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Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel's unified endpoint for text, image, video and speech models across providers, used from the AI SDK and OpenAI-compatible clients.

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Type: Product vendor fix
Tier: T3
Section: Inference platforms & gateways
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SDK languages: rest, typescript vendor fix
Protocols: openai-compatible vendor fix
Compliance: gdpr, hipaa, iso27001, pci-dss, soc2-type2 vendor fix

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What it is Product vendor
What it does & what's distinct Vercel's unified endpoint for text, image, video and speech models across providers, use… vendor
License proprietary vendor
Project & sources https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway vendor
cost-model-routing yes vendor
licensing-bucket commercial vendor
taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
compliance-certifications gdpr,hipaa,iso27001,pci-dss,soc2-type2 vendor
sdk-languages rest,typescript vendor
protocol-support openai-compatible vendor
maturity ga vendor

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2026-10-30 Added to the catalog #347

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References (23)

Aider integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Aider coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Claude Code (Anthropic) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Claude Code coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Cline (harness) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Cline coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Continue.dev integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Continue CLI coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Cursor (IDE) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Cursor coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
DeepSeek R1 / V3 family integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway model directory has a DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model page. (verified 2026-10-29)
GitHub Copilot (Agent Mode) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a GitHub Copilot CLI coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway model directory has a Gemini model page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Goose (Block) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Goose coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
LangChain (framework) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a LangChain framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Langfuse integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Langfuse framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
LiteLLM integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a LiteLLM framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a LlamaIndex framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Mastra integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Mastra framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway model directory has a Mistral Large 4 model page. (verified 2026-10-29)
OpenAI Codex CLI integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a OpenAI Codex coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — Vercel's unified endpoint for text, image, video and speech models across providers, used from the AI SDK and OpenAI-compatible clients.
Opencode (SST) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a OpenCode coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
OpenHands integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a OpenHands coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Pydantic-AI integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Pydantic AI framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Roo Code integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Roo Code coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Vercel AI SDK integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a AI SDK page page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Zed (Agentic Editing) integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Zed coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)

Referenced by (4)

HoneyHive integrates with — HoneyHive integrations docs have a Vercel AI Gateway tracing/integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Kong AI Gateway integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Vercel (AI Gateway) AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has a Vercel AI Gateway LLM integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Vercel AI SDK integrates with — AI SDK providers docs have a Vercel AI Gateway provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)