise plans, Drives can be mounted to any directory inside a sandbox. Because these storage drives maintain a lifecycle independent of individual sandbox runs, they facilitate seamless state preservation and data sharing across multiple active instances. Previously, Vercel Sandbox environments operated on an ephemeral model where all data was destroyed upon execution completion. The introduction of Drives allows development teams to persist complex runtime assets, such as AI agent workspaces, localized memory structures, large datasets, and pre-trained machine learning models. Offering storage capacities up to 16 TiB, this feature also enables the caching of dependency trees to dramatically reduce sandbox startup and build times. Interactions with mounted drives utilize standard file system operations, allowing teams to adopt persistent storage without refactoring their existing codebases. Usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go consumption model, with drives configured and attached at sandbox initialization. As this feature is currently in public beta, developers should expect potential adjustments to specifications, pricing structures, and usage quotas ahead of the general availability release.