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What Vercel AI Gateway really costs, from its own pricing page, and what that means for your LLM bill.
Provider list price with no markup and no platform fee on tokens, including with your own keys. Some optional features, such as custom reporting and team-wide zero data retention, cost extra.
What Vercel AI Gateway charges
Provider list price with no markup and no platform fee on tokens, including with your own keys. Some optional features, such as custom reporting and team-wide zero data retention, cost extra.
One API for many models, built into Vercel.
What Vercel AI Gateway costs at your spend
| Monthly LLM spend | Vercel AI Gateway fee (0% markup on tokens) | apicuts: guaranteed lower cost |
|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | $0 | $2,000 or more |
| $50,000 | $0 | $10,000 or more |
| $100,000 | $0 | $20,000 or more |
The Vercel AI Gateway column assumes all spend goes through the fee. apicuts guarantees your all-in cost falls at least 20% after its 10% fee, or you pay nothing.
What the price doesn't include
- The tokens themselves, at your providers' prices.
- The engineering time to set up caching, routing, batching and limits, and to keep them working.
- Any guarantee that your total bill goes down.
Vercel AI Gateway vs apicuts on cost
Vercel AI Gateway is priced for teams building on Vercel that want list-price access to many models. apicuts is priced on results: 10% of the savings we verify, and if your all-in bill isn't at least 20% lower after that fee, you pay nothing. See apicuts pricing or APIcuts vs Vercel AI Gateway.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Vercel AI Gateway cost?
Provider list price with no markup and no platform fee on tokens, including with your own keys. Some optional features, such as custom reporting and team-wide zero data retention, cost extra.
Does Vercel AI Gateway mark up model prices?
No. Its docs say there is no markup and no platform fee on tokens.
Sources: Vercel AI Gateway's pricing page. Checked October 30, 2026.
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