What changed in the Vercel API

GPT 6 Astra from OpenAI is now available on Vercel AI Gateway for coding, computer use, research, and multi-step professional workflows.

Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is now available on AI Gateway for free
Ling 3.0 Flash Sante from Inclusion AI is free on Vercel AI Gateway through October 4 through a -free model ID or regular ID.
GPT 6 Astra now available on Vercel AI Gateway
GPT 6 Astra from OpenAI is now available on Vercel AI Gateway for coding, computer use, research, and multi-step professional workflows.
Zachary Chen, Kevin Dawkins, and 1 other

Basic build machines are now available on Pro and Enterprise

Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox
Run Cursor Cloud Agents on infrastructure you control with Vercel Sandbox, using scale-to-zero workers, isolated microVMs, and durable orchestration.
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Basic build machines are now available on Pro and Enterprise
Pro and Enterprise teams can now select Basic build machines, 2 vCPU and 8 GB, a lower-cost option for smaller apps. New projects still default to Elastic.

Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway

Free domain with Pro offer now includes .app and .dev
The free domain with Pro offer now covers .app and .dev, bringing the eligible TLDs to eight. Every Pro team can claim one domain, free for the first year.
Jeremy Dopkin, Elliot Dauber, and 1 other
Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway
Call Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway
GLM-5.3 served by DigitalOcean is 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway through September 7. Call the promo model name or use provider options to get the discounted rate.
Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Call Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Rohan Taneja, Zachary Chen, and 1 other

AWS PrivateLink is now available on Pro and Enterprise

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway
Call Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Claude Fable 5.1 now available on AI Gateway
Call Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Rohan Taneja, Jerilyn Zheng
AWS PrivateLink is now available on Pro and Enterprise
AWS PrivateLink is now generally available on Vercel. Connect deployments to AWS-hosted databases and services over a private network path.
Miroslav Simulcik, Lakshay Bhushan, and 4 others

AI Gateway budgets now support a user scope. Cap what an individual team member spends through the gateway, alongside team, project, and API key budgets.

fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer through the @ai-sdk/harness-fx adapter, built on the ACP harness. Run it through the same HarnessAgent interface.
Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway
AI Gateway budgets now support a user scope. Cap what an individual team member spends through the gateway, alongside team, project, and API key budgets.
Jeremy Philemon, Sam Chitgopekar, and 3 others
Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily
Snapshot Storage is now calculated daily, so every charge maps to the storage you held that day. Pricing is unchanged at $0.08 per GB-month.
Christian Le, Pranav Kanchi, and 2 others

MiniMax H3 video generation is 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway through September 13. This applies to both H3 and H3 Max. The model IDs are unchanged, so requests you already send get the discount.

MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
MiniMax H3 video generation is 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway through September 13. This applies to both H3 and H3 Max. The model IDs are unchanged, so requests you already send get the discount.
Josh Lipman, Jerilyn Zheng

Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway

Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway
Call Tencent's Hy4 Preview through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
Build eve agents from the Vercel dashboard. The builder scaffolds the code, pushes it to your Git repo, and creates a Vercel project with AI Gateway models, web chat or Slack, and MCP connections.
Vercel CLI expands commands for DNS, domains, and projects
New Vercel CLI commands bring more DNS, domain, and project workflows to the terminal. Inspect and update DNS records, renew domains, configure projects, and manage members interactively or through automation.
David Lee, Melkey Moksyakov

Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Ship a Slack research bot built on Claude Managed Agents and Chat SDK. One persistent session per thread, streamed briefs with sources, and no Slack credentials to manage.
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Cursor now runs through the AI SDK harness layer via @ai-sdk/harness-cursor, using the same HarnessAgent interface as every other supported harness.
Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
The filters on the Deployments page have been redesigned with one-click suggestions, typeahead matching, and natural language queries to help you find deployments faster.
wits, Christopher Skillicorn, and 1 other
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin from Inclusion AI is free on AI Gateway through September 25, with a -free model ID that stops serving instead of billing.

Muse Image now available on AI Gateway

Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
Call Meta's Muse Image through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Josh Lipman, Zachary Chen, and 1 other
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
Call Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and request traces.
Kevin Dawkins, Jerilyn Zheng
Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Call Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and request traces.
GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Call Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Flash through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available
The Vercel Security Dashboard gives you a single place to view the security posture of every project.
Roman Olynyk, Kostyantyn Voytenko, and 2 others
Python projects now support routing rules
Set response headers and rewrite requests for FastAPI, Django, and Flask apps with routing ru

Chat SDK's Slack adapter now supports Slack Enterprise Grid.

Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities
Applications hosted on Vercel are protected from recently disclosed Next.js vulnerabilities.
Steven Salat, Zack Tanner, and 1 other
Speed Insights now has a free tier
A free performance overview from real users, now on every plan, with paid capabilities continuing as Speed Insights Plus.
Damien Simonin Feugas, Chris Widmaier
MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway
MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on Vercel AI Gateway through September 6 when GMI Cloud serves them, using the -free model IDs or a provider pin.
Zachary Chen, Jerilyn Zheng
Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway
Alibaba's Wan 3.0 is now on Vercel AI Gateway, generating up to 30 seconds of video with audio from text, image, video, and audio references.
Josh Lipman, Jerilyn Zheng
AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation
AI Gateway can now run video generation as a background job, with three ways to wait for it: a webhook, a start and status pair, or short polling requests.
Kevin Dawkins, Gregor Martynus, and 3 others
Vercel Connect is now generally available
Vercel Connect, the secure connectivity layer for AI agents and apps, is 

Vercel Functions using the Bun runtime now support larger package sizes up to 5GB and extended max duration up to 30 minutes.

Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache hits to prevent downgrades
Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache data when deciding tier downgrades, keeping heavily cached builds on their machine tier to prevent underprovisioning.
Vercel Sandbox is now globally available
Vercel Sandbox now runs in iad1, sfo1, cle1, and cdg1. Choose a region per sandbox, set a project default, and configure failover regions.
Marc Codina Segura, Tom Lienard, and 3 others
Environment variables now use Config and Secret types
Choose Config or Secret when adding environment variables in the dashboard and CLI. Config values stay readable to authorized members; Secret values are write-only after saving.
Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration
Vercel Functions using the Bun runtime now support larger package sizes up to 5GB and extended max duration up to 30 minutes.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway

Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready
Deployment Storage is now measured and billed at $0.10 per GB per month for new Pro and Enterprise teams. Control retention in Deployment History.
Jay Gengelbach, Mehul Kar, and 2 others
Vercel CLI expands support for DNS, domains, and project commands
New Vercel CLI commands bring more DNS, domain, and project workflows to the terminal. Inspect and update DNS records, renew domains, configure projects, and manage members interactively or through automation.
David Lee, Melkey Moksyakov
GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off a lower price
GPT-5.6 Sol list pricing drops to $4 and $20 per million tokens, and the 50% AI Gateway discount still applies, so requests now cost even less.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway
Call DeepSeek V4 Flash with image input through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key, a 1M token context window, fallbacks, and a trace on every request.
Kevin Dawkins, Jerilyn Zheng
Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
Apps and agents built in v0 can now securely connect to 100+ third-party services, including Slack, Google, Notion, GitHub, and Salesforce, through Vercel Connect

Vercel Functions now support the new Bun 1.4 release, a complete rewrite of Bun from Zig to Rust, with many improvements to Node.js compatibility and bug fixes.

Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI
List, inspect, reply to, and resolve Vercel Toolbar comments from the terminal with the new vercel comments command.
Julian Benegas, Vishal Yathish, and 1 other
Custom metrics are now supported in Vercel Observability
Emit your own metrics from Vercel Functions and analyze them alongside Vercel's built-in observability data.
Vercel Agent is now available in Slack code channels
Start a code channel to give a task its own shared Vercel Agent session, where your team can send requests, review diffs, and coordinate together.
Hiroki Osame, Bryan Hunter, and 2 others
Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI
Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI. The new vercel vcr commands let you create and inspect repositories, browse images and tags, and connect your existing container tooling. Docker, Podman, and Buildah are all supported.
Marc Codina Segura, Andy Waller
Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions
Vercel Functions now support the new Bun 1.4 release, a complete rewrite of Bun from Zig to Rust, with many improvements to Node.js compatibility and bug fixes.
Florentin Eckl, Tom Lienard

Algolia is now available on the Vercel Marketplace, letting Vercel teams add search and discovery to their applications without managing search infrastructure.

Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace
Algolia is now available on the Vercel Marketplace, letting Vercel teams add search and discovery to their applications without managing search infrastructure.
Hedi Zandi, Joe Sadowski, and 1 other
Compliance documents are now available in Team settings
Preview and download Vercel's compliance documents — attestations like SOC 2 Type 2, security policies, and other trust documents — directly in Pro and Enterprise Team settings.
Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free
Fish Audio's speech and transcription models are now on Vercel AI Gateway and free for 30 days, with one API key, no provider account, and spend tracking.
Vercel for Slack now in public beta
Vercel for Slack enters public beta, adding coding alongside your team, production investigations, and secure, user-approved remediation actions.
Bryan Hunter, Vishal Yathish, and 3 others
Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft
Vercel Connect adds a managed connector for Microsoft. Automatically register a Microsoft Entra app through Connect and mint delegated and application tokens. 
Bhrigu Srivastava, Hedi Zandi, and 1 other

Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer through the @ai-sdk/harness-cline adapter, implemented in collaboration with the Cline team. Run it through the same HarnessAgent interface.

Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter
Chat SDK now supports Instagram Direct Messages. Build DM bots with media, quick replies, reactions, and story replies.
Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositories
Pass a short-lived GitHub token when creating a deployment. Vercel uses it to retrieve the source, stores it encrypted, and never saves it on the deployment.
Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer through the @ai-sdk/harness-cline adapter, implemented in collaboration with the Cline team. Run it through the same HarnessAgent interface.
GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway
Call Z.ai's GLM-5.3 through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no markup or platform fee, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Walter Korman, Jerilyn Zheng
Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys
Vercel KMS lets you sign JWTs and messages from your Vercel Functions with managed keys. Authenticate with your function's OIDC token, keep private keys out of your code, and manage issuers, keys, and grants from the dashboard or CLI. Now in Public Beta.
Marc Greenstock, Lakshay Bhushan, and

GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway from August 17 through September 18 on all requests running through AI Gateway.

Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta
Connect Cursor Origin repositories to Vercel projects for automatic Preview and Production deployments.
GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month
GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on Vercel AI Gateway from August 17 through September 18 on all requests running through AI Gateway.

Vercel CDN now supports ECH for domains managed by Vercel DNS.

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN
Vercel CDN now supports ECH for domains managed by Vercel DNS.

One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions

GLM 5.2 free for eve agents through August 27 via Blackbox on AI Gateway
GLM 5.2, Z​.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context window, is free for eve agents through August 27, served by Blackbox AI on Vercel AI Gateway.
Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off
Call Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and request traces.
Joe McKenney, Jerilyn Zheng
One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions
You can now upgrade Node.js 20 projects with one click from the Vercel Dashboard.
Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer through the @ai-sdk/harness-grok-build adapter, built on the ACP harness. Run it through the same HarnessAgent interface.
Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer
The new @ai-sdk/harness-acp package is a meta adapter that lets you use any Agent Client Protocol compatible harness with the AI SDK's HarnessAgent.
Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace
Exa's neural search engine delivers high-quality, relevant results to ground AI in fresh, current information. Add 

Exa web search is now available on Vercel AI Gateway as a tool that works with any model, and is now the default web search tool in eve. Free through August 31st, with no separate Exa API key required

DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs on updated weights by default on Vercel AI Gateway. Existing requests pick them up with no code change, and the dated model ID pins the new version.
Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve
Exa web search is now available on Vercel AI Gateway as a tool that works with any model, and is now the default web search tool in eve. Free through August 31st, with no separate Exa API key required.
Set up coding agents in one command with AI Gateway
One Vercel CLI command connects Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more to AI Gateway: run any model in any agent, with governance and observability in one place.
Sam Chitgopekar, Carlton Aikins, and 1 other
Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams
Every Vercel Pro team can now claim a free domain for one year from domain search in the dashboard. Six TLDs are available, one domain per team.
Jeremy Dopkin, Elliot Dauber
Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway
Call SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Walter Korman, Jerilyn Zheng

LaunchDarkly is now available as a first-party integration on the Vercel Marketplace, working with the Flags SDK and Global Config for low-latency flag evaluation.

Vercel Connect adds observability support
Vercel Connect adds line-level visibility into the token lifecycle. Filter events, track metrics, and forward data to any log drain endpoint.
Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available
Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) gives organizations full control over the Vercel accounts tied to their verified domains.
Ana Jovanova, Javier Bórquez, and 4 others
Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
Vercel connect create now completes setup for any of the 100+ preset connectors in the terminal, instead of opening the dashboard.
LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace
LaunchDarkly is now available as a first-party integration on the Vercel Marketplace, working with the Flags SDK and Global Config for low-latency flag evaluation.
Marc Brakken, Hedi Zandi, and 2 others

Versioned, open-source base images with Node.js, Python, and coding agents preinstalled replace Sandbox runtimes as the default.

Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images
Versioned, open-source base images with Node.js, Python, and coding agents preinstalled replace Sandbox runtimes as the default.
Simplified onboarding for deepsec
deepsec now goes from an unconfigured repo to its first completed security scan with one command, npx deepsec init, including model selection, threat model generation, and scan coverage checks.
Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint
Deploy a Bun.serve() server to Vercel Functions, including native WebSocket handlers.

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 from xAI is now available on Vercel AI Gateway as a preview, an image generation and editing model that plans typography and layout together and renders small text sharply.

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 from xAI is now available on Vercel AI Gateway as a preview, an image generation and editing model that plans typography and layout together and renders small text sharply.
Walter Korman, Esteban Suárez, and 1 other

Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther as destinations, replacing Custom SIEM Log Streaming for Enterprise teams.

Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent can now use Vercel AI Gateway for inference across 200+ models with no markup on tokens, and run agent commands in isolated Vercel Sandbox microVMs.
Jerilyn Zheng, Elisabeth Rülke
Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
Open a repository to read-only pulls from anyone with a Vercel account. Repositories stay private by default.
Andy Waller, Tom Lienard, and 2 others
Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther
Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther as destinations, replacing Custom SIEM Log Streaming for Enterprise teams.
Luka Hartwig, Nate McGrady
Skill packs are now available on skills.sh
You can now build your own pack of agent skills from the skills.sh directory, letting you download and update multiple skills with a single command.
Free domain now included with new Pro subscriptions
New Vercel Pro subscriptions include a free domain for the first year, available on six TLDs and claimed at checkout or from the dashboard within 30 days.
Elliot Dauber, Jeremy Dopkin, and 1 other
Give every agent in Herdr its own Vercel Sandbox
Run terminal-based ag

edance 2.5 from ByteDance is now available on Vercel AI Gateway, generating up to 30 seconds in a single clip, with multimodal reference, targeted editing, and asynchronous generation that survives se

Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
edance 2.5 from ByteDance is now available on Vercel AI Gateway, generating up to 30 seconds in a single clip, with multimodal reference, targeted editing, and asynchronous generation that survives serverless timeouts.
Josh Lipman, Walter Korman, and 1 other
Marketplace integrations now install provider skills
The Vercel CLI now installs a provider's agent skills automatically when you install its Marketplace integration, giving AI agents like v0, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex the context to work with the service.
Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway
Ling 3.0 Flash from inclusionAI is available on AI Gateway with BYOK support, no markup on provider pricing, high rate limits, and automatic failover, across all API formats. Free to use for three weeks, through mid-August.
Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0
A common format for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins.
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Give each project its own avatar, distinct from your account or team avatar. Vercel auto-detects the project's favicon on deploy, and you can override it anytime from project settings.

AI Gateway is now available on AWS Marketplace, so teams can procure it through their AWS account with consolidated billing and draw down on existing AWS spend commitments.

Pause workflows for approval with Chat SDK
One requestApproval call posts an Approve and Deny card and suspends your workflow until a user decides. Waits survive deploys and restarts.
Set your own project avatars
Give each project its own avatar, distinct from your account or team avatar. Vercel auto-detects the project's favicon on deploy, and you can override it anytime from project settings.
New setup page after domain checkout
Set up a domain right after buying it on Vercel: deploy a new project, connect an existing one, proxy or redirect a site, or set up email with DNS presets.
Export AI Gateway traces with Vercel Drains
AI Gateway now produces an OpenTelemetry trace for every request. Pro and Enterprise teams can send these traces through Vercel Drains to any OTLP/HTTP-compatible endpoint, including native integrations for Braintrust, Dash0, Kubiks, Sentry, and Statsig.
Jerilyn Zheng, Jeremy Philemon, and 2 others
AI Gateway is now available on AWS Marketplace
AI Gateway is now available on AWS Marketplace, so teams can procure it through their AWS account with consolidated billing and draw down on existing AWS spend commitments.
Muse Spark 1.2 is now available on Verce

Skill packs are now available on skills.sh

Skill packs are now available on skills.sh
You can now build your own pack of agent skills from the skills.sh directory, letting you download and update multiple skills with a single command.
Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many ISR pages
Vercel deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many pages that use Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), with the biggest gains for apps that have many prerendered pages.
DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4 Flash served by Novita is 90% off on Vercel AI Gateway for Pro customers through August 11. Pin Novita with the order provider option to get the discounted rate.
Kevin Dawkins, Jerilyn Zheng

Protect Blob stores with WAF custom rules, now supported for production use on all plans. Rules and setup from the beta carry over unchanged.

Give your eve agent a browser
Your eve agent can now navigate the web like a human.
Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available
Protect Blob stores with WAF custom rules, now supported for production use on all plans. Rules and setup from the beta carry over unchanged.
Share Vercel Container Registry repositories across teams
You can now share Vercel Container Registry repositories with up to 100 Vercel teams. 

Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Call Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max through Vercel AI Gateway with one API key: no provider account, automatic fallbacks, spend tracking, and traces on every request.
Walter Korman, Jerilyn Zheng