
Vercel AI Gateway
Hosted gateway from Vercel that reaches hundreds of models through one key and one bill, with fallbacks, budgets and usage tracking.
Works with AI agents:llms.txtMCPCLIBuilt into v0Where it fits
Who uses it
No maker's live product on record yet, and 15 open-source projects that declare it in their code.
We haven't found a maker's live product that uses Vercel AI Gateway yet — only the open-source projects below, which declare it in their code.
Open source: a project that declares Vercel AI Gateway as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.
Reliability and open issues
- minor Build failures and 500 errors for functions using Edge runtime Sep 2026
- minor Deployment stuck in initializing state Sep 2026
- major Elevated Errors Triggering Deployments Sep 2026
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Is Vercel AI Gateway free?
Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at Pay per token, no markup. source ↗
Is Vercel AI Gateway open source or self-hostable?
Not open source, and hosted only.
Can AI coding agents work with Vercel AI Gateway?
It serves an llms.txt docs index; it has an official MCP server (com.vercel/vercel-mcp); it has an official CLI (vercel); v0 set it up natively.
Who uses Vercel AI Gateway?
No maker's live product we track yet; 15 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗