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title: Usage & Pricing for Cron Jobs
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# Usage & Pricing for Cron Jobs

Cron Jobs are a legacy feature and will be migrated to

Schedules

in the future. Schedules include timezones, private function and queue targets. You can also create schedules at runtime.

Migrate your Cron Jobs to Schedules

.

> Cron Jobs are available on all plans

Cron jobs invoke [Vercel Functions](/docs/functions). This means the same [usage](/docs/limits) and [pricing](/pricing) limits will apply.

|                | **Number of cron jobs per project** | **Minimum interval** | **Scheduling precision** |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------ |
| **Hobby**      | 100 cron jobs                       | Once per day         | Per-hour (±59 min)       |
| **Pro**        | 100 cron jobs                       | Once per minute      | Per-minute               |
| **Enterprise** | 100 cron jobs                       | Once per minute      | Per-minute               |

### Hobby scheduling limits

> **💡 Note:** Hobby accounts are limited to cron jobs that run **once per day**. Cron
> expressions that would run more frequently will fail during deployment.

Hobby plans have two restrictions on cron jobs:

1. **Daily execution limit**: Cron jobs can only run once per day. Expressions like `0 * * * *` (per-hour) or `*/30 * * * *` (every 30 minutes) will fail deployment with the error:
   *Hobby accounts are limited to daily cron jobs. This cron expression would run more than once per day.*

2. **Timing precision**: Vercel cannot assure a timely cron job invocation. For example, a cron job configured as `0 1 * * *` (every day at 1 am) will trigger anywhere between 1:00 am and 1:59 am.

For cron jobs that run more frequently or with precise timing, **upgrade to our [Pro](/docs/plans/pro-plan) plan**.

## Pricing

Cron jobs are included in **all plans**.

You use a function to invoke a cron job, and therefore [usage](/docs/limits) and [pricing](/pricing) limits for these functions apply to all cron job executions:

- [Functions limits and pricing](/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing)


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