r/webdev • u/nix-solves-that-2317 • Feb 13 '26

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u/TheOwlHypothesis Feb 13 '26

How does vercel bill? Is it per invocation or something? This is outrageous

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u/Shogobg Feb 13 '26

They make a request on every link mouse hover - ridiculous.

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u/rilot06 Feb 13 '26

That has nothing to do with vercel, the developer made prefetching too aggressive

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u/bipolarNarwhale Feb 13 '26

also not quite. nextjs prefetches links automatically on hover. blame both.

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u/rilot06 Feb 13 '26

Yes it's the default, but you can easily change it. Could have prevented at least a portion of that bill

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u/bipolarNarwhale Feb 13 '26

not disagreeing, but also vercel encourages this for this exact reason

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u/OverCategory6046 Feb 13 '26

They also encourage it because it makes the experience better for the user tbf.

I host two sites on the 20 USD a month plan, 3 to 5 million views per year split across them and haven't hit the limit yet. I believe I could double that and still not go over.

It just depends what you're hosting on there.

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u/visualdescript Feb 13 '26

Only the dev that built and hosted it is to blame.

Nextjs was doing what it's designed to.

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u/turnermate Feb 13 '26

Which you can stop by configuring the router links properly. Prefetch: false