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Also resells Z.ai GLM 5.3 at $1.40/$4.40 (https://mistral.ai/pricing/api/).", "priceSummary": "from $0.10 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 769, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai/admin/user-management-finops/tier", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "eu", "open-weights", "free-tier", "openapi", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 141, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 93, "security": 66, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins. Data sent to Labs and preview models, Mistral Large 4 among them since 6 October, may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.", "bestFor": "Teams that need EU processing, open-weight models they can later run themselves, or an API an agent can read from an OpenAPI file.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins", "Minimum 6 months' notice before a GA model retires, and retired ids return 404", "Workspace-scoped API keys with expiry dates, and service accounts bound to workspace roles", "Opt-in EU and US regional endpoints, at 1.1x", "Free Experiment tier with no card, and Batch at half price" ], "weaknesses": [ "Labs and preview models, Large 4 among them, may train on data sent from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting", "The terms don't say whether the paid API trains by default", "Labs, preview and third-party models get only 1 month's notice", "Rate-limit numbers are only in the console, and no SLA found", "17 Completion, Conversations and Batch API incidents on the status page in August 2026, and an elevated error rate for 2 hours 40 minutes on 29 September" ], "agentNotes": [ "Stay off `labs-*` and preview models, `mistral-large-4` included while it is in preview, for anything confidential", "Use the EU endpoint when data has to stay in Europe and budget the 10% uplift", "Treat a 404 on a model id as retirement and read the lifecycle page for the replacement", "Move `zai-glm-5-2` calls to `zai-glm-5-3` before 31 October 2026. 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Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "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.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.min.md", "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" ], "remoteUrl": "https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@ai-sdk/gateway" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "ai" } ], "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", "where": "hosted", "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).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 29597661, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway", "llmsTxt": "https://vercel.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://vercel.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.fast", "inference.decision", "obs.gateway", "obs.traces", "embed.text", "image.generate", "video.generate" ], "tags": [ "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" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 302, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 20, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 79, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "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)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.", "strengths": [ "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "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. 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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" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Vercel Inc.", "domain": "vercel.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-10-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "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", "checked": "2026-10-17", "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. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 24, "edge": "vercel-ai-gateway", "key": "reliability", "mistral-api": 50, "name": "Reliability", "vercel-ai-gateway": 74, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "schema", "mistral-api": 93, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "vercel-ai-gateway": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "ergonomics", "mistral-api": 91, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "vercel-ai-gateway": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "vercel-ai-gateway", "key": "security", "mistral-api": 66, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "vercel-ai-gateway": 79, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "payments", "mistral-api": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "vercel-ai-gateway": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "maintenance", "mistral-api": 88, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "vercel-ai-gateway": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "transparency", "mistral-api": 80, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "vercel-ai-gateway": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Vercel AI Gateway's 66.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "mistral-api": "Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins. Data sent to Labs and preview models, Mistral Large 4 among them since 6 October, may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md" }, "markdown": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Vercel AI Gateway's 66.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Mistral AI API: grade BB, 71.2/100, rank #141 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-api.json\n- Vercel AI Gateway: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #302 of 1133. 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### Mistral AI API (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams that need EU processing, open-weight models they can later run themselves, or an API an agent can read from an OpenAPI file.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 74\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 83\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.0 against 3.0 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Vercel AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Labs and preview models, Large 4 among them, may train on data sent from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting\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 50\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 66\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 | Mistral AI API | Vercel AI Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +24 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 74 | Mistral AI API +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 83 | Mistral AI API +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Mistral AI API +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 79 | Mistral AI API +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 70 | Mistral AI API +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.2 · BB** | **66.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mistral AI API | Vercel AI Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Mistral AI | Vercel Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1` | `https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | 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 | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-25 | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-06-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 769 stars | 29.6M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Mistral AI API.** Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins. Data sent to Labs and preview models, Mistral Large 4 among them since 6 October, may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.\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### Mistral AI API\n\n1. Stay off `labs-*` and preview models, `mistral-large-4` included while it is in preview, for anything confidential\n2. Use the EU endpoint when data has to stay in Europe and budget the 10% uplift\n3. Treat a 404 on a model id as retirement and read the lifecycle page for the replacement\n4. Move `zai-glm-5-2` calls to `zai-glm-5-3` before 31 October 2026. The price is the same\n5. Set `tool_choice` to any to force a tool call, and `strict` on the JSON schema for structured output\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, Mistral AI API or Vercel AI Gateway?\n\nMistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Vercel AI Gateway's 66.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Mistral AI API and Vercel AI Gateway need an API key?\n\nMistral AI API needs an API key. Vercel AI Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Mistral AI API and Vercel AI Gateway without installing anything?\n\nYes. Mistral AI API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mistral.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/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mistral-api\", \"b\": \"vercel-ai-gateway\"}`. 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