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There is a long-standing myth that serverless compute inherently requires more connections to traditional databases. The real issue is not the number of connections needed during normal operation, but that some serverless platforms can leak connections when functions are suspended. In this post, we show why this belief is incorrect, explain the actual cause of the problem, and provide a straightforward, simple-to-use solution. Read more Continue reading...

You can now access Vercel's Runtime Cache via API. The Runtime Cache is an ephemeral cache for storing and retrieving data across Functions, Routing Middleware, and Builds within the same region. It supports tag-based invalidation for precise and efficient cache control. You can get started with the API like this: You can monitor hit rates, invalidation patterns, and storage usage across your applications in the Observability dashboard's Runtime Cache tab. Runtime Cache reads and writes are billed regionally based on the runtime region. Read more Continue reading...

Coxwave helps enterprises build GenAI products that work at scale. With their consulting arm, AX, and their analytics platform, Align, they support some of the world’s most technically sophisticated companies, including Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, and PwC. Since the company’s founding in 2021, speed has been a defining trait. But speed doesn’t just mean fast models. For Coxwave, it means fast iteration, fast validation, and fast value delivery. To meet that bar, Coxwave reimagined their web app strategy with Next.js and Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

Vercel AI Gateway now supports automatic credit recharging (top-ups), optionally refilling your balance before it runs out to keep your apps running without interruption. Auto-recharge is off by default and can be enabled or updated anytime in the AI Gateway dashboard or team billing settings. Set your top-up amount and trigger balance, optionally add a monthly spend limit, and your credits will automatically refill. Learn more about AI Gateway. Read more Continue reading...

You can now leverage Claude Sonnet 4's updated 1 million-token context window with Vercel's AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required. This release from Anthropic enables significantly larger inputs such as full codebases (~75,000+ lines) or large document sets. AI Gateway lets you call the model with a consistent unified API and just a single string update, track usage and cost, and configure performance optimizations, retries, and failover for higher than provider-average uptime. To use it with the AI SDK v5, start by installing the package: Then set the model to anthropic/claude-4-sonnet: Includes built-in observability, Bring Your Own Key support, and intelligent provider routing with automatic retries. To deliver...

Vercel's bot verification system now supports Web Bot Auth, a proposal that leverages HTTP Message Signatures, enabling Vercel to verify traffic automation from dynamic and distributed sources. Vercel maintains a comprehensive and actively curated directory of known bots that are verified by IP, reverse DNS, and now Web Bot Auth, which verifies bots via public-key cryptography in signed headers. This ensures that legitimate automation, like SEO crawlers, performance monitoring tools, and platform-integrated AI bots, can reliably access your site, while spoofed bots are blocked. Web Bot Auth's asymmetric signature proves the authenticity of the traffic regardless of its network origin, making it ideal for bots running in dynamic or...

Starting in botid@1.5.0, BotID’s Deep Analysis mode provides authenticated information for verified bots based on Vercel's directory of known and verified bots. This allows developers to detect verified bots in real time and make programmatic decisions based on bot identity. This allows you to securely allow known bots that are good for your business (such as agentic bots that purchase on behalf of users) while blocking others bots and sophisticated abuse. BotID is an invisible CAPTCHA that classifies sophisticated bots without interrupting real users. With this update, developers using Deep Analysis now get additional context about the bot itself, such as source IP range, reverse DNS, and user-agent validation, helping teams...

Ready.net is a core platform that helps utility companies manage their financing and compliance, the company works with a wide network of state-level stakeholders. New feature requirements come in fast, often vague, and always critical. With limited design resources supporting three teams, the company needed a way to speed up the loop between ideation, validation, and delivery. That’s where v0 came in. Read more Continue reading...

With a single prompt, anyone can go from idea to deployed app with UI, content, backend, and logic included. v0 is now agentic, helping you research, reason, and plan. It can collaborate with you or take on the work end-to-end. From product managers writing specs to recruiters launching job boards, v0 is changing how teams operate. Read more Continue reading...

You can now use Cursor with Vercel MCP, our official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. To ensure secure access, Vercel MCP currently supports AI clients that have been reviewed and approved by Vercel. With Vercel MCP you can explore projects, inspect failed deployments, fetch logs, and more, now all without leaving Cursor. To connect, either use click here for a one-click setup or add the following to your .cursor/mcp.json: Once added, Cursor will prompt you to log in with your Vercel account. Read more about using Cursor in Vercel MCP. Read more Continue reading...

In April, we launched the Vercel Open Source Program, a developer initiative that gives maintainers the resources, credits, and support they need to ship faster and scale confidently, starting with the spring 2025 cohort. We're now honored to announce the summer 2025 cohort. From AI-powered calendars to beautifully styled React Native components, open source builders continue to amaze us. Here are the 28 projects from the summer cohort. Read more Continue reading...

Zapier is the leading AI orchestration platform, helping businesses turn intelligent insights into automated actions across nearly 8,000 apps. As AI tools and agents become more capable, Zapier provides the connective tissue to operationalize them, bridging the gap between decision and execution. Powered by Zapier extends this capability to partners. It enables SaaS and AI companies to embed Zapier’s automation engine directly into their products without needing to build or maintain thousands of integrations in-house. But explaining to partners what that experience can look like in their product was a challenge. Needing to move quickly with finite resources, the Zapier team could take a few weeks to design and build a clickable...

Team owners and members can now upgrade all projects using Node.js 18 or earlier to Node.js 22 with one click in the Vercel Dashboard. This updates the Node.js version in project settings. If your project also defines a version in package.json, you'll need to update it manually. Existing deployments are not affected. View and upgrade deprecated Node.js projects now. Read more Continue reading...

Vercel now supports the vlt package manager for builds with zero configuration in builds. Starting today, Projects that contain a vlt-lock.json file will automatically run vlt install as the default Install Command using vlt. vlt requires node 20.x to run and is only available in the modern build image. Learn more about package manager support on Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

We’ve improved the metrics search and navigation experience in Vercel Observability, making it faster and easier to build custom queries. You can now: Quickly find metrics by typing partial names or common abbreviations like TTFB for "time to first byte" Browse all available metrics for an event in a side-by-side view Use keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation Access an optimized interface on mobile devices These updates are available now for all teams with Observability Plus. Try it out or learn more about Observability and Observability Plus. Read more Continue reading...

You can now access GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, and GPT-5-nano by OpenAI, models designed to push the frontier of reasoning and domain expertise, using Vercel's AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required. AI Gateway lets you call the model with a consistent unified API and just a single string update, track usage and cost, and configure performance optimizations, retries, and failover for higher than provider-average uptime. To use it with the AI SDK v5, start by installing the package: Then set the model to either openai/gpt-5 or openai/gpt-5-mini or openai/gpt-5-nano: Includes built-in observability, Bring Your Own Key support, and intelligent provider routing with automatic retries. Learn more about AI Gateway and view the new...

The GPT-5 family of models released today, are now available through AI Gateway and are in production on v0.dev. Thanks to OpenAI, Vercel has been testing these models for a few weeks in v0, Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Sandbox. From our testing, GPT-5 is noticeably better at frontend design than previous models. It generates polished, balanced UIs with clean, composable code. Internally, we’ve already begun using GPT-5 for Vercel's in-dashboard Agent and v0.dev/gpt-5. GPT-5 stands out in several ways for building agentic applications. We have been impressed with the long-context reasoning, and parallel tool usage capabilities which were useful for Vercel Agent. Read more Continue reading...

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. Read more Continue reading...

Building AI apps is hard enough, creating great UI should be simple. AI Elements is a new Vercel product that helps frontend engineers ship ChatGPT or v0-like interfaces in minutes, not days. Read more Continue reading...

AI Elements is a new open source library of customizable React components for building interfaces with the Vercel AI SDK. Built on shadcn/ui, it provides full control over UI primitives like message threads, input boxes, reasoning panels, and response actions. For example, you can use useChat from the AI SDK to manage state and streaming, and render responses using AI Elements. Getting started To install the components, you can initialize with our CLI, and pick your components, import them, and start building. Read the docs and start building better AI interfaces, faster. Read more Continue reading...