--- title: "Vercel AI Gateway: rubric and evidence | Agent MCP Directory" description: "Vercel AI Gateway: A model gateway that bills at provider list price with no token markup, supports BYOK without a fee. Evidence and sources on every line." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/vercel-ai-gateway site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Hosts and registries" --- # Vercel AI Gateway: rubric and evidence | Agent MCP Directory > Vercel AI Gateway: A model gateway that bills at provider list price with no token markup, supports BYOK without a fee. Evidence and sources on every line. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/vercel-ai-gateway Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # Vercel AI Gateway Vercel AI Gateway (Vercel): A model gateway that bills at provider list price with no token markup, supports BYOK without a fee, and charges for add-ons such as custom reporting and team-wide ZDR. Protocols fronted: model APIs. Price read 4 November 2026: Provider list price, no markup. ## Fact sheet | Product | Vercel AI Gateway | | --- | --- | | Operator | Vercel | | Kind | AI gateway | | Home | vercel.com | | Pricing | Provider list price, no markup; add-ons from 0.075 USD per 1,000 writes; read 2026-11-04. (source, read 4 November 2026) | | In this directory | Vercel: sign-in required, tools not seen, not counted | | Vendor profile | Vercel | ## Rubric | Dimension | Value | Evidence | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Protocols fronted | model APIs | MCP servers are hosted with mcp-handler, not fronted by the gateway. | vercel.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Auth passthrough | BYOK with system fallback | Fallback billed to credits. | vercel.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Caching | not on the pricing page | Not stated, as stated on the source page. | vercel.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Pricing | no markup, paid add-ons | Dated 2026-11-04. | vercel.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Observability | budgets, reporting, trace drains | Paid add-ons. | vercel.com, read 2026-11-04 | ## What it does not do - Does not proxy MCP tool calls. - BYOK spend is excluded from gateway budgets. ## Dated facts - AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens; BYOK carries no fee but needs purchased credits. ([vercel.com](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026) - The free tier covers a subset of models with lower per-model rate limits and returns 429 when exceeded. ([vercel.com](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026) - When a BYOK request fails, the gateway retries with system credentials and bills that fallback to the credits balance. ([vercel.com](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026) - Custom Reporting costs 0.075 USD per 1,000 tag writes and 5 USD per 1,000 queries. ([vercel.com](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026) - Team-wide zero data retention and the team-wide provider allowlist each cost 0.10 USD per 1,000 requests. ([vercel.com](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026) - Trace Drains bill 0.05 USD per 1,000 traces and 0.50 USD per GB of egress on Pro and Enterprise. ([vercel.com](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026) ## Compare and alternatives - [Alternatives to Vercel AI Gateway](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/vercel-ai-gateway/alternatives/) - [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Vercel AI Gateway](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway/) Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/vercel-ai-gateway/index.md) ## Sources - [Vercel AI Gateway home](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway), read 4 November 2026 - [Vercel AI Gateway pricing](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing), read 4 November 2026 - [Vercel AI Gateway: vercel.com/docs/mcp/deploy-mcp-servers-to-vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/mcp/deploy-mcp-servers-to-vercel), read 4 November 2026 Last reviewed 4 November 2026