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Image-only models available in Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel just unified 13 image generation models under one API. No more juggling provider accounts.

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Why it matters

Vercel AI Gateway expands to image-only models from Black Forest Labs and Google, reducing developer friction by consolidating model access, cost tracking, and failover logic in a single interface. This matters for teams building image-heavy AI products.

The key facts

9 to know
  1. 13 image-only models now available via Vercel AI Gateway (FLUX variants from Black Forest Labs, Imagen variants from Google)

  2. No additional provider accounts required

  3. Unified API provides observability, cost tracking, intelligent provider routing, and automatic retries

  4. Models include FLUX.2 Flex, FLUX.2 Pro, Imagen 4.0 variants (Generate, Fast Generate, Ultra Generate)

  5. Supports bring-your-own-key authentication

  6. Vercel AI Gateway now supports image-only models from Black Forest Labs (FLUX.2, FLUX.1 variants) and Google (Imagen 4.0 variants)

  7. Single unified API eliminates need for separate provider accounts

  8. Built-in observability, cost tracking, provider routing, and intelligent retries

  9. Models include FLUX.2 Pro, FLUX.1 Kontext Max, Imagen 4.0 Ultra Generate

Go to the source

Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: You can now access image-only models via Vercel's with no other provider accounts required. In addition to multimodal models with image generation capabilities that are currently available in AI Gateway (e.g., , , etc.), these image-only models are exclusively for image generation. The models…
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