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v0 pricing, plans and what credits buy

Vercel’s v0 free, Plus and Business plans read on 27 September 2026, what a credit buys, what burns them fastest, and what a real app costs to build and host.

By the Deacon team

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v0 pricing starts with a free plan, then Plus at $30 a user a month, then Business at $100 a user a month, with Enterprise priced by an account executive. v0 is Vercel’s AI app builder, and every plan spends a monthly allowance of credits, which meter the AI model that plans, builds and edits your app. We read every figure on 27 September 2026, on v0’s pricing page and pricing docs and on Vercel’s own pricing page.

Deacon is ours. It’s an AI customer support agent for founders who answer support themselves. It answers your v0 app’s visitors in seconds from your own docs, and the same script shows you which sources bring sign-ups. It spends none of your v0 credits, and there’s a free plan that needs no card.

v0 pricing plans

The plans differ in credits, in what a team can share, and in a handful of controls.

Free

A month
$0
Credits a month
$5
Daily message cap
7 messages
What it adds
Deploy to Vercel, Design Mode, sync with GitHub

Plus

A month
$30 a user
Credits a month
$30 a user, plus $2 a day on login
Daily message cap
None, credit-based
What it adds
Access to every model, a shared credit pool, centralised billing, shared chats

Business

Credits a month
$30 a user, plus $2 a day on login
Daily message cap
None, credit-based
What it adds
Everything in Plus, plus training opt-out by default

Enterprise

A month
Custom
Credits a month
Custom
Daily message cap
None
What it adds
SAML SSO, priority access, advanced usage analytics

v0 bills every paid plan by the month, with no yearly discount published. Its docs also list a fifth plan, Premium at $20 a month with $20 of monthly credit, but it’s being sunset and isn’t offered to new users, so it no longer appears on the pricing page’s own cards.

If you’re still choosing a builder, the best vibe coding tools ranks nine of them and Lovable vs v0 sets two side by side. Lovable pricing, Bolt.new pricing and Replit pricing cover what the others charge.

What a v0 credit buys

A v0 credit buys tokens, the units v0 counts for your prompt and its reply. v0’s docs say it also counts your chat history, source files and Vercel-specific knowledge as input, so a longer-running project can cost more per message even when you type the same thing. How many tokens a credit buys depends on the model you pick, from $0.20 per million input tokens on v0 Mini to $10 on v0 Max Fast, so a pricier model burns through your balance faster. v0 shows each model’s rate when you hover it in the model selector. On the Free plan, you also stop at 7 messages a day, however much of the $5 is left.

Credits work like a prepaid balance. Every generation draws it down, and once it hits zero, generation pauses until your next reset or a top-up. On a paid plan, unused monthly credits roll over to your next billing cycle, but expire after 65 days. On Plus, Business and Enterprise, credits you buy on top land in a Shared Credit Pool. The whole team draws from it once each member’s own monthly credit is gone, and it stays usable for a year after you buy it.

What hosting a v0 app on Vercel costs

Hosting is a separate bill from Vercel, not part of your v0 credits. v0’s FAQ says that although you sign in with your Vercel account, v0 “is not included in your Vercel Hobby, Pro, or Enterprise subscription”. v0 deploys your app straight to Vercel, with a stable production URL on a vercel.app address or a custom domain of your own.

Vercel’s Hobby plan is free, with 100GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month. Pro is $20 a month, which includes $20 of usage credit and bills usage past it, with function invocations starting at $0.60 a million. Vercel’s fair use guidelines limit Hobby to non-commercial personal use, so an app that sells something or takes payments needs Pro.

What a real v0 app costs

These are three stages in the life of one app, from a first prototype to a team building together, using v0’s own credit and message figures alongside Vercel’s own hosting prices.

A first prototype

What’s happening
A handful of chats trying an idea, under 7 messages a day and $5 of credit
v0 plan
Free
Hosting
Vercel Hobby
A month
$0

Building for real

What’s happening
Heavier prompts and a growing project burn through $5 fast, with no daily cap left to hit
v0 plan
Plus
Hosting
Vercel Hobby
A month
$30

A co-founder joins in

What’s happening
Two of you building and sharing chats, each with your own credit and one shared pool for the rest. The app is launched and selling, which Vercel’s Hobby plan doesn’t allow
v0 plan
Plus, two seats
Hosting
Vercel Pro
A month
$80

The last row is $60 for two Plus seats plus $20 for Vercel Pro, with one of you deploying. Vercel Pro includes one developer seat, so if you both deploy, the second seat takes it to $100 a month. A pricier model in the picker, or a long-running project with a lot of context, can burn through a seat’s credit before the month is out.

What a launched v0 app still needs

v0’s job ends at the deploy. Once the app is live on Vercel, v0’s docs point you to Vercel’s Web Analytics to count your traffic, but no v0 plan answers the people who land on the app.

Deacon is an AI chatbot for your website that sits beside your v0 app rather than inside it. It answers your visitors in seconds from your own docs, at any hour and in the language they write in, and nobody has to sign in first. When your docs don’t cover a question, it says it doesn’t know instead of guessing and asks for the visitor’s email. You get an email when they leave one or ask for a person, and your reply from Deacon’s dashboard appears in their chat while it’s open. Its replies count against its own allowance, so they spend none of your v0 credits.

Web Analytics counts who came, and Deacon also hears what they asked. Every conversation is saved and searchable by what visitors asked. Topics group the questions, count the people asking and label most of them, as a feature ask, a bug report or a how-to, so you know what to fix and what to build next. Each question your docs didn’t cover gets an Answer this button, and every answer you write becomes part of what Deacon knows, so it needs you less over time.

The same script counts your visitors, where they came from, your goals and your funnels, with ranges up to all time, so there’s no second analytics tool to add to your Next.js app.

It goes into your app’s root layout as one script, so it loads on every page. Deacon and v0 has the exact steps for a v0 project.

Every feature is on every Deacon plan. Free is 50 answers a month and 1 seat, with no card and no end date. Starter is $50 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 answers a month and 3 seats. Growth is $150 a month, or $120 a month billed yearly, for 4,000 answers a month and 10 seats. Nothing is billed past a plan’s answers, no plan upgrades itself, and there’s no “powered by” line to pay to remove.

If you built with something else, Deacon and Lovable and Deacon and Bolt cover those builders, how to add a chatbot to your website covers any other site, and what to do after you launch covers the rest of the first few weeks.

Questions about v0 pricing

Is v0 free?

Yes. The Free plan costs nothing and gives you $5 of credit a month, up to 7 messages a day, and lets you deploy to Vercel, use Design Mode and sync with GitHub.

How much does v0 cost a month?

Free is $0. Plus is $30 a user a month, Business is $100 a user a month, and Enterprise is priced by an account executive. There’s no yearly discount published.

Do v0 credits roll over?

On a paid plan, unused monthly credits roll over to your next billing cycle, but expire after 65 days. Credits you buy separately last a year after purchase, though you need an active paid plan to spend them.

Can I buy more v0 credits?

Yes, on Plus and Business, at any time. Enterprise accounts arrange extra credit through their account executive instead.

What happened to v0’s Premium plan?

It’s being sunset. v0’s own docs say Premium, at $20 a month for $20 of credit, is no longer offered to new users, which is why it’s missing from the current pricing page.

Does v0 include hosting?

Not as part of its own price. v0 deploys your app to Vercel, and Vercel bills hosting separately on its own Hobby (free, for non-commercial personal use only) or Pro ($20 a month) plans.

Who makes v0?

Vercel. v0 calls itself “v0 by Vercel” on its own pricing page.

Does Deacon use my v0 credits?

No. Deacon counts only its own answers, and a page view never uses one. Its free plan has 50 answers a month with no card, and it runs on your vercel.app address or your own domain either way.

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Add your help pages, ask it the question you know your docs cannot answer, and watch it say so.

The free plan covers 50 answers a month on one seat, and the paid plans are on the pricing page.

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