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Observability added to AI Gateway alpha

Vercel just made multi-model routing invisible. Now you see the cost of every token, every model, every request.

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Why it matters

Vercel's AI Gateway observability layer removes the black box from multi-model LLM deployments, letting builders optimize for latency, cost, and performance across ~100 models in real time. This is infrastructure-as-a-feature for the app-layer.

The key facts

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  1. Vercel AI Gateway supports ~100 models

  2. New observability dashboard tracks: requests by model, time to first token (TTFT), request duration, input/output token count, cost per request

  3. Observability available across all projects or per-project/per-model drill-down

  4. Cost tracking free during alpha phase

  5. Feature currently in alpha

  6. Vercel AI Gateway alpha supports ~100 models

  7. New observability dashboard tracks: requests by model, time-to-first-token (TTFT), request duration, input/output token counts

  8. Cost-per-request visibility included (free during alpha)

  9. Per-project and per-model drill-down capability

  10. Feature enables direct model performance and latency comparison

  11. Published June 9, 2025

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Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: The , currently in alpha for all users, lets you switch between ~100 AI models without needing to manage API keys, rate limits, or provider accounts.AI Gateway now includes a dedicated AI section to surface metrics related to the AI Gateway. This update introduces visibility into:Vercel…
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