Vercel AI Gateway free tier

Every Vercel team gets $5 of AI Gateway credit per month for Free Tier eligible models, rate-limited per model.

Kind: Free credit / quota · Provider type: Gateway

Card needed: not stated on the page

Limits: $5/month of credit; free-tier requests have lower per-model rate limits than the paid tier (numbers not published on the pricing page). Buying credits moves the team to the paid tier and ends the monthly free credit.

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Free models and offers (1)

Model	Requests	Tokens	Other limits / notes
Free Tier eligible models (subset of the catalog) free-tier-models	n/p	n/p	$5 credit/month

n/p = not published on the provider's page. Used for training: not stated.

Notes

Free credits start with your first AI Gateway request.
BYOK needs purchased credits.

Sources

AI Gateway pricing checked 2026-10-25
Free Tier models checked 2026-10-25

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