Hotspot limits · United States

Verizon hotspot limits

Checked 1 November 2026 against Verizon’s own pages. Plans change: your plan’s terms win.

Verizon gives most phone plans a monthly amount of premium Mobile Hotspot data. After it, hotspot keeps working at a reduced speed for the rest of the month; how slow depends on the plan and on whether you’re on 5G Ultra Wideband.

Hotspot data
30 GB on Unlimited Plus, 200 GB on Unlimited Ultimate, 10 GB on Simplicity; buy it on Unlimited Welcome.
After it
Up to 3 Mbps on 5G Ultra Wideband and 600 kbps on 5G/4G LTE (Plus, Welcome), 1 Mbps (Simplicity), up to 6 Mbps (Ultimate).
Video
Phone video varies by plan and settings: Verizon lists 720p on Simplicity and 480p by default on 5G/4G LTE for Plus and Ultimate.
Check
The My Verizon app or verizon.com.

Hotspot allowance

From Verizon’s important plan information:

  • Unlimited Plus: 30 GB a month of 5G Ultra Wideband, 5G or 4G LTE hotspot data.
  • Unlimited Ultimate: 200 GB a month.
  • Simplicity: 10 GB a month.
  • Unlimited Welcome: no hotspot unless you buy the 100 GB Mobile Hotspot perk.

Verizon’s plan terms say the plans’ unlimited data is for use on the smartphone itself; it doesn’t extend to hotspot use.

Speed after the allowance

  • Unlimited Plus and Welcome (with the perk): up to 3 Mbps on 5G Ultra Wideband and 600 kbps on 5G or 4G LTE, for the rest of the billing cycle.
  • Simplicity: up to 1 Mbps for the rest of the billing month.
  • Unlimited Ultimate: up to 6 Mbps, per the plan information; an older hotspot FAQ says 4 Mbps.
  • On Unlimited Welcome, phone and hotspot data on 5G or 4G LTE can also be slower than other traffic when the network is congested.

Plans without hotspot

  • Unlimited Welcome has no hotspot unless the 100 GB perk is added.
  • Tablets, watches and hotspot devices have plans of their own, with their own limits.

Video

  • For phone video, Verizon lists 480p as the default on 5G/4G LTE for Unlimited Plus and Ultimate, with higher settings available. Check your plan terms for hotspot video.
  • Verizon lists 480p SD phone video on Unlimited Welcome and 720p HD on Simplicity.

Check what’s left

  1. Open the My Verizon app, or sign in at verizon.com.

  2. Look up your plan’s Mobile Hotspot allowance and this month’s usage there; Verizon’s hotspot FAQ points to My Verizon for both.

For more, Verizon offers a Data Boost or, on some plans, the 100 GB Mobile Hotspot perk.

What Kilobat can tell you

If every speed test and big download on your hotspot stops near the same speed, such as the 600 kbps, 1 Mbps, 3 Mbps or 6 Mbps Verizon publishes, on different occasions while the ping stays normal, Health says it looks like Verizon’s hotspot cap. A weak signal or a busy cell wanders instead, and Kilobat says nothing then. It also notices video held near 1.5 Mbps while other downloads run faster. It can’t see your allowance or tell a hotspot cap from a plan that caps everything: check on the phone too.

It’s free in Health on any phone hotspot, with the measurements behind it in Kilobat Pro, and in the terminal with kilobat hotspot. More in the docs and saving hotspot data.

Sources

Checked against Verizon’s own plan pages, terms and help articles on 1 November 2026. Allowances and speeds differ by plan and change often; what your own plan says wins.

See what your hotspot is really doing

Kilobat is a Mac menu-bar app that shows which apps use your hotspot’s data, holds back updaters on metered networks, and says when downloads keep stopping at the same speed.

Download for Mac ↓
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat