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Fluid compute is Vercel’s next-generation compute model designed to handle modern workloads with real-time scaling, cost efficiency, and minimal overhead.
Mariano Cocirio
March 3, 2025

Fluid compute is Vercel’s next-generation compute model designed to handle modern workloads with real-time scaling, cost efficiency, and minimal overhead. Traditional serverless architectures optimize for fast execution, but struggle with requests that spend significant time waiting on external models or APIs, leading to wasted compute.
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