Monthly cost
$0+ / mo
Gateway fees + provider costs
Popularity
4/5
LLM knowledge
4/5
Difficulty
Easy
#ai-native
What Vercel AI Gateway is good at
Strengths
- +One SDK for all providers
- +Streaming helpers
- +Built for Next.js
Tradeoffs
- −Thin wrapper — providers still cost
Coding-agent prompt
Drop into Claude / Cursor to get idiomatic Vercel AI Gateway code.
You're using the Vercel AI SDK. Follow these rules: - `streamText` for streaming, `generateText` for one-shot. - `streamUI` when the model should generate UI pieces (Server Components). - Tools via `tool()` with zod schemas — type-safe end-to-end. - Provider-agnostic: swap models by changing a single `model:` prop. - Use the `useChat` hook client-side; `useCompletion` for simpler single-shot. - Deploy on Vercel so streaming lands over Fluid Compute cleanly.
Beginner's guide to Vercel AI Gateway
In one line: One toolkit for calling any AI provider — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, etc.
Vercel's AI SDK wraps multiple model providers behind one interface and includes helpers for streaming text to the browser. Use it when you want to swap providers without rewriting code.
Try it in your terminal
npm install aiInstall the core SDK.
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