AI SDK

by Vercel Inc. Agent framework in Agent frameworks & SDKs

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Vercel Inc. · ai-sdk.dev since 2024 · status page · who's behind it

Open-source TypeScript toolkit from Vercel for building AI applications and agents, with a provider-agnostic API, a ToolLoopAgent, an MCP client and UI hooks for React, Vue, Svelte and Angular.

Best for TypeScript teams building agents and chat UIs who want one API across many providers and a short path to MCP.

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Assessment. A TypeScript agent toolkit with ToolLoopAgent, a built-in MCP client, per-tool approvals that can be HMAC-signed, opt-in OpenTelemetry and durable runs through WorkflowAgent. It ships three major versions in 14 months (5.0, 6.0, 7.0), each with a migration guide, and plain string model IDs route through Vercel's AI Gateway unless another provider is set.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Auth
API key
Pricing
Free · Free · OSS
x402
No
Licence
Apache-2.0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
Packages
npm ai
npm @ai-sdk/mcp
npm @ai-sdk/workflow
llms.txt
published
Last release
GitHub stars
28k
npm / week
44.9M
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
Languages
TypeScript and JavaScript, Node 22 or newer for ai 7.x
Models
Provider packages for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon Bedrock and others, or any model through the AI Gateway
MCP client
@ai-sdk/mcp 2.0.91, HTTP (recommended), SSE and stdio (experimental) transports, OAuth, opt-in retries for tools/call, stateless MCP 2026-07-28
Multi-agent
Subagents run as tools of a parent agent
Durable state
WorkflowAgent in @ai-sdk/workflow, each tool call a durable workflow step
Human approval
toolApproval per tool or per request, HMAC-signed approvals, Open Policy Agent rules in @ai-sdk/policy-opa
Guardrails
None built in. Middleware and prepareStep can filter
Tracing
OpenTelemetry through @ai-sdk/otel
Telemetry
None until an integration is registered
Releases in 90 days
226 stable releases of ai on npm to 6 November 2026

Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • Apache 2.0, with 246 npm releases of ai in the 90 days to 6 October 2026
  • MCP client in @ai-sdk/mcp with HTTP, SSE and stdio transports, OAuth and opt-in retries for tools/call
  • Per-tool approvals, HMAC-signed approvals and Open Policy Agent rules in @ai-sdk/policy-opa
  • Telemetry only after an OpenTelemetry integration is registered, with recordInputs and recordOutputs switches
  • Tool search with deferred loading, so the model sees only a search tool until it needs more

Weaknesses

  • TypeScript only, and ai 7.x needs Node 22 or newer
  • Three major versions between July 2025 and June 2026, each with breaking changes
  • String model IDs go to Vercel's AI Gateway by default, which needs a Vercel key
  • No input or output guardrail primitive, and sandboxes and stdio MCP transport are still experimental
  • 1,399 open issues and pull requests on 4 October 2026, per a GitHub mirror

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Pass a provider instance such as openai('model') if traffic shouldn't go through Vercel's AI Gateway
  2. Set toolApproval on tools that write, and experimental_toolApprovalSecret when approvals come back from a browser
  3. Raise or replace the default stop condition of 20 steps with stopWhen
  4. Close the MCP client after the run, and use HTTP transport outside local development
  5. Set recordInputs and recordOutputs to false when spans would carry secrets

Who's behind it provenance 91/100

  • Legal entity namedVercel Inc.20/20
  • Domain ageai-sdk.dev, registered 2024-09-26 (2 years)7/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
  • Terms of serviceread, states 7 of the 7 things a reader expects10/10
  • Privacy policyread, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects9.3/10
  • Status pagewww.vercel-status.com10/10
  • Changelogpublished10/10
  • security.txtvalid10/10
  • People named2 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
  • Support routea support address, help pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service dated 2026-06-01, states 7 of 7, 3 to know

TL;DR Dated 2026-06-01. States all 7 things a reader expects. To know before relying on it, model training with an opt-out, cut-off without notice or for any reason and arbitration or a class action waiver.

Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and gives an opt-out
In addition, if you are on a Hobby plan or trial Pro plan, you agree that we may use Your Content to train our artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning models, and we may share Your Content with third parties for the purpose of developing and improving their products, including training and improving their…

Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.

Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason
We may shut down and terminate projects or deployments using the Hobby plan without notice for any reason or no reason.

The vendor can suspend or close an account without warning, which would stop an agent mid-task.

Requires arbitration or waives class actions
You and Vercel agree that any Claim will be settled by final and binding arbitration, using the English language, administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures (the "JAMS Rules").

Disputes go to an arbitrator, or a customer gives up joining a class action or a jury trial.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-06-01
Last Updated June 1, 2026

Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.

Names the governing law or courts The law of the State of California
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.

States a limit on its liability
IN THESE STATES, VERCEL'S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.

Says how the agreement or account can be ended
Subject to earlier termination as provided below, Vercel may terminate your account and this Agreement at any time by providing thirty (30) days prior notice to the administrative email address associated with your account.

Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.

Says how changes to the terms are announced Says it gives notice of a change
Vercel may change this Agreement from time to time by providing notice either by emailing the email address associated with your account or by posting a notice at https://vercel.com.

Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.

Lists what users may not do
If you do not have such authority, or if you do not agree with this Agreement, you must not accept this Agreement and may not use the Services.

The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.

Refers to a service level or uptime commitment
Vercel's warranties, indemnities and SLA terms do not apply to Previews and Support Services are not provided for Previews.

Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.

A customer that lets its own or a third party's AI tools or agents access the service agrees to be legally bound by the actions those tools take on its behalf.
you authorize and agree to be legally bound by the actions taken on your behalf by those Third Party Tools

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

During the agreement Vercel may use the customer's trademarks, trade names and logos in its marketing materials and websites and name it as a customer.
During the term of this Agreement, you grant Vercel a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid up license to use and reproduce your trademarks, trade names and logos in Vercel's marketing materials and website(s) and to indicate that you are a Vercel customer.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The licence over customer content is sublicensable and transferable and covers improving the services and developing new products and services.
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, store, perform, and create derivatives of Your Content to provide and improve the Services, develop new products and services

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The document · read 2026-10-08 · 8,171 words

Privacy policy dated 2026-06-01, states 7 of 8, 2 to know

TL;DR Dated 2026-06-01. States 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find how long data is kept. To know before relying on it, model training with an opt-out and selling or sharing data for advertising.

Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and gives an opt-out
Services, such as when we use your information to train the AI models

Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.

Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising
We engage with several partners, such as third-party advertising networks, integration service partners, event sponsors, and resellers. We may share information with them to provide and support our Services, and to conduct our Advertising and Marketing Activities.

Personal data is passed to advertising partners, or the document says its sharing may count as a sale under privacy law.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-06-01
Last Updated June 1, 2026

Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.

Says what personal data is collected
The information that we collect depends on your interactions with us, the choices that you make, the products and features you use, your location, and applicable laws.

The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.

Says how long data is kept

Not found in the text.

Says when data sent to the service is deleted.

Says who else receives the data
We receive information about Customers from third parties or Vercel partners that provide services or support our business operations.

Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.

Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
We advertise our Services through third parties, and may use cookies and other tracking technologies to support targeted advertising and serve relevant ads.

A plain statement either way.

Says what rights people have over their data
You have the right to withdraw consent where you have provided your consent for us to process your personal information.

Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.

Gives a privacy contact privacy@vercel.com
If you have questions about this Notice, please contact us at privacy@vercel.com or write to us:

An address or officer to send a request to.

Says where data is transferred or stored Relies on standard contractual clauses
To the extent required by applicable law, whenever we transfer your information, we take the appropriate steps to protect your information, including the use of standard contractual clauses or other appropriate legal mechanisms.

The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.

For Hobby and Pro plans, subject to team settings, Vercel may disclose de-identified information to AI business partners for training and improving their models.
we may disclose de-identified information (including de-identified AI Product Information) to AI business partners for their product improvement and development, including training and improving AI and machine learning models

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The document · read 2026-10-08 · 7,867 words

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

The privacy notice (effective 1 June 2026) names Vercel Inc.

vercel.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and responsible.disclosure@vercel.com and expires 2027-09-28.

RDAP gives ai-sdk.dev a registration date of 2024-09-26 and vercel.com 1999-10-04.

The status page covers Vercel's hosted services, including the AI Gateway, not the library.

Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Vercel's about page, read on 28 October 2026, lists its individual investors but no leaders. Its press page calls Guillermo Rauch Vercel's CEO and Malte Ubl its CTO, and blog bylines give Rauch as CEO and Founder, Vercel (Series F post, 30 September 2025) and Ubl as CTO, Vercel. Wikipedia names Rauch as the sole founder of the company, which began as ZEIT in 2015. Product people named on single listings are left as they are. Copied from the Vercel AI Gateway listing (checked 28 October 2026) for the AI SDK on 6 November 2026, without the AI Gateway product manager. No AI SDK maintainer was added, since none was confirmed from a first-hand page in this pass. On 6 November 2026 SiliconANGLE's Series F report added BlackRock, StepStone and Khosla Ventures as new investors in that round. The total raised is left out: the last figure Vercel states is $313M, in its Series D post of November 2021, and no first-hand or reputable source read states a total after the Series E and F rounds (only trackers the rules exclude do). No round after the Series F was found in Vercel's sitemap. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (10)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:35 UTC

  • Vendor status page all systems normal, All Systems Operational · 4 minutes ago
  • github vercel/ai @ai-sdk/zai@2.0.19, released 2026-11-06
  • npm @ai-sdk/mcp 2.0.92
  • npm @ai-sdk/workflow 2.0.96
  • npm ai 7.0.164
  • GitHub stars 28k
  • npm downloads a week 44.9M
  • security.txt none · 1 hour ago
  • llms.txt not answering (HTTP 0) · 2 hours ago

Pages we watch

PageKindLast checkedLast changed
raw.githubusercontent.com/vercel/ai/main/packages/ai/CHANGE…changelog3 hours ago · 200no change seen

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/vercel-ai-sdk.json

Notable

  • ai 7.0.163 on npm on 2026-11-05, with 226 stable releases across 7.x, 6.x and 5.x in the 90 days to 6 November 2026, and 6.x and 5.x still patched under the ai-v6 and ai-v5 tags source
  • Majors 5.0 (2025-07-31), 6.0 (2025-12-22) and 7.0 (2026-06-25), each with a migration guide, and codemods where possible per the versioning page source
  • String model IDs resolve through the AI Gateway when no default provider is set source
  • Telemetry needs @ai-sdk/otel and registerTelemetry(), and inputs and outputs are recorded unless switched off source
  • Two low-severity advisories in the last 12 months, GHSA-rwvc-j5jr-mgvh (2025-11-07, ai) and GHSA-866g-f22w-33x8 (2026-05-18, @ai-sdk/provider-utils), both fixed, and none new to 6 November 2026 source

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 16%20 18.6
Official npm packages, with ai 7.x requiring Node 22 or newer (20). A public CI workflow with lint, type checks, unit tests, Node-version tests, MCP tests on Windows and e2e tests runs on every push to main, and the newest completed CI runs on main passed on 6 November (25). 1,517 open issues and pull requests on 6 November from GitHub's API, with 1,059 issues opened in the 90 days to 3 November; 47 of the 50 newest had a comment and 32 were closed (18). A written versioning page with breaking changes only in majors, experimental_ prefixes for unstable APIs and a migration guide per major (15). 7.0.163 (15). 20+25+18+15+15 = 93, up from 73 on 6 October, when GitHub couldn't be read.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 13%16.2 16.2
Typed TypeScript API with a reference section for every function (25). llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each page (10). The docs say when to use each piece, such as a table of WorkflowAgent against ToolLoopAgent, a when-to-use section for subagents and harnesses, and HTTP over stdio for MCP in production (20). Tools take Zod or JSON Schema inputs (15). 38 error types documented in the reference, with error-handling guides and examples throughout (15). Versioning page and a changesets CHANGELOG per package (15).
Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 13%16.2 15.4
An MCP client in a few lines with createMCPClient and client.tools(), and tool search with deferLoading keeps unused tool definitions out of the prompt (25). stopWhen with a default of 20 steps, and prepareStep to trim messages, switch models or limit active tools per step (20). 38 typed errors with isInstance guards, and MCP results with isError go back to the model (20). maxRetries on model calls, opt-in retries for transient MCP failures only, and WorkflowAgent for durable steps with automatic retries (20). Few required parameters, but TypeScript only, and a string model ID needs an AI Gateway key unless a default provider is set (10).
Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 14%17.5 15.8
No telemetry until an OpenTelemetry integration is registered. String model IDs route to Vercel's AI Gateway by default, which is documented and needs a Vercel key, so it isn't silent (25). Per-tool approval, HMAC-signed approvals against forged client history, and Open Policy Agent rules in @ai-sdk/policy-opa, though sandboxes are experimental (20). ToolLoopAgent rejects system messages in prompts by default as an injection risk, URL fetches are checked against private addresses, and MCP HTTP transport refuses redirects by default, but there's no guardrail primitive (10). OpenTelemetry spans for every model and tool call to any backend, opt-in (15). HackerOne programme, a valid security.txt, SECURITY.md and two low-severity advisories published with fixed versions (20). Framework reading, so SOC 2 isn't scored.
Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 10%12.5 7.5
No payment protocol (0). Scored on the AI Gateway, the paid option, which charges providers' list prices with no markup and lists per-model rates and add-on prices without a login (20). The Apache 2.0 package installs with no card (20) and no account, and provider packages run any model, including local ones (20).
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 7%8.8 8.5
7.0.163 on 2026-11-05 (30). 226 stable npm releases of ai across the 7.x, 6.x and 5.x lines in the 90 days to 6 November, 70 of them since 6 October (20). 47 of the 50 newest issues commented and 32 closed, with triage automation and backport workflows (22). ai and the provider packages are current, and 6.x and 5.x still get patches (15). Dependabot configured and CI passing on main (10). 30+20+22+15+10 = 97.
Transparency & trusteditorial 86, provenance 91checked 6 November 2026 7%8.8 7.8
Apache 2.0 (30). The library stores nothing. The AI Gateway's ZDR page says it doesn't retain prompts or outputs and per-request ZDR is available on Pro and Enterprise, and Vercel's privacy notice is dated 1 June 2026, but we didn't read a DPA or subprocessor list (22). Deprecated APIs are removed only at majors with a migration guide, and 6.x and 5.x keep getting releases, without a written support window (14). Telemetry is opt-in and documented, with switches for inputs and outputs (20).
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total89.8 · AA

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  1. Graded 89.8 AA methodology v0.7

Fix list 11 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on AI SDK. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • Changed since 6 October 2026 (rechecked 6 November). ai went from 7.0.128 to 7.0.163 (5 November) and @ai-sdk/mcp from 2.0.67 to 2.0.91, with 6.x and 5.x still patched; no new advisory on OSV for ai or @ai-sdk packages; telemetry still opt-in through @ai-sdk/otel; versioning page, licence, AI Gateway pricing and Vercel's security.txt unchanged. GitHub's API answered this time, so CI on main and issue activity were read first-hand (reliability 73 to 93, maintenance 84 to 97); other scores unchanged
  • We didn't read Vercel's DPA or subprocessor list for the AI Gateway
  • The AI Gateway pricing page read on 6 November says free credits cover a subset of models with lower rate limits, without stating the monthly amount

Sources 16

  1. npm registry document for ai (versions and dates) registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
  2. npm weekly downloads api.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
  3. repository clone (docs, CI workflow, SECURITY.md, CHANGELOG) github.com · seen 2026-10-06
  4. versioning ai-sdk.dev · seen 2026-11-06
  5. MCP tools ai-sdk.dev · seen 2026-10-06
  6. telemetry ai-sdk.dev · seen 2026-11-06
  7. tool approvals ai-sdk.dev · seen 2026-10-06
  8. WorkflowAgent ai-sdk.dev · seen 2026-10-06
  9. llms.txt ai-sdk.dev · seen 2026-11-06
  10. AI Gateway pricing vercel.com · seen 2026-11-06
  11. AI Gateway zero data retention vercel.com · seen 2026-10-06
  12. security.txt vercel.com · seen 2026-11-06
  13. privacy notice vercel.com · seen 2026-10-06
  14. OSV advisories for @ai-sdk/provider-utils osv.dev · seen 2026-11-06
  15. npm registry document for @ai-sdk/mcp registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
  16. GitHub API, repository, issues and Actions runs on main api.github.com · seen 2026-11-06

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Pricing & changes

Free Free · OSS Free and open source. You pay for model calls. The optional AI Gateway charges providers' list prices with no markup, from prepaid credits, with a free monthly credit on a subset of models (https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing, checked 2026-11-06).

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