AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets
Vercel's AI Gateway now lets teams cap spend at the project level—not just per key. Set it and forget it, or get alerted at 50%, 75%, 100%.
Why it matters
Cost control for teams running multiple AI projects through a gateway. Practitioners managing shared API budgets across teams can now enforce hard limits and avoid surprise overages—a table-stakes feature for production AI deployments.
The key facts
14 to knowSpend budgets now scoped to team, project, or API key
Hard limit: requests rejected once budget exhausted
Email alerts at 50%, 75%, 100% of limit (off by default)
Refresh periods: daily, weekly, monthly, or cumulative
Default budgets inherit to all child scopes unless overridden
BYOK (bring your own key) spend excluded from budgets by default
CLI and dashboard management available
Published July 31, 2026
Budget scopes: team, project, or API key
Requests rejected if ANY budget limit is exceeded
Email alerts at 50%, 75%, 100% of limit (informational, don't block)
Default budgets can be set and inherited automatically
BYOK spend excluded from budget counts by default
Manage via dashboard or CLI
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys. Set a dollar limit on a scope, and the gateway meters spend against it and stops further requests once the limit is reached, until the budget resets or you raise it. A budget attaches to one of…