Introducing the AI Gateway

This post announces the alpha release of the Vercel AI Gateway, a product built on top of the AI SDK. The Gateway allows developers to switch between approximately 100 AI models without managing API keys, rate limits, or provider accounts. It handles authentication and usage tracking, with future plans for billing. The primary technical benefit highlighted is the ability to load balance across providers and fail over in case of downtime or performance degradation, leveraging Vercel's experience scaling v0. The post also details the tight integration with the AI SDK's features like tool calling and streaming.