Vercel says Sandboxes with Drives start up to 2.4x faster

Vercel says Sandboxes with Drives now start up to 2.4x faster, with median creation time falling from 1.7s to 0.7s and p95 creation time from 2.2s to 1.6s.

Existing users need no SDK upgrade or configuration changes, according to the company's post on X dated 2 November 2026.

No independent benchmark accompanies the figures. Guillermo Rauch, Vercel's co-founder, separately says the Sandbox team is meeting its latency and throughput targets while expanding to 19 global regions, and argues that agents need persistent workspaces rather than stateless sandboxes. He links to the Vercel changelog, which reports the same startup figures.