Edge Middleware and Edge Functions are now powered by Vercel Functions
By Steven Van ·
Edge Middleware and Edge Functions move onto Vercel Functions' shared infrastructure, with Fluid compute and unified pricing.
Vercel's Edge Middleware and Edge Functions now run on the same underlying infrastructure as the rest of Vercel Functions. Routing Middleware executes before the cache as a full Vercel Function with Fluid compute; Edge Functions run after the cache using the Edge runtime.
- Fluid compute-ready: lower cold starts and cost across both
- Multi-runtime: Node.js and Edge runtimes both supported
- Framework-driven: functions deploy automatically from supported framework code
- Consistent pricing: one Vercel Functions pricing model based on Active CPU time
Vercel Routing Middleware, the new name for what was Edge Middleware, is now generally available to all users. The announcement is now marked historical: Vercel notes that Edge Functions are deprecated for new projects, and recommends Vercel Functions with the Node.js runtime and Fluid compute, with Routing Middleware for request-time routing before a response completes.