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Claude Opus 4.5 now available in Vercel AI Gateway

Claude Opus 4.5 just landed in Vercel AI Gateway. No new provider account needed.

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Why it matters

Anthropic's latest reasoning model is now accessible through Vercel's unified API layer, lowering friction for developers to integrate advanced AI capabilities into production applications without managing separate accounts.

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9 to know
  1. Claude Opus 4.5 available via Vercel AI Gateway

  2. New 'effort' parameter controls token usage across all token types

  3. Model optimized for reasoning, coding tasks, and agentic workflows with computer use and tool use

  4. Vercel AI Gateway provides unified API, observability, BYOK support, and intelligent provider routing

  5. Integration via AI SDK with provider-specific configuration

  6. Claude Opus 4.5 now accessible via Vercel AI Gateway

  7. Model excels at reasoning, vision, coding, and agentic workflows with tool/computer use

  8. AI Gateway provides unified API, observability, BYOK support, intelligent provider routing, and automatic retries

  9. Available in Vercel AI SDK and playground

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Publisher excerpt: You can now access Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 4.5, via Vercel's with no other provider accounts required.AI Gateway Claude Opus 4.5 is suited for demanding reasoning tasks and complex problem solving. This model has improvements in general intelligence and vision compared to previous…
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