Hosted routers and marketplaces - verified October 18, 2026

Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway is listed under hosted routers and marketplaces. Its first listed fee, in its own words: no markup, no platform fee, tokens (provider list price). It states OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible requests. Routing stated: fallbacks. Read from the vendor's own pages on October 18, 2026.

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Status

Status, as we read it

GA (available on all plans)inferred

Our reading: The page implies this status without labelling it.

“Every Vercel team account gets access to both a free tier and a paid tier for AI Gateway Credits.”

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How Vercel AI Gateway charges

Every fee line Vercel AI Gateway states, in its own words and units, with the quote. Nothing is converted.

How each of 1 LLM gateways charges: 9 fee lines in each vendor's own words, not converted or ranked
Product	Fee, in the vendor's words	Applies to	Quote and source
Vercel AI Gateway	no markup, no platform fee	tokens (provider list price)	“AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens.” vercel.com
	$5/month included	free-tier monthly credit	“$5/month included” vercel.com
	$0.10 per 1,000 successful requests	team-wide provider allowlist add-on (Pro and Enterprise)	“$0.10 per 1,000 successful requests” vercel.com
	$0.10 per 1,000 requests	team-wide zero data retention add-on (Pro and Enterprise)	“$0.10 per 1,000 requests” vercel.com
	$0.075 / 1,000 writes	Custom Reporting writes	“$0.075 / 1,000 tag/user ID/quota entity ID writes” vercel.com
	$5 / 1,000 queries	Custom Reporting queries	“$5 / 1,000 queries to the reporting endpoint” vercel.com
	$0.05 per 1,000 traces	Trace Drains (Pro and Enterprise)	“$0.05 per 1,000 traces” vercel.com
	$0.50 per 1 GB	trace egress	“$0.50 per 1 GB” vercel.com
	payment processing fees may apply	credit purchases (Enterprise invoicing has none)	“You're responsible for any payment processing fees that may apply.” vercel.com

Access and keys

Free tier: $5/month credit on Free Tier eligible models, lower per-model rate limits
“Every Vercel team account gets access to both a free tier and a paid tier for AI Gateway Credits.”
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Bring your own key: yes (paid tier only)
“BYOK is available on the paid tier.”
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BYOK fee: no markup or fee
“With BYOK, there is no markup or fee from AI Gateway.”
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API formats

OpenAI-compatible: yes (OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs)
“The Chat Completions API is available at the following base URL:”
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Anthropic-compatible: yes (Anthropic Messages API)
“The Anthropic Messages API is available at the following base URL:”
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OpenAI base URL: https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1
“baseURL: 'https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1'”
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Anthropic base URL: https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh
“baseURL: 'https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh'”
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Routing

Fallbacks: yes (ordered provider and model fallbacks)
“Route a model across healthy providers and configure ordered provider and model fallbacks.”
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Load balancing: Not stated
Not stated as load balancing in the checked pages (provider failover and ordering are documented).
Automatic model routing: Not stated
Not stated in the checked pages.

Caching

Exact-match cache: Not stated
Cache type not described on the checked pages.
Semantic cache: Not stated
Not stated in the checked pages.
Caching, as listed: "Automatic caching" listed under performance and cost features
“Automatic caching”
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Controls and observability

Spend controls: budgets per team, project, API key or team member (system-credential spend; soft cap)
“Set budgets for a team, project, API key, or team member.”
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Rate limits: per-model rate limits; lower on free tier
“Free tier requests are also rate limited per model, with lower limits than the paid tier.”
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Guardrails: Not stated
The overview mentions "safety controls" under security and compliance; no guardrail feature detail in the checked pages.
Observability: request logs (model, provider attempts, latency, tokens, status, cost)
“Inspect each request's model, provider attempts, latency, token usage, status, and cost in request logs.”
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Telemetry and log export: OpenTelemetry Trace Drains (Pro and Enterprise)
“Trace Drains forward an OpenTelemetry trace of every AI Gateway request to your own observability tool.”
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Data, deployment and license

Data logging and retention: zero data retention by default at the gateway; provider-level ZDR enforcement optional
“AI Gateway uses zero data retention by default. It permanently deletes your prompts and responses after requests complete.”
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Regions: regional inference controls mentioned
“Configure access, data handling, regional inference, and safety controls.”
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Self-hosting: Not stated
Hosted service; callers can run anywhere but no self-hosted gateway is offered in the checked pages.
License: Not stated
Hosted proprietary service; no open-source license stated.

Vendor-stated counts

Model and provider counts as Vercel AI Gateway states them, dated. When two pages disagree, both are shown.

400+ models (vendor-stated, Oct 18 2026)
“400+ models at provider speed with near-zero overhead.”
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Research notes

If a BYOK request fails, AI Gateway retries with system credentials and bills that fallback to credits. Budgets cover system-credential spend only.

FAQ

How much does Vercel AI Gateway cost?

In Vercel AI Gateway's own terms: no markup, no platform fee (tokens (provider list price)); $5/month included (free-tier monthly credit); $0.10 per 1,000 successful requests (team-wide provider allowlist add-on (Pro and Enterprise)); $0.10 per 1,000 requests (team-wide zero data retention add-on (Pro and Enterprise)); $0.075 / 1,000 writes (Custom Reporting writes); $5 / 1,000 queries (Custom Reporting queries); $0.05 per 1,000 traces (Trace Drains (Pro and Enterprise)); $0.50 per 1 GB (trace egress); payment processing fees may apply (credit purchases (Enterprise invoicing has none)). As of October 18, 2026; fees are not converted.

Does Vercel AI Gateway support bring your own key?

Yes (paid tier only), per the vendor: "BYOK is available on the paid tier.". BYOK fee: no markup or fee

Is Vercel AI Gateway OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible?

OpenAI: yes (OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs), base URL https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1. Anthropic: yes (Anthropic Messages API), base URL https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh.

Sources

Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway
Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing
Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/openai-chat-completions
Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/anthropic-messages-api
Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/security-and-compliance
Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers
Source: vercel.com/ai-gateway

Last verified 2026-10-18 from each vendor's own docs, pricing pages, READMEs and license files; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. Fees are shown in the vendor's own words and change without notice, so check the linked source before you commit.

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