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Z.ai's GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air are now supported in Vercel AI Gateway

Z.ai's GLM-4.5 models now ship through Vercel AI Gateway—one API, no extra provider accounts needed.

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Why it matters

Vercel expands AI Gateway integrations to include Z.ai's flagship reasoning and coding models, lowering friction for developers building multi-model applications. This reflects consolidation around unified API layers as the standard for production AI deployment.

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  1. Z.ai GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air now available via Vercel AI Gateway

  2. Single unified API removes need for separate provider accounts

  3. AI Gateway features: observability, BYOK support, intelligent provider routing, automatic retries

  4. Integration requires AI SDK v5 with single string model update

  5. Published July 29, 2025

  6. Z.ai GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air now integrated into Vercel AI Gateway

  7. Unified API eliminates need for separate provider accounts

  8. Includes observability, Bring Your Own Key support, and intelligent provider routing

  9. AI SDK v5 required; models callable via zai/glm-4.5 and zai/glm-4.5-air strings

  10. Built-in automatic retries and failover for higher uptime

  11. Z.ai positioning models as 'frontier reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities'

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Publisher excerpt: You can now access , new flagship models from designed to unify frontier reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities, using Vercel's with no other provider accounts required.GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 AirZ.aiAI Gateway AI Gateway lets you call the model with a consistent unified API and just a single…
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