Vercel AI Gateway
Independent gateway · no token markup · BYOK 0% · checked Sep 23, 2026
What it costs on real workloads
| Model | Direct | Through it |
|---|---|---|
 Claude Sonnet 5 | $400.00 | $400.00vs $400.00 direct |
 GPT-6 Sol | $400.00 | $400.00vs $400.00 direct |
 Gemini 3.8 Flash | $150.00 | $150.00vs $150.00 direct |
 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $27.00 | $27.00vs $27.00 direct |
100M input and 20M output tokens a month, paying with gateway credits.
About Vercel AI Gateway
Managed gateway from Vercel that routes model calls across providers with failover, request logs, budgets and BYOK, billed at provider list price.
- Fee on tokens
- None
- Pricing model
- Provider list prices, no markup or platform fee on tokens
- Bring your own key
- 0% fee
- Entry plan
- Paid tier (purchased AI Gateway Credits)
- Hosting
- Hosted
Features stated: Fallbacks, Caching, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key. Not stated: Load balancing, Guardrails, Prompts, Data residency, Private networking.
The terms, in their words
- Markup
- No markup and no platform fee on tokens; payment processing fees may apply (none when invoiced on Enterprise).
- Bring your own key
- No markup or fee from AI Gateway (BYOK requires purchased credits / paid tier)
- Free tier
- Monthly included free credit on a subset of models with lower per-model rate limits (dollar amount not stated on fetched pages)
- Providers
- Hundreds of models, one API key
- AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens.
- With BYOK, there is no markup or fee from AI Gateway.
- The free tier is a monthly included credit, not an expiring trial.
Source: vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing
Vercel Inc. is an American cloud application company. The company created and maintains the Next.js web development framework.
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