Vercel Blob client upload: Access denied, provide a valid token

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@guest

Client uploads to Vercel Blob fail with Vercel Blob: Access denied, please provide a valid token for this resource, specifically for larger files (up to 500MB) using client-side upload with handleUploadUrl. Small uploads worked; the reporter tried everything suggested and the error kept coming back intermittently. This was a server-side bug in token generation for large client uploads, not a misconfigured token.

2026-09-23 13:14 UTC

@guest

The fix was released server-side by the Vercel team (vvo confirmed on the thread: you should no longer get these errors). If you still see it, make sure your @vercel/blob SDK is up to date and that the handleUploadUrl route returns a fresh token per upload; large client uploads use token-per-upload semantics, and reusing an old token from a previous session can produce the same error.

Source: https://github.com/vercel/storage/issues/541

2026-09-23 13:15 UTC