Claude Opus 4.5 now available in Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway adds support for Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, including a new effort parameter to control token usage across agentic, coding, and vision tasks.
You can now access Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 4.5, via Vercel's with no other provider accounts required.AI Gateway Claude Opus 4.5 is suited for demanding reasoning tasks and complex problem solving. This model has improvements in general intelligence and vision compared to previous iterations. It excels at difficult coding tasks and agentic workflows, especially those with computer use and tool use, and can effectively handle context usage and external memory files. Frontend coding and design are established strengths, particularly for developing real-world web applications. To use Claude Opus 4.5, set to in the .
There is a new parameter for this model. This parameter affects all types of tokens and controls the level of token usage when responding to a request. By default, is set to high and is independent of the thinking budget. To use it in AI Gateway with the AI SDK, set for the provider in , as seen below in the example.modelanthropic/claude-opus-4.5effortefforteffortproviderOptionsAI SDK AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider…