AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation
Vercel's AI Gateway now lets video generation run async—no more hung requests. Webhook, poll, or start-and-retrieve later.
Why it matters
A critical infrastructure feature for production AI apps: asynchronous video generation eliminates timeout failures and enables better scaling patterns for long-running workloads. Practitioners building video features into products need this.
The key facts
14 to knowVercel AI Gateway adds async video generation support
Four options: webhook delivery, polling, start-and-retrieve, or streaming (generateVideo default behavior preserved)
Solves timeout problem for video jobs taking seconds to minutes
Works with text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video inputs
Operations are JSON-serializable for database/queue storage
Monitoring via AI Gateway Logs with async-only filter
Requires latest AI SDK and AI Gateway provider versions
URL or inline bytes returned; hosted URLs can expire
Vercel AI Gateway adds asynchronous video generation support
Four workflow options: webhook, polling, deferred retrieval (startVideo/getVideoStatus), and standard generateVideo (unchanged)
Addresses multi-second/multi-minute video generation timeouts in synchronous HTTP requests
Async jobs appear in AI Gateway Logs; operations are JSON-serializable for database/queue storage
SDK auto-downloads provider-hosted videos for webhook/polling workflows; getVideoStatus returns provider URLs (which can expire)
Feature requires latest AI SDK and AI Gateway provider versions
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: on AI Gateway can now run asynchronously. Video generation By default, keeps one HTTP request to AI Gateway open until the result is ready. Because video generation can take seconds or minutes, that request can exceed request timeouts.generateVideo With asynchronous generation, your application can…