Building an AI business is no small feat. Delivering a great agentic product requires infrastructure that handles deployment, security, and scale automatically, but that's table stakes. Startups also need community support, mentorship, investor connections, platform credits, and visibility. That's why we created the Vercel AI Accelerator. Last year, we hosted our second cohort of 40 early-stage teams from across the globe. They joined us for six weeks of learning, building, and shipping, hearing from speakers in leadership at AWS, Anthropic, Cursor, Braintrust, MongoDB, HubSpot, Vercel, and more. The program culminated with a demo day in San Francisco that drew hundreds from across the industry. This year, the Accelerator is back with another cohort of 40 teams building the future of AI. Applications are open now until February 16th. Program benefits The AI Accelerator provides access to thousands of dollars in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and a variety of AI platforms. Participants also get to join an exclusive group of AI builders within the Vercel Community. Here are the full details: Credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms, including Anthropic, Cursor, ElevenLabs, Hugging Face, Cartesia, Roboflow, Modal, Julius.ai, Sentry, Vanta, Auth0, Browserbase, WorkOS, Supabase, Autonoma, and Neon Join an exclusive group of AI builders within the Vercel Community to share progress and exchange ideas during the program Participate in weekly sessions with industry leaders connect you directly with AI startup founders, investors, and technical leaders through fireside chats and office hours Access production-focused guides, templates, and videos designed to accelerate development cycles and help ship faster Present your product to industry leaders and VCs at demo day, creating visibility and potential fundraising opportunities Platform credits and prizes Every company accepted into the Accelerator receives thousands of dollars in credits from partner platforms. Finalists earn over $100K each in additional credit prizes, providing the compute and infrastructure resources needed to build and scale AI applications without operational overhead. Six weeks of focused development The 40 selected teams will join us from March 2nd to April 16th for six weeks of building and networking. The program includes: Direct access to leading AI builders Exclusive AI content Community connections Optional IRL meet ups Welcome and mid-point goal check-ins Mentorship from VC partners The program ends with a demo day in San Francisco on April 16th: The audience will include leaders and investors Judges will select 3 winners to receive over $100k in resources The first-place winner will receive an investment from Vercel Ventures Our previous demo day featured product launches from 26 teams and attracted hundreds of industry professionals. Judges from AWS, Vercel, Cursor, Modal, OpenAI, and Roboflow selected the winners. Since that event, several teams have raised venture funding rounds, secured enterprise customers, and established partnerships through connections made during the accelerator. Infrastructure for AI development We continue investing across the AI stack, from SDKs to templates, supporting how developers build modern apps and agents. Recent AI releases include Workflow DevKit, Sandboxes, Skills.sh, and git support in v0. These tools are designed to handle infrastructure automatically so teams can focus on building AI products. Companies like Sensay, Chatbase, and Leonardo.ai are built with Next.js and deployed on Vercel. Focus on what matters AI agents can now operate autonomously on code, making decisions and taking actions without constant human oversight. This shift requires infrastructure that scales automatically and handles operational complexity behind the scenes. Vercel provides that foundation, giving startups the freedom to focus on building AI applications that solve real problems. In our last cohort we backed early-stage teams like Stably AI, Cervo, Bear AI, and General Translation. Apply to the Vercel AI Accelerator and join a cohort of developers building AI applications that operate independently and scale automatically. Applications close February 16th. Applicants must be Vercel customers at or above the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Applicants must be able to commit to the full 6 weeks of the program. Applicants must not be located in, or otherwise subject to restrictions imposed by, U.S. sanctions laws.We are looking for pre-seed ideas. Applications will be judged based on quality of submission, founder background, and overall potential for impact and scalability.

Agents and agentic AI give developers new ways to move faster and build better. They create connected, autonomous systems that continuously improve applications and raise the bar for speed and quality. But typically, integrating AI services means managing separate dashboards, billing systems, and authentication flows for each tool. A team using three different AI services might waste hours wiring up each integration before writing a single line of application code. Today, we're introducing the AI agents and services category to the Vercel marketplace. You can now add AI-powered workflows to your projects through native Vercel integrations with unified billing, observability, and installation flows built into the platform.

Every generation of software moves interfaces closer to where people think and work. Terminals gave way to GUIs. GUIs gave way to browsers. And now, the interface is language itself. Conversation has become the most natural way to build, explore, and decide. At the center of this shift is a new pattern: the AI agent. Today, software doesn’t have to wait for clicks or configuration, but understands user intent, reason about it, and takes action. The question for enterprises isn’t if they’ll adopt agents, but where those agents will live. Our answer: where work already happens. That’s why Vercel and Salesforce are partnering to help teams build, ship, and scale AI agents across the Salesforce ecosystem, starting with Slack. Together, we’re bringing the intelligence and flexibility of the Vercel AI Cloud to the places teams collaborate every day.

Today, Vercel announced an important milestone: a Series F funding round valuing our company at $9.3 billion. The $300M investment is co-led by longtime partners at Accel and new investors at GIC, alongside other incredible supporters. We're also launching a ~$300M tender offer for certain early investors, employees, and former employees. To all the customers, investors, and Vercelians who have been on this journey with us: thank you.

We’re updating Vercel’s Pro plan to better align with how modern teams collaborate, how applications consume infrastructure, and how workloads are evolving with AI. Concretely, we’re making the following changes: A flexible spending model: Instead of discrete included allotments across 20+ infra products, we’re transitioning to a flexible usage balance. Free Viewer seats: Teammates can access previews, analytics, and more without needing to pay for a seat. Self-serve Enterprise features: SAML SSO, HIPAA BAAs, and more are now available to everyone on the Pro plan. No need to contact sales. Better Spend Management: Spend Management is now enabled by default, to provide peace of mind against rare runaway u...

At Vercel, we're building the platform that delivers every pixel and token, and powers every frontend, backend, and agent on the web. With more than 4M weekly active domains and 115B weekly requests served by Vercel, the most forward-thinking teams are choosing Vercel’s AI Cloud to deliver fast, secure, full-stack applications with zero friction, infinite scale, and complete developer freedom. We’re proud to be the only vendor named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Native Application Platforms. We believe that this recognition serves as validation: the future of the web is being built on Vercel.

Shipped on Vercel showcases real apps in production on Vercel, built by teams rethinking how the web works. What gets built on Vercel spans categories and disciplines. AI assistants, internal dashboards, developer tools, creative workflows, consumer apps. Some are minimal and some are complex, while some are built by one person and others by teams of hundreds. All of them share a high standard of craft and a clear sense of what makes a great experience. We’re seeing a new wave of software that’s thoughtful, expressive, and opinionated. Interfaces feel intentional and interactions feel immediate, while...

Vercel is partnering with Solara6, a digital agency known for building high-performing ecommerce experiences for customers like Kate Spade, Coach, and Mattress Firm. Their work emphasizes AI-powered efficiencies, fast iteration cycles, and user experience, while prioritizing measurable outcomes. Solara6 customers see improvements in their developer velocity, operational costs, page load times, conversion rates, and organic traffic.

NuxtLabs, creators and stewards of Nitro and Nuxt, are joining Vercel. Nuxt, the fullstack web framework, is trusted by hundreds of thousands of developers and used by some of the world’s largest companies, with more than 1 million downloads every week. Nitro is the server runtime built for consistency across frameworks, platforms, and workloads. It powers APIs, AI agents, and more. In many ways, Nitro does for web frameworks what the Open Container Initiative did for containers: setting a clear, portable standard. Led by Sebastien Chopin, original creator of Nuxt,...

My first week at Vercel coincided with something extraordinary: Vercel Ship 2025. Vercel Ship 2025 showcased better building blocks for the future of app development. AI has made this more important than ever. Over 1,200 people gathered in NYC for our third annual event, to hear the latest updates in AI, compute, security, and more. As AI reshapes app development, Vercel Ship highlighted tools, infrastructure, and platform enhancements to help teams stay fast, flexible, and secure. Whether building AI-powered apps or agents, integrating LLMs, or managing high-stakes production traffic, everything focuses on giving you the tools you need to build. AI is raising expectations around performance, cost, and security. Over the past decade, Vercel defined the Frontend Cloud. Now we're building the next layer with the AI Cloud. Inf...

Today, we're announcing an expansion of our partnership with WPP. A first-of-its-kind agency collaboration that now brings v0 and AI SDK directly to WPP's global network of creative teams and their clients. Now with our AI tools, creatives at WPP design, prototype, test, and deploy digital experiences and agents with new velocity, reducing ideation and iteration cycles from weeks to hours. v0 introduces a new way of working for designers. Developer-adjacent roles without coding expertise can create beautiful and performant online experiences with greater precision, before needing to engage a developer. By adding v0 and AI SDK, WPP internal pilots show up to 25% faster digital production times, givi...

Note: This blog is outdated, please reference this page for the latest information or read the docs here. The Vercel AI Gateway is now available for alpha testing. Built on the AI SDK 5 alpha, 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. Get started with AI SDK 5 and the Gateway, or continue reading to learn more. Why we're building the AI Gateway 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 has downtime or degradation in performance. Model inference costs keep dropping and providers are competing on quality, performance, and price. The Gateway helps you quickly take advantage of these cost savings. We're taking what we've learned scaling v0 to millions of users, by quickly load balancing and switching between a mixture of providers, and turning that infrastructure into the AI Gateway. Integration with the AI SDK We built the AI SDK to create a common abstraction for AI model APIs across modalities like text, images, and audio. The AI SDK is free and open source, and works with any model or infrastructure provider. The AI Gateway is a separate Vercel product built on top of the AI SDK. We're building these products with high cohesion, but loose coupling. The Gateway will take full advantage of AI SDK features like tool calling, function arguments, streaming, retries, attachments, and structured outputs. Pricing During the AI Gateway alpha, usage is free with rate limits based on your Vercel plan tier. These rate limits are similar to the current AI SDK Playground. We plan to support pay-as-you-go pricing when the Gateway reaches general availability. Model pricing will follow the provider's market rates, updated regularly. We are also planning to explore bring-your-own-key in the future. What's coming next Load balancing and model failover Pay-as-you-go billing Bring-your-own-key support Unified logging, usage tracking, and observability OpenAI-compatible API Start exploring AI Gateway We're shipping this in alpha to get your input and early feedback. Tag us on X to share your work and tell us what you want to see from the AI Gateway. For more information, get started with our demo applications: Next.js demo Svelte demo For model support and more usage examples, visit ai-sdk.dev/model-library.