LLM prices per 1M tokens

264 models · 161 price changes

Vercel AI Gateway

Independent gateway · no token markup · BYOK 0%

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What it costs on real workloads

ModelThrough it
Claude Sonnet 5$400.00vs $400.00 direct
GPT-6 Sol$400.00vs $400.00 direct
Gemini 3.8 Flash$150.00vs $150.00 direct
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$10.50vs $10.50 direct

100M input and 20M output tokens a month, paying with gateway credits. A dash: not on its model list.

Carries 161 of the models tracked here, from its own model catalog, checked Nov 9, 2026.

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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