Vercel Sandboxes now automatically save and restore filesystem state between sessions. Persistence is on by default, meaning no snapshots to manage or state to track manually.

Each sandbox has a durable, customizable name that acts as a unique reference in your project. You can create, retrieve, or resume a sandbox by name. Vercel spins sessions up and down automatically, without interrupting your workflow.

Link to heading Create a persistent sandbox

When you call Sandbox.create() , persistence is enabled by default:

import { Sandbox } from "@vercel/sandbox" ;

// Filesystem is snapshotted automatically

const sandbox = await Sandbox . create ( { name : "my-sandbox" } ) ;

await sandbox . runCommand ( "npm" , [ "install" ] ) ;

await sandbox . stop ( ) ;

Create a sandbox with persistence on by default

Each automatic snapshot consumes snapshot storage , which is billed separately from compute.…