LLM gateways and observability · RankedVercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway is an LLM gateway that routes application requests to multiple language models, with caching and routing controls · vercel.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Portkey is first at 36%.
LiteLLM is first at 36%.
Bifrost is first at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Vercel AI Gateway if you are using Next.js/AI SDK and want a hands-off, managed solution with excellent built-in monitoring.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“No token markup and includes team, project, and key-level budgets, though some features require paid plans.”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Vercel AI Gateway for applications deeply integrated with Vercel's AI SDK and platform.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Vercel AI Gateway (Best for Simplicity) ... Completely free when using your own API keys”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Exercise caution with OpenRouter, Portkey, Vercel AI Gateway, and similar services”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Vercel AI Gateway, over the 33 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 14 | View → | |
| 31 | 6 | View → | |
| 29 | 1 | View → | |
| 26 | 3 | View → | |
| 20 | 8 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Vercel AI Gateway →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Vercel AI Gateway's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Price stated
- Token Requests: 500 requests / month included, $3.00 per 1,000 requests; Triggers: 1,000 triggers / month included, $0.95 per 1,000 triggers
- Free plan or trial
- 500 requests / month included; 1,000 triggers / month included
- Customers named
- GitBook, General Intelligence, Waldium, Potion, MMM, Hashnode, Super, Dub
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 33 of the 33 answers that named Vercel AI Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
117 of the 128 domain citations in answers naming Vercel AI Gateway came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 829 | undated | Feature flags, CDN | ||
| Blog | 515 | 8 | 2026-09-25 | CDN, Feature flags | |
| Report or ebook | 480 | 3 | 2026-07-27 | CDN, WAF | |
| Glossary or explainer | 457 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | CDN | |
| Conference or event | 244 | 14 | 2026-10-22 | ||
| Case study | 118 | 7 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Comparison | 61 | 17 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 13 | 1 | 2026-07-17 | ||
| News or press | 7 | 1 | 2026-09-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-2927 news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page vercel.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name CDN (11); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.