Vercel

November 2026

• Vercel: decision models hit 26% of Gateway requests (opens in a new tab)

  11-10 · News · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's November AI Gateway index says decision models were 26.1% of October requests.

• Vercel Chat SDK agents can stream generative UI (opens in a new tab)

  11-07 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel added json-render support to Chat SDK.

• Vercel applies Token Pass credit to standard keys (opens in a new tab)

  11-06 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel now applies Token Pass credit automatically to included model usage in AI Gateway.

• Vercel projects can be configured with vercel.toml (opens in a new tab)

  11-03 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel now accepts vercel.toml as a project configuration file.

October 2026

• Vercel launches Vercel CI in beta (opens in a new tab)

  10-29 · Launch · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel CI is in beta on all plans.

• Vercel's $1M sandbox challenge closes at 57 valid findings and $242,000 paid (opens in a new tab)

  10-21 · Campaign · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel published the results of its two-week $1 million Vercel Sandbox challenge: 1,285 reports.

• Vercel's Token Pass adds a third featured model (opens in a new tab)

  10-20 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's live Token Pass page now lists three featured models - Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.

• Vercel Shop reaches GA on Shopify and Google's UCP (opens in a new tab)

  10-17 · Launch · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel Shop, an open-source Next.js storefront template for Shopify, reached general availability.

• Vercel's Ship 2026 bundles a dozen products into one launch week (opens in a new tab)

  10-16 · Campaign · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's Ship 2026 event shipped Python GA, Vercel Drives (persistent agent storage).

• Open-weight models now take a quarter of AI Gateway spend (opens in a new tab)

  10-16 · News · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's AI Gateway Production Index for October reports open-weight models carried 71.5% of gateway tokens.

• Vercel discounts a new text-to-speech model 80% for its first month (opens in a new tab)

  10-14 · Campaign · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel added Fish Audio's Drama 3 text-to-speech model to AI Gateway.

• Vercel lets an agent shop for a domain, not buy one unsupervised (opens in a new tab)

  10-10 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's CLI gives an agent `domains search`, `domains check` and `domains price` to find and price.

September 2026

• Vercel Connect adds OAuth-backed MCP access for TanStack AI (opens in a new tab)

  09-24 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Agents built with TanStack AI can now call OAuth-protected MCP servers through Vercel Connect.

• Vercel Connect adds a managed Microsoft Teams connector (opens in a new tab)

  09-22 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel Connect now ships a managed connector for Microsoft Teams: it registers the Entra app and Azure Bot.

• Vercel shows billable duration and CPU minutes per deployment (opens in a new tab)

  09-22 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel deployments now display billable duration and CPU minutes in the dashboard.

• Vercel calls Jev its fastest-adopted AI Gateway model ever (opens in a new tab)

  09-19 · News · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel says TypeSafe AI's Jev model - introduced September 15, live on AI Gateway from September 16.

• Open-weight models cross half of Vercel's AI Gateway token volume (opens in a new tab)

  09-18 · News · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's monthly AI Gateway index found open-weight models reached 56% of tokens routed through the gateway.

• GitHub Copilot joins Vercel's AI SDK as a harness (opens in a new tab)

  09-13 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel shipped @ai-sdk/harness-github-copilot, letting GitHub Copilot run behind the same HarnessAgent.

• Vercel makes full deployment protection free on every plan (opens in a new tab)

  09-12 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel now protects every deployment URL, including production.

• Vercel cuts Sandbox domain lookup latency 18x (opens in a new tab)

  09-09 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel moved Sandbox public-domain resolution from one central store to regional replicas.

August 2026

• Vercel discounts MiniMax video models on AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)

  08-31 · Campaign · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel is running a partner promo with MiniMax: H3 and H3 Max video-generation models are 50% off.

• A sandboxed eval for agent-written code (opens in a new tab)

  08-25 · Launch · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Run SDK is a new package for executing the untrusted JavaScript or TypeScript that agents write.

• Connect goes GA, betting agents hold no standing credentials (opens in a new tab)

  08-25 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Connect is now generally available on every plan and in v0.

• Vercel puts $1M on the table to break its own agent sandbox (opens in a new tab)

  08-19 · Campaign · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel opened a $1,000,000 bug bounty for exploits that escape Vercel Sandbox's Firecracker microVM.

• Gives GLM 5.2 away free on AI Gateway to seed default share (opens in a new tab)

  08-14 · Campaign · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel is giving eve agents free use of Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a coding model with a 1M-token context.

• Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace as a native integration (opens in a new tab)

  08-14 · Launch · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Exa's neural search engine is now a one-click native integration on the Vercel Agent Marketplace.

• AI Gateway data shows DeepSeek overtaking Google on tokens (opens in a new tab)

  08-12 · News · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel's AI Gateway index shows DeepSeek at 25% of token volume, past Google's 11%.

• LaunchDarkly joins the Vercel Marketplace (opens in a new tab)

  08-12 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  LaunchDarkly is now installable through the Vercel Marketplace.

• Opens the Sandbox egress firewall to every plan, free included (opens in a new tab)

  08-11 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  The Sandbox egress firewall now comes with every plan, including free.

• skills.sh adds packs so teams share a link, not a list (opens in a new tab)

  08-08 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  skills.sh now has skill packs: multiple agent skills bundled into one unlisted pack with its own URL.

• Vercel bundles a free domain into new Pro subscriptions (opens in a new tab)

  08-08 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  New Pro subscriptions now include one domain free for the first year, across six TLDs: .online, .site.

• Chat SDK adds a Slack approval card that survives redeploys (opens in a new tab)

  08-06 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  The Chat SDK now does human-in-the-loop approvals, under a new `chat/workflow` subpath.

• Six vendors ship a common plugin format for agent extensions (opens in a new tab)

  08-06 · Launch · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open, vendor-neutral packaging standard: a directory with a `plugin.json` manifest.

• v0 goes headless: the app-building agent is now an API (opens in a new tab)

  08-05 · Launch · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  The v0 API is now generally available, so the app-building agent can be driven by code.

• AI Gateway lists on AWS Marketplace to unblock procurement (opens in a new tab)

  08-05 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel put AI Gateway on AWS Marketplace.

• Sandbox becomes a remote execution home for Cognition's Devin (opens in a new tab)

  08-04 · Release · vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Vercel Sandbox now supports Devin Outposts.