Vercel Blob Storage Plugin client upload only files under 4,5 mb possible to upload

[christianfullstack]

Link to reproduction

No response

Payload Version

v3.0.0-beta.73

Node Version

20.9.0

Next.js Version

15.0.0-canary.83

Describe the Bug

at the moment the @payloadcms/storage-vercel-blob allows only uploads smaller than 4,5mb.

Could we switch to client upload to allow bigger filesizes ? I think we need the client upload.
https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-blob/client-upload#client-uploads-with-vercel-blob

because this limit is not useful in the case of using vercel blob storage.
upload: { limits: { fileSize: 30000000, }, },

Thank you

Reproduction Steps

use @payloadcms/storage-vercel-blob and try to upload a file bigger than 5 mb.

Adapters and Plugins

storage-vercel-blob

[jmikrut]

Hey @christianfullstack — are you deploying on Vercel? I know the 4.5mb thing is a Vercel limitation, but I'd like to confirm.

We do indeed have plans to switch to client-side uploads so I have added this to our Roadmap!

[christianfullstack]

Hey @jmikrut,
yes i deploy to vercel and i have setup the blob storage in the database tab of my site.

i was wondering why the config Object has the prop access: 'public'.

vercelBlobStorage({ access: 'public', collections: { [Media.slug]: true, }, token: process.env.BLOB_READ_WRITE_TOKEN || '', }),

Thank you

[robinscholz]

@jmikrut roughly how far out is this feature? We are close to deploying a larger project and this issue would prevent us from hosting it on Vercel sadly.

[nico-k3]

Yea, we have had some problems because of that too. Deployed 3 projects with 3.0 on Vercel so far with 2 more in active development and this is the biggest complaint from the clients. It is hard to communicate to them, that they have to downsize their images before uploading them to their CMS.

We're using S3 tho, so would be really nice if this feature would be available there too.

[drewlonious]

is there an update on this? using s3/supabase, mono repo deployed to vercel. seems to defeat the purpose of the monorepo

[hansfuchs]

I'm also using Vercel + Supabase, wish I had known about this limitation before building the whole CMS for a customer. Is there still no update in regards to this, @jmikrut ?

[ydemetriades]

Do we have any updates on this?

[noahwaldner]

I was just looking at this today and was able to get a direct upload to S3 working. The downside is that it skips all of payloads image processing such as cropping or splitting up the image into different resolutions.

One option would be to process the images after the initial upload with a kind of worker. This would need to happen off Vercel, as else the 4.5MB Limit would also kick in there.

@jmikrut Did you decide on how to handle this?

I'm happy to contribute an implementation for this!

[mwdossantos]

Hey @noahwaldner, how did you get the direct upload working?

[giorgiPapava]

Any updates on this? I have same problem on s3 bucket deployed with vercel

[altarapid]

Are there any updates?

[jeromewtf]

Would love to hear updates :)