AI Gateway: Production-ready reliability for your AI apps
Blog post from Vercel
Building an AI app has become significantly quicker with tools like the AI SDK, enabling rapid development of AI frontends and backends. However, production requires reliability and stability at scale, which can be compromised by dependencies on single LLM providers. To address this, AI Gateway offers a solution by ensuring consistent reliability and avoiding rate limits or failures that can arise from provider issues. It allows teams to flexibly switch between AI models without being locked into a single vendor, while handling complexities like authentication, usage tracking, and billing. With zero markup on model prices, AI Gateway is positioned as a transformative tool for inference reliability, backed by Vercel's robust CDN infrastructure, which processes trillions of requests annually. Now generally available, AI Gateway aims to provide a seamless, high-performance developer experience, supporting a wide range of models and facilitating fast, reliable, and scalable AI application development.