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Vercel AI Gateway free tier

🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · card required · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · vercel.com · back to the whole list

What you get

OpenAI-compatible model gateway with $5 of monthly credit after adding a payment method, plus separate zero-priced model routes

Free models

laguna-s-2.1, nemotron-3.5-lightning, beam-1.0

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Gateway credit: $5/month per team

Free credit rate limits: Requests allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published (Limits apply per model.)

Beam launch offer: Usage allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published (The free route stops at the end of the launch offer; the end date and numerical allowance are unpublished.); for reflection/beam-free

A team must add a valid payment method before using free credit; otherwise requests return 403 customer_verification_required. Credit spends at provider list rates and excludes BYOK. Buying credit ends the monthly free credit. Zero-priced model routes remain a separate free mode and do not spend that balance. Use their exact free IDs: a similarly named route without its free suffix can be metered.

Where it is offered

The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).

What happens to what you send

What you send may be used to train or improve models unless you turn that off. In the vendor’s words: “By default, AI Gateway does not route based on the training data policy of providers. If we do not know a provider’s training data stance or have not yet established an agreement with them, we assume that they train on your data.” (source).

Connect

Try it from your terminal with your key in VERCEL_AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY — it goes from your machine to the vendor and nowhere else:

curl -s https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VERCEL_AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"poolside/laguna-s-2.1-free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

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