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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Meta Model API is Meta's pay-as-you-go API for its hosted Muse models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, through OpenAI-style Responses and Chat Completions endpoints and an Anthropic-style Messages endpoint, plus image, speech and segmentation routes.",
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        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.meta.ai/v1",
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      "authNotes": "A bearer API key created on the API keys tab of the Model API dashboard after a browser sign-up with email, mobile number, Facebook, Google or GitHub. Keys belong to a team, are shown once and are revoked by deletion. No key scopes were found, and every key on a team shares the team's rate limits.",
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      "pricingNotes": "Muse Wonder is $4.00 per million input tokens, $0.20 cached and $20.00 per million output tokens, Standard mode only (checked 2026-10-12). Muse Spark is $1.25, $0.15 and $4.25, or $0.10, $0.002 and $0.20 in Contributor mode, where Meta may train on the content. Billed in arrears to a card. No free allowance was found.",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in dev.meta.ai/llms.txt, the pricing page, the API reference or the billing help pages, checked 12 October 2026. Usage is charged to a card at a payment threshold or on the 1st of each month.",
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        "speech.streaming"
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        "official",
        "hosted",
        "model",
        "usage-priced",
        "closed-source",
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        "multimodal",
        "streaming",
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        "methodology": "0.4",
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          "Muse Wonder and Muse Spark take text, image, video, audio and PDF input with a 1,048,576-token context window",
          "Per-token prices, per-model rate limits and rate-limit headers published without a login",
          "Content sent in Standard mode is not used to train Meta models, and training use is opt-in through `-contributor` model IDs",
          "Responses, Chat Completions and Messages endpoints, so the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a base-URL change",
          "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page, with an error guide that gives the Retry-After value for each retryable error"
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          "Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found",
          "No free API allowance found, and billing is set up with a card",
          "No status page with history. The docs' status link redirects to the home page, and `/v1/status` reports only the current state",
          "`tool_choice` accepts only `auto`, so a call can't be forced or ruled out",
          "No OpenAPI file, batch endpoint or Model API changelog found, and API keys have no scopes"
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          "Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests",
          "Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content",
          "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key",
          "Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`",
          "Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported"
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          "measured": false
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 60,
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          "transparency": 41
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        "muse-code"
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          "item": "Muse Wonder input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 4,
          "note": "Standard mode, muse-wonder-1.0. No long-context premium."
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        {
          "item": "Muse Wonder cached input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
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        {
          "item": "Muse Wonder output",
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        {
          "item": "Muse Spark input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 1.25,
          "note": "Standard mode, muse-spark-1.3, 1.2 and 1.1."
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        {
          "item": "Muse Spark cached input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.15
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark output",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark input, Contributor mode",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Meta may use the content to train its models."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark output, Contributor mode",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.2,
          "note": "Cached input is $0.002 per million tokens."
        },
        {
          "item": "Web search grounding",
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          "usd": 2.5,
          "note": "Per 1,000 search queries, on top of token cost."
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        {
          "item": "Muse Image generated image",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.01
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        "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
        "domain": "meta.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/",
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        "changelog": "",
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        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated 9 October 2026) are an agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for users in the European Region. The model card names the same two.",
          "The privacy field is the Meta Privacy Policy, which the terms link. www.facebook.com's robots.txt asks readers like ours not to fetch it, as the 8 October policy reading records, so it wasn't read. The terms also link a subprocessor list at forwork.meta.com/legal/mfw-subprocessor-list/ and the Meta Global Processor Terms, neither of which was read.",
          "RDAP for meta.ai gives a registration date of 16 December 2017. The API answers at api.meta.ai.",
          "No status page. The error guide links dev.meta.ai/status, which redirects to the home page. `GET /v1/status` is an unauthenticated health endpoint with no history.",
          "No Model API changelog was found. The only changelog on dev.meta.ai is Muse Code's.",
          "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. www.meta.ai's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, so its security.txt wasn't requested. www.facebook.com/.well-known/security.txt is valid until 11 November 2026 and points to bugbounty.meta.com.",
          "developer.meta.com/ai/ redirects to dev.meta.ai."
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      "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
      "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
      "vendor": "Vercel Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://vercel.com",
      "kind": "router",
      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Vercel AI Gateway is a hosted router for model APIs. One API key or Vercel OIDC token reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others through OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible and AI SDK interfaces, with budgets, request logs and provider failover.",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/vercel/ai",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "ai"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "ai"
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      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "An AI Gateway API key as a Bearer token from any environment, or a Vercel OIDC token on Vercel deployments (12 hours locally, refreshed with `vercel env pull`). Keys belong to a team, can be limited to one project and given an expiry and a budget, and are created in the dashboard, with the Vercel CLI or by `POST /v1/api-keys` with a Vercel access token. A person creates the Vercel account in a browser. Token Pass needs its own Token Pass API key, and OIDC tokens cannot spend Token Pass credit.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid AI Gateway Credits at each provider's list price, with no markup or platform fee, including BYOK. A monthly free credit covers a subset of models and needs a valid payment method on the team. Credits expire a year after purchase. Add-ons are billed separately, and Token Pass is $30 a team a month on Pro for $80 of credit on two models, in early access (https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing, https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/token-pass, checked 2026-10-17).",
      "priceSummary": "$30 / mo",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the AI Gateway docs, the pricing page, the Token Pass pages or the AI Gateway entries of the changelog sitemap. Payment is by prepaid credits bought with a card, or by invoice on Enterprise (checked 2026-10-17).",
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      "docsUrl": "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway",
      "llmsTxt": "https://vercel.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://vercel.com/openapi.json",
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        "inference.llm",
        "inference.fast",
        "inference.decision",
        "obs.gateway",
        "obs.traces",
        "embed.text",
        "image.generate",
        "video.generate"
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        "hosted",
        "router",
        "usage-based",
        "prepaid",
        "free-tier",
        "openai-compatible",
        "anthropic-compatible",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "oidc",
        "cli",
        "early-access",
        "status-page",
        "bug-bounty",
        "soc2",
        "iso27001"
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          "reliability": 74,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 70
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
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        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "April 2026. Vercel's security bulletin says an attacker took over an employee's account through a compromised third-party AI tool, reached internal systems and decrypted non-sensitive environment variables of a limited subset of customers. AI Gateway was generally available then, and its docs have deployments keep AI Gateway and Token Pass API keys as environment variables. The bulletin documents remediation and marks the incident closed on 16 October 2026, so 3 of a possible 15 is taken, as for vercel-connect (https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident)."
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        "bestFor": "Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.",
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          "Token prices are each provider's list price with no markup or platform fee, including requests made with the customer's own provider keys",
          "The model list at `GET /v1/models` needs no key and gives prices, context windows, supported parameters and ZDR and no-training flags for 474 models",
          "Budgets per team, project, API key or team member reject spend with a 402, distinct from a 429 rate limit",
          "The gateway logs request metadata only. Prompt and response content is deleted when the request completes, per the FAQ and the ZDR page",
          "Failed provider attempts are retried on a model's other providers, and every routing attempt appears in the request logs"
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          "The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs",
          "No rate-limit numbers are published, and the Enterprise SLA excludes the APIs, so the inference API carries no uptime commitment",
          "The contractual promise not to train on AI Gateway content covers Enterprise subscriptions only. Provider no-training and ZDR filters are opt-in per request",
          "A failed BYOK request falls back to Vercel's credentials and is billed to credits, and the no-training filter is not applied to BYOK",
          "Token Pass is early access for Pro teams only, covers two models, has no failover and fails with a 403 once the $80 credit is spent"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling",
          "Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies",
          "Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it",
          "On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits",
          "Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 4,
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 74,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 55
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pnpm add ai@latest",
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          "item": "Token Pass subscription (Pro teams)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 30,
          "note": "$80 of monthly credit on two featured models. Early access"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team-wide Zero Data Retention",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Pro and Enterprise. Per-request ZDR is free"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team-wide provider allowlist",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Successful requests, Pro and Enterprise"
        },
        {
          "item": "Custom Reporting query",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "Queries to the reporting endpoint"
        },
        {
          "item": "Custom Reporting write of a tag, user ID or quota entity ID",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.075,
          "note": "Each unique value in a request counts as one write"
        },
        {
          "item": "AI Gateway trace delivered to a drain",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.05,
          "note": "Listed per 1,000 traces, Pro and Enterprise"
        },
        {
          "item": "Trace egress",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "Billed through Drains usage"
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        "terms": "https://vercel.com/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://www.vercel-status.com",
        "changelog": "https://vercel.com/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
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        "notes": [
          "The Terms of Service (last updated 1 June 2026) name Vercel Inc. The AI Product Terms (last updated 17 March 2026, effective 31 March 2026) have a section for AI Gateway and form part of those terms.",
          "The Privacy Notice is effective from 1 June 2026. The DPA (effective 31 March 2026) applies to Pro and Enterprise plans.",
          "https://vercel.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and responsible.disclosure@vercel.com and expires 2027-09-28.",
          "The API answers at ai-gateway.vercel.sh, a Vercel domain other than vercel.com. Management calls go to api.vercel.com.",
          "RDAP gives vercel.com a registration date of 1999-10-04, long before Vercel, so the domain was bought later.",
          "AI Gateway is a component on the status page at www.vercel-status.com."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 326 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Meta Model API (D)\n\nGood for: Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Vercel AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found\n\n### Vercel AI Gateway (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 74 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 60\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 64\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 46\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 52\n\nWatch for: The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Meta Model API | Vercel AI Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +34 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 83 | Vercel AI Gateway +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +33 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 70 | Vercel AI Gateway +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.2 · D** | **66.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Meta Model API | Vercel AI Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Meta | Vercel Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` | `https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party. | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated |  | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-06-01 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 29.6M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Meta Model API.** Meta Model API serves Muse Wonder, in preview since 12 October 2026, and Muse Spark with 1M-token context, constrained JSON Schema output, automatic prompt caching and per-token prices published without a login. Standard-mode content is not used for training. There's no free allowance, status history, OpenAPI file, deprecation policy or way to force a tool call.\n\n**Vercel AI Gateway.** Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Meta Model API\n\n1. Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests\n2. Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content\n3. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key\n4. Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`\n5. Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported\n\n### Vercel AI Gateway\n\n1. Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling\n2. Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies\n3. Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it\n4. On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits\n5. Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Meta Model API or Vercel AI Gateway?\n\nVercel AI Gateway scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Meta Model API's 52.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Meta Model API and Vercel AI Gateway need an API key?\n\nMeta Model API needs an API key. Vercel AI Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Meta Model API and Vercel AI Gateway without installing anything?\n\nYes. Meta Model API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.meta.ai/v1 and Vercel AI Gateway at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"meta-model-api\", \"b\": \"vercel-ai-gateway\"}`. 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