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Unified reporting for all AI Gateway usage

One AI platform saved $80K by consolidating cost tracking. Vercel's new Custom Reporting API just made multi-provider spend visibility standard.

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Why it matters

As AI features scale across multiple models and providers, unified cost tracking moves from nice-to-have to operational necessity. Vercel's Custom Reporting API lets teams attribute spend to features, customers, and pricing tiers from a single endpoint—turning reconciliation from a finance headache into a real-time production metric.

The key facts

6 to know
  1. Vercel AI Gateway Custom Reporting API now in beta for Pro and Enterprise plans

  2. 200K+ users on one platform consolidated third-party proxy, saved $80K

  3. Reports available across cost, token usage, request volume by model, provider, user ID, custom tag, credential type

  4. Works with AI SDK, Chat Completions API, Responses API, Anthropic Messages API

  5. Supports both BYOK and system credentials in single reporting endpoint

  6. Enables per-feature, per-customer, per-pricing-tier cost tracking and unit economics analysis

Go to the source

Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: If you're shipping AI features, you already have usage data. The problem is that it's split across providers, keys, and dashboards, so it's hard to answer basic questions before the bill shows up. You've probably felt the drift into after-the-fact reconciliation. Provider consoles only show their…
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