# Custom Environments are now available on Vercel

**Published:** December 11, 2024 | **Authors:** Mariano Cocirio, Trek Glowacki, Cody Brouwers, Mitch Vostrez, Jeff See, Paulo Guarnier De Mitri, Amy Burns, Sean Massa, Henry Heffernan

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[Custom Environments](https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/custom-environments) are now available on Vercel. With this feature, you can define an additional pre-production environment, such as staging or QA, directly within the Vercel dashboard, without relying on external workarounds or multiple projects.

This functionality allows you to reshape your release workflow by separating it from code management. Environments can now operate independently of branches, offering greater flexibility for specific organizational workflows, targeted deployments, and managing multiple development environments across teams.

Customers on the Pro plan have the ability to configure one Custom Environment and customers on the Enterprise plan can configure up to 12 from the dashboard.

[Learn more about Custom Environments](https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/custom-environments).

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