Vercel Sandbox Drives Start 2.4x Faster
Vercel reduced Drive-mounted Sandbox creation from 1.7s to 0.7s at the median and from 2.2s to 1.6s at p95. The improvement applies automatically without SDK or configuration changes, while pricing stays unchanged.
Faster Drive attachment makes persistent workspaces more practical for short-lived agent runs.
- –Median startup latency falls by roughly 59%, reducing overhead in iterative workflows
- –The p95 improvement cuts tail latency by about 27%, making execution more predictable
- –Persistent Drives let agents reuse workspaces, dependencies, datasets, and models across sandboxes
- –Existing users receive the performance gain automatically, with no migration work
- –The results are Vercel-reported, so independent comparisons with competing sandbox platforms remain open
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2026-11-02
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