# Lower pricing with Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute By Steven Van · 2025-06-25 Fluid compute now bills Active CPU time separately from memory, cutting example costs from $0.318 to about $0.149 per hour. Vercel Functions on [Vercel]()'s Fluid compute now use Active CPU pricing, charging for CPU only while a function is actively computing rather than for the whole time it stays in memory. That removes cost during idle periods, which matters for workloads like LLM inference or long-running AI agents that spend much of their time waiting on external responses. The model is built on three metrics: **Active CPU** time (priced at $0.128 per hour), **Provisioned Memory** ($0.0106 per GB-hour), and per-call invocations. As an example, a Standard machine size running at 100% active CPU now costs about **$0.149 per hour**, versus $0.31842 per hour under the previous model. Active CPU pricing is enabled by default for Hobby, Pro, and new Enterprise teams; existing Enterprise customers' availability depends on their current plan. The change takes effect after a redeploy. Read the [full announcement]() for more on how Fluid compute's Active CPU pricing works. [![]()]() ![Vercel]() Vercel The platform for frontend developers — deploy, preview, and scale web apps and AI agents with zero config. [View Vercel →]() [Original source]() [Read Lower pricing with Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/vercel-lower-pricing-with-active-cpu-pricing-for-fluid-compute