# Is v0 HIPAA Compliant? The Answer Splits in Two - Tool: Compliance - Last updated: August 2026 ## TL;DR The answer splits in two. Vercel signs a HIPAA BAA covering its hosting infrastructure, listed in its Pro plan documentation as a paid add-on at $350 per month, but Vercel's API Terms separately say you agree not to process protected health information through the v0 API or AI Solution. Hosting a PHI app on Vercel is one question; generating it in v0 on real patient data is answered no. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I just pay the $350 and keep using v0 the way I have been? No. The add-on and the restriction live in two different documents. The Pro plan add-on gets you a BAA covering Vercel's hosting infrastructure. The API Terms separately say you agree not to process Protected Health Information through the v0 API or AI Solution, and paying for the first does not edit the sentence in the second. The practical version: buy the add-on for your deployed app, and keep real patient data out of the v0 chat. ### So does the BAA cover v0, or only hosting? Vercel's own guide says the HIPAA BAA covers its entire global infrastructure, which is about where your application runs. The API Terms then place a specific restriction on what you may put through v0 itself. That is why this page gives a split answer rather than a single yes or no: hosting the finished application and generating it on real data are two separate questions with two different answers. ### We already pasted patient data into v0 months ago. What do we do now? Technically, you cannot recall it. What you can do this week: stop the practice, write down the date range and what kinds of records went through, open your v0 account settings and record the current Model Training state with a screenshot, and take that written record to your own counsel. Whether it is a reportable event is a legal determination, and not one we make. ### Would an Enterprise plan let us use v0 with real patient data? Not on the strength of anything we could find. We read the v0 Enterprise Addendum in full (Last Updated: August 20, 2025), and the terms "Protected Health Information", "PHI", "HIPAA" and "160.103" do not appear anywhere in it, so nothing in that document removes the API Terms restriction. If a Vercel salesperson tells you otherwise, ask for it in writing and have your counsel read it against the API Terms. ### Is v0 HIPAA certified? Nothing is. There is no government HIPAA certification for any product, so any vendor or agency describing itself as "HIPAA certified" is describing something that does not exist. What does exist is a signed business associate agreement with each vendor that touches PHI, plus the administrative, physical and technical safeguards you run on your side. ### Do we need Vercel Secure Compute on top of the BAA? Vercel's compliance documentation says customers subject to HIPAA may enable Vercel Secure Compute for additional layers of protection, and describes it as available on Enterprise plans. It is not included in the $350/month Pro add-on. Whether you need it depends on your own risk decisions and your network requirements. It is an additional layer, not the thing that makes the BAA valid. ### Can we use v0 at all if we are building something for healthcare? The restriction in the terms is about the data, not about the tool. The pattern that fits it is to design and generate in v0 using synthetic records shaped like your real ones, and keep actual patient data in the deployed application running on infrastructure covered by the BAA. That split is most of what we implement on these projects, and the hardest part is not the code — it is the habit of never pasting the real spreadsheet in to make a demo look right. --- Source: https://www.rapidevelopers.com/compliance/is-v0-hipaa-compliant © RapidDev — https://www.rapidevelopers.com/compliance/is-v0-hipaa-compliant