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Activeverified July 17, 2026

Vercel AI Gateway free tier

Vercel AI Gateway routes LLM requests across providers. Vercel’s current pricing documentation and Academy guide disagree about its monthly free credit and model access; free use ends after purchasing paid credits.

Offer detailsUsage-basedCredits

Free-tier allowances

Offer details
Free access is limited to a subset of models and ends after paid credits are purchased.
Evidence: official pricing page (accessed 2026-07-17)

Requirements and restrictions

Restrictions

  • Vercel pricing and Academy pages conflict on the free credit and model set.
  • Monthly free credit ends after paid credits are purchased.

Verify conditions at the official source.

Provider snapshot

Primary vertical
Developer Platform
Target customer
Developers
Country
USA
Founded
2024

Also serves: API gateway, caching, rate limiting

Developer experience

Check the current AI Gateway dashboard for the available free credit and model set; published Vercel pages conflict.

Features

  • Unified model gateway
  • Routing and caching

Core products

Developer platform

Categories

Subcategories: API gateway for LLMs

Verified July 17, 2026Added May 31, 2026Updated September 13, 2026How we check offersJSON record

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