Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
Pixel Canary hits 96.8% on Next.js tasks. Vercel's coding model is free in stealth on AI Gateway.
Why it matters
Vercel releases a specialized coding model optimized for frontend and mobile development, showing 90.3% baseline performance and near-leaderboard parity when given framework docs. Available free (stealth, limited time) on Vercel's unified AI Gateway with usage tracking and routing—a concrete alternative for teams building with Next.js and React Native.
The key facts
13 to knowPixel Canary: 90.3% baseline success rate on Next.js evals (ties GPT-6 Astra)
96.8% success rate (30 of 31 tasks) when Next.js documentation supplied via AGENTS.md
Scoring metric: pass@4 (task passes if any of 4 attempts succeeds)
Specialization: frontend, mobile app design, App Router migrations, data fetching, image/font optimization, caching, view transitions
Pricing: free for limited time during stealth; ZDR (zero data retention) not available; prompts/responses may be used for training
Integration: set model to stealth/pixel-canary in Vercel CLI; routes through AI Gateway (usage tracking, budgets, routing rules included)
Published: September 25, 2026
Pixel Canary scores 90.3% baseline on Next.js evals (28/31 tasks), matching GPT-6 Astra
With Next.js documentation context, achieves 96.8% (30/31 tasks), tying leaderboard top score
Uses pass@4 scoring: task passes if any of 4 attempts succeeds
Available free in stealth on AI Gateway; training-data reuse permitted, no ZDR
Integrated into Vercel CLI coding agents and model configuration
Focused on frontend development, responsive layouts, App Router migrations, data fetching, image/font optimization, caching
Go to the source
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