# Vercel puts $1m on the table for hackers to escape its sandbox > Source: > Published: 2026-08-19 16:54:06+00:00 [sandbox](/tag/sandbox/) After the high-profile sandbox snafus at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Vercel is readying a million-dollar-offer to ensure its testing environments are as robust as possible. The AI cloud company [launched a two-week competition through HackerOne this week](https://vercel.com/blog/one-million-dollar-hacker-challenge-for-vercel-sandbox?ref=thestack.technology), offering a share of $1 million to hackers who can escape its Firecracker microVM to the host or defeat the sandbox firewall. CEO Guillermo Rauch [said](https://x.com/rauchg/status/2089747453004468339?s=20&ref=thestack.technology): “I'm looking forward to bringing transparency to what frontier models can and cannot do in terms of real-world guardrail exploitability. If escapes are discovered, we'll be ready to patch, iterate, and share our findings with the broader community to strengthen global cybersecurity.” The splashy offer will see successful hackers rewarded up to $50,000 for each vulnerability they find that allows a threat actor to read or modify another Vercel tenant’s data. **Are sandboxes the problem?** ## Get the full story: Subscribe for free Join peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events. [Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/) Already a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)