: This blog is outdated, please reference for the latest information or read the docs . The Vercel AI Gateway is now available for alpha testing.Notethis pagehere Built on the , the Gateway lets you switch between ~100 AI models without needing to manage API keys, rate limits, or provider accounts. The Gateway handles authentication, usage tracking, and in the future, billing.AI SDK 5 alpha Get started with and the , or continue reading to learn more.AI SDK 5Gateway The current speed of AI development is fast and is .only getting faster There's a new state-of-the-art model released almost every week.

Frustratingly, this means developers have been locked into a specific provider or model API in their application code. We want to help developers ship fast and keep up with AI progress, without needing 10 different API keys and provider accounts. Production AI applications often run into capacity issues or rate limiting due to high demand. Infrastructure providers move quickly to bring models online and keep up with this demand, but this can come at the expense of performance or availability. The AI Gateway will allow you to load balance across providers, or fail over if a provider…