How to Fix Vercel Function Timeouts with Background Jobs
Fix Vercel function timeouts by moving long-running work to Inngest. Durable background jobs with automatic retries and step-level observability, no infra needed.
Hitting a **Vercel function timeout** usually means your Next.js API route or serverless function exceeded Vercel's max duration (often 10–60 seconds). You do not need a second deploy target or a separate worker fleet to fix it. **[Inngest](/docs/getting-started/nextjs-quick-start?ref=blog-long-running-functions-vercel) is the solution for Vercel background jobs and long running functions**: keep your code on Vercel, break work into durable steps, and run jobs for minutes, hours, or days without a Next.js API timeout killing the request.
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