Vercel new features in August 2026

Everything Vercel shipped in August 2026: 104 releases, grouped by product, each linked to Vercel's release notes.

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AI SDK and AI Gateway53

AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 31, 2026

Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway

You can now use AI Gateway budgets to set a dollar spending limit for each user on your team. The limit covers spend from every API key attributed to the user, along with their app tokens. After it's reached, AI Gateway rejects new requests until the budget resets or is increased.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 31, 2026

Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily

Vercel now calculates charges for Sandbox snapshot storage from each day’s average usage and adds them to your monthly invoice. Previously, billing used one average across the entire monthly billing period. You can track these daily charges on the team’s Usage page and see how changes in storage affect your cost.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 31, 2026

fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

The AI SDK harness layer now supports fx , Vercel's lightweight, open-source coding agent. The harness layer provides one API for running coding agents in your application, so you can add fx without building a separate integration.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 30, 2026

MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway

MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway from August 30 through September 13, in partnership with MiniMax. The discount covers requests billed through AI Gateway, at every duration and in every aspect ratio the model supports.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 28, 2026

Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard

You can now create eve agents directly from the Vercel dashboard, giving you a deployed agent that you can chat with right away. The builder scaffolds the agent, creates a private Git repository with its files, and deploys it as a new Vercel project on your team.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 28, 2026

Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway

Hy4 Preview from Tencent is now available on AI Gateway. Hy4 Preview is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 770B total parameters and 49B active per token, aimed at long-horizon coding, document analysis, game development, and scientific reasoning. It serves a context window of 1M tokens.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 28, 2026

Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK

You can now run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK . Claude Managed Agents handles the agent loop server-side, including the model, tools, session state, and sandboxed web research. That means you can ship a Slack research bot built on Claude Managed Agents and Chat SDK, with one persistent session per thread and streamed briefs with sources.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 27, 2026

Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

The AI SDK harness layer now supports Cursor through the official @ai-sdk/harness-cursor adapter. The harness layer lets your application run different coding agents through the same HarnessAgent interface, so you can switch agents without changing your application code.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 27, 2026

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin from Inclusion AI is now available on AI Gateway and free to use through September 25. Ling 3.0 Flash Fin is a finance-focused version of Ling 3.0 Flash . It has a 256K-token context window, produces up to 32K output tokens, and supports reasoning and function calling.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 26, 2026

GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway

GLM 5.3 Flash from Z.ai is now available on AI Gateway as zai/glm-5.3-flash . GLM 5.3 Flash is a multimodal coding model with a 1M-token context window. It accepts both text and image inputs and supports function calling, structured output, and streaming. To include images, pass them with text in a message.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 26, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe from Google is now available on AI Gateway for recorded and live audio: google/gemini-3.5-transcribe transcribes a complete audio file in one request. google/gemini-3.5-transcribe-live transcribes audio over a WebSocket and returns text as the audio arrives.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 26, 2026

Muse Image now available on AI Gateway

Muse Image from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available on AI Gateway. It is their first image model and a separate family from Muse Spark, returning images rather than text. Send a prompt and get an image back, or send an image with an instruction and get it changed. One model does both, so you don't switch models to move from generating to editing.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 26, 2026

Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway

Qwen 3.8 Flash from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway. It takes text and images as input, serves a context window of 1 million tokens, and can return up to 65k tokens in a response. Alibaba recommends it for coding, tool use, and multi-step agent workflows.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 25, 2026

AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation

Video generation on AI Gateway can now run asynchronously. By default, generateVideo keeps one HTTP request to AI Gateway open until the result is ready. Because video generation can take seconds or minutes, that request can exceed request timeouts.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 25, 2026

Bring your agent to Notion with Chat SDK

Your team already works in Notion. Now your agent can too. With the new Notion adapter for Chat SDK, the same agent you run on Slack, Discord, GitHub, Teams, or WhatsApp can join comment discussions on your Notion pages, no separate codebase required.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 25, 2026

MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway

MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway via GMI Cloud through Sunday, September 6. Use minimax/minimax-m3-free or minimax/minimax-m2.7-free to route requests to GMI Cloud. These model IDs will return an error after the free period ends.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 25, 2026

Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway

Wan 3.0 from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway as alibaba/wan-v3.0-video . Wan 3.0 combines text-to-video, image-to-video, first- and last-frame conditioning, and reference-based generation in one model. References can include images, video, and audio. It generates clips up to 30 seconds at 30 fps in 480p, 720p, or 1080p, with synchronized audio.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 24, 2026

Vercel Sandbox is now globally available

Vercel Sandbox now runs globally, starting with four regions: iad1 (Washington, D.C.), sfo1 (San Francisco), cle1 (Cleveland), and cdg1 (Paris). iad1 remains the default. Support for all Vercel regions is coming soon. Choose a region close to the databases, object storage, and other services your sandboxes access to reduce latency.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 21, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway

DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision is now available on AI Gateway. This model is an experimental version that accepts images alongside text. You can ask it to describe a picture, read text out of a screenshot, or work through a chart in the same request as your prompt. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 20, 2026

Vercel Agent is now available in Slack code channels

Vercel Agent now works in Slack code channels, a new kind of channel launched today for working with a coding agent. Anyone in the channel can follow the work, give Agent new instructions, and review the code it writes. Choose Create a code channel from the Slack sidebar, select Vercel as the agent, and describe what you need to get started.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 19, 2026

Exa joins the Vercel AI Gateway and Agent Marketplace

Exa is now available on the Vercel AI Gateway and Agent Marketplace as a native integration. Exa's neural search engine grounds models in current information. Exa search is now a built-in tool on AI Gateway , which runs the search for you without an Exa account of your own.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 19, 2026

Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free

Fish Audio 's audio models are now available on AI Gateway. To celebrate the launch, every Fish Audio model is free on AI Gateway for the next 30 days, through September 18.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 18, 2026

Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

The AI SDK harness layer lets you run established coding-agent runtimes through one unified interface, so you can switch runtimes without changing your application code. Today we are adding Cline, which runs through the same HarnessAgent interface as other supported harness.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 18, 2026

GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway

GLM 5.3 from Z.ai is now available on AI Gateway. GLM 5.3 has improvements vs. GLM 5.2 at complex software engineering and at agent tasks that run across many steps, and it reaches those results while producing fewer output tokens than GLM 5.2 did at the same effort level.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 18, 2026

The Vercel Sandbox CLI is now more agent-friendly

The Sandbox CLI version 4.0.1 ships four output and error improvements: New sandboxes point users towards how to connect into them. A sandbox not found error shows where to look for existing sandboxes. Common mistakes, like typing a command after sh , redirect to the command that was intended.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 17, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month

GPT-5.6 Sol , the flagship of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series, is 50% off on AI Gateway through September 18. The discount applies on the OpenAI provider to all token types, tiers, regions, and modes, and it is available only on requests running directly through AI Gateway (not BYOK).

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 13, 2026

GLM 5.2 free for eve agents through August 27 via Blackbox on AI Gateway

GLM 5.2 , the open-weights coding model from Z.ai with a 1M-token context window, is free for eve agents through August 27, served by Blackbox AI on AI Gateway . New eve agents come with GLM 5.2 as their default model. Use npx eve@latest init my-agent to get started.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 13, 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off

Gemini 3.7 Flash from Google is now available on AI Gateway for 50% off till December 31st, 2026. Gemini 3.7 Flash improves on prior Flash models at software engineering and agentic work.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 13, 2026

Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

The AI SDK harness layer lets you run established coding-agent runtimes through one unified interface, so you can switch runtimes without changing your application code. Today we are adding Grok Build, which runs through the same HarnessAgent interface as every other supported harness.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 13, 2026

Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer

The AI SDK harness layer now supports any Agent Client Protocol (ACP)-compatible harness with HarnessAgent through the new @ai-sdk/harness-acp package. Previously, every harness adapter wrapped one specific runtime (Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Deep Agents, OpenCode). @ai-sdk/harness-acp wraps the protocol instead.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 12, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway

DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs on updated weights on AI Gateway. They are used by default when you call deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro , so existing requests pick them up with no change to the model ID or your code. To use the updated DeepSeek V4 Pro, set model to deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 in the AI SDK .

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 12, 2026

Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve

Exa web search is now free on AI Gateway through August 31, and it's now the default web search for eve agents. The tool works with any AI Gateway model, with no separate Exa API key.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 12, 2026

Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway

Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI is now available on AI Gateway . The model has a 500K token context window and accepts text and image inputs. Grok 4.6 supports low, medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels and defaults to high.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 12, 2026

Set up coding agents in one command with AI Gateway

Using coding agents means setting up multiple accounts, provisioning API keys, and scattering observability and billing. Now, you can route them through AI Gateway to centralize all of this and add controls, with set up in one command: Any of 200+ models in any agent , including models the agent has no native support for.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 10, 2026

Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images

Today we are introducing Vercel Managed Images (VMI), a set of versioned, open-source base images you can use as-is or extend. The source for every image lives in the public vercel/sandbox repository. Managed images replace Sandbox runtimes, which are now deprecated.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 8, 2026

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from xAI is now available on AI Gateway. The model follows detailed instructions closely and plans typography and layout together, so dense, multi-part visuals like infographics, posters, and title screens hold their structure and small text stays legible.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 7, 2026

Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM. Access 200+ models through AI Gateway at no markup on tokens, and every request appears in your AI Gateway dashboard with the rest of your usage and spend.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 6, 2026

Give every agent in Herdr its own Vercel Sandbox

Terminal coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode can now each run in their own isolated Vercel Sandbox , orchestrated from Herdr , a tmux-style manager that runs them side by side in panes. Nothing an agent runs or edits touches your machine.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 6, 2026

Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is now available. It is an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Compatible agent clients can discover and load them. Agent Plugins defines a common format: a root plugin.json manifest, plus fixed locations for portable components.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 6, 2026

Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway

Ling 3.0 Tiny from ANT Group is now on AI Gateway, free to use till 8:00am PT on 8/14. Ling 3.0 Tiny takes the free slot from Ling 3.0 Flash . Ling 3.0 Tiny is a MOE model with 7.9B total parameters and about 1.3B active per token, a 256K token context window, and up to 32K output tokens.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 6, 2026

Pause workflows for approval with Chat SDK

You can build human-in-the-loop approvals with Chat SDK through the new chat/workflow subpath. One requestApproval call posts a card with Approve and Deny buttons and suspends a Workflow SDK workflow until someone decides. The wait can last seconds or days and survives deploys and restarts.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 6, 2026

Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Seedance 2.5 from ByteDance is now available on AI Gateway. It can generate up to 30-second clips with synchronized audio, and takes up to 50 reference inputs in one request, spanning images, video, audio, and style.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

AI Gateway is now available on AWS Marketplace

AI Gateway is available on AWS Marketplace . Teams can procure AI Gateway through their existing AWS account, consolidating inference spend onto their AWS bill and streamlining procurement. Purchases are available as private offers with annual contract terms, plus usage-based pricing beyond the contract.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

Export AI Gateway traces with Vercel Drains

AI Gateway now produces an OpenTelemetry trace for every request. Pro and Enterprise teams can send these traces through Vercel Drains to any OTLP/HTTP-compatible endpoint, including native integrations for Braintrust, Dash0, Kubiks, Sentry, and Statsig.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

Full Sandbox egress firewall now available on Hobby plan

All Vercel Sandbox firewall features are now available on the Hobby plan. This brings the same network isolation that protects production workloads to the free tier, giving Hobby builders control over exactly what leaves the sandbox while keeping secrets out of the code entirely.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

Measure time between steps in Vercel Workflows

You can now measure the time between any two steps in the trace viewer for Vercel Workflows and the Workflow SDK . Select a step, hold Option on macOS or Alt on Windows and Linux, then hover another step to see a measurement line between them: Between sequential steps, the line measures from the end of the earlier step to the start of the later step.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

Muse Spark 1.2 is now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Muse Spark 1.2 from Meta is now available on AI Gateway. It is a coding-focused update to the previous Muse Spark model. While keeping its general capabilities, 1.2 ships with improvements in code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, and end-to-end developer workflows.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

Vercel Sandbox now supports 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and 5,000 vCPUs per minute

We've increased the default quotas for Vercel Sandbox on Pro and Enterprise plans: Quota Before After Concurrent sandboxes 2,000 10,000 vCPUs allocation rate 200/min (Pro), 400/min (Enterprise) Up to 5,000/min The higher vCPU allocation rate is possible thanks to a new dynamic quota: instead of a fixed limit, the allowed rate now ramps with sustained usage...

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 5, 2026

iMessage support for eve agents

eve agents can now connect to iMessage through the new Photon channel . The channel keeps each iMessage conversation in one eve session, verifies incoming webhooks, and marks accepted messages as read. If more messages arrive while the agent is replying, they steer the in-progress reply instead of each getting a separate answer.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 4, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway

DeepSeek v4 Flash is 90% off on AI Gateway when you route to Novita. The discount is available to Vercel Pro customers through August 11. To get the discounted rate, set the model to deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 and put Novita first with the order option: If Novita can't serve the request, it falls back to other providers at...

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 4, 2026

Give your eve agent a browser

Your eve agent can now navigate the web like a human with agent-browser . The @agent-browser/eve extension gives any eve agent a full set of browser tools: navigate pages, read content, click, fill forms, take screenshots, and inspect console and network activity. Everything runs inside the agent's sandbox.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 4, 2026

Vercel Sandbox now supports Devin Outposts

Vercel Sandbox now supports Devin Outposts . Each Devin session executes in its own isolated Sandbox microVM, with no local Outpost worker to keep online. The Devin control plane stays with Cognition, where the agent loop handles inference and planning.

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AI SDK and AI GatewayAug 2, 2026

Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Qwen 3.8 Max is now available on AI Gateway. Qwen 3.8 Max handles text-only and vision-language work in one model, with 2.4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

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Vercel platformAug 28, 2026

Vercel CLI expands commands for DNS, domains, and projects

The Vercel CLI now provides dedicated commands for managing DNS records, domains, and projects. This brings more of the functionality available through the Vercel dashboard and API to the terminal, where it can be used interactively, in scripts, or by agents.

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Vercel platformAug 27, 2026

Find deployments faster with redesigned filters

The Deployments page now has redesigned filters that make it faster to find a specific deployment. You can: Apply suggested filters for common searches. Type to find an option instead of scrolling through the list. Describe what you’re looking for in natural language, and Vercel automatically applies the matching filters.

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Vercel platformAug 26, 2026

Python projects now support routing rules

Python projects can now use routing rules to set response headers or rewrite requests to internal paths, including apps built with FastAPI, Django, and Flask. The Vercel CDN evaluates rules before requests reach your application, so changes apply without a new deployment.

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Vercel platformAug 26, 2026

Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available

The Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available on all plans, giving you one place to see your security posture across every account and project. You can access the Security Dashboard in the UI or run vercel security check in the Vercel CLI. As teams grow and coding agents make it faster to spin up projects, small misconfigurations add up quietly.

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Vercel platformAug 25, 2026

Chat SDK now supports Slack Enterprise Grid

Chat SDK's Slack adapter now supports Slack Enterprise Grid . Bots installed org-wide work across every workspace, with correct token resolution, tenant-scoped caches, and event retry deduplication. The adapter now stores org-wide installations by enterprise ID.

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Vercel platformAug 25, 2026

Chat SDK now supports XChat

You can now build bots that hold end-to-end encrypted 1:1 and group conversations on XChat with the new XChat adapter for Chat SDK. The adapter handles all encryption, key management, and signature verification automatically. Bots can also message users first, as long as the user has encrypted chat set up and follows the bot.

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Vercel platformAug 25, 2026

Speed Insights now has a free tier

Speed Insights now has a free tier that gives you a high-level performance overview from your real users. The new free tier: Is available on every plan, for any number of projects Includes 10,000 events per team, every 30 days Install Speed Insights: Previously, free Speed Insights was limited to a single project on Hobby, and upgrading to Pro meant losing...

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Vercel platformAug 25, 2026

Vercel Connect is now generally available

Vercel Connect is now generally available on all plans and in v0 . Instead of storing long-lived provider secrets, your code requests short-lived, scoped tokens at runtime. Deployments authenticate with their existing Vercel OIDC identity. Each token is scoped to the task, refreshed automatically, and expires on its own.

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Vercel platformAug 25, 2026

Vercel Connect now supports Linq

Vercel Connect now includes a managed connector for Linq , so your apps and agents can send and receive messages over iMessage, RCS, and SMS. As a Vercel Managed Connector , Vercel can create a Linq account and phone number for you, or link an existing account. You never manage credentials yourself.

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Vercel platformAug 25, 2026

Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities

Summary Two vulnerabilities affecting Next.js were disclosed in the August 2026 Security Release. Next.js applications hosted on Vercel are protected and require no customer action.

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Vercel platformAug 24, 2026

Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration

The Bun runtime on Vercel Functions now supports larger package sizes up to 5GB uncompressed and extended max duration for up to 30 minutes, two betas that previously ran on Node.js and Python only.

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Vercel platformAug 24, 2026

Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache hits to prevent downgrades

Elastic build machines now consider Turborepo cache hits when deciding whether to use a smaller build machine. A warm-cache build no longer triggers a downgrade. A warm-cache build can use less CPU and memory than the same build with a cold cache.

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Vercel platformAug 24, 2026

Environment variables now use Config and Secret types

When you add or edit an environment variable in Vercel, you now choose Config or Secret instead of using the Sensitive toggle. Existing variables marked Sensitive are automatically treated as Secrets and continue to work without migration. Config: The value remains readable after saving for members with access.

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Vercel platformAug 21, 2026

Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic

With always-on tracing, you can now debug your real user requests without reproducing them. Always-on tracing continuously collects traces from your production and preview traffic. Unlike session tracing , which only captures requests from your own browser, it samples your live traffic. You control what's collected with sampling rules.

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Vercel platformAug 21, 2026

Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready

Every deployment produces a set of files, including the pages, functions, and assets Vercel serves. Deployment Storage keeps those files available so you can inspect previous deployments and roll back when needed.

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Vercel platformAug 21, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off a lower price

OpenAI lowered list pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol , and the 50% AI Gateway discount now applies to the new, lower price through September 18. Input drops 20%, output drops a third.

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Vercel platformAug 21, 2026

Microfrontends previews now link across repositories

Microfrontends can now link Preview Deployments across repositories when their Git branch names match exactly. In a monorepo, projects share the same Git repository, commits, and branches, so Vercel can automatically link their previews. Cross-repository projects have separate commit histories and branches in separate repositories.

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Vercel platformAug 20, 2026

Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions

Vercel Functions now support the new Bun 1.4 release , a rewrite of Bun from Zig to Rust, with over 2,900 issues resolved, more than 1,500 additional Node.js compatibility tests passing, and new features and performance improvements.

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Vercel platformAug 20, 2026

Custom metrics are now supported in Vercel Observability

You can now emit your own metrics directly from your Vercel Functions and analyze them alongside Vercel's built-in observability data. Use the metric() function from the @vercel/functions package to record any value you care about, like request latency or business events, and attach attributes to filter and group by: Once emitted, your custom metrics are...

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Vercel platformAug 20, 2026

Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI

You can now manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI . The new vercel vcr command group lets you: Connect your existing container tooling Build and push images in one step Create and inspect repositories, images, and tags Authenticate your container tooling, such as Docker, Podman, or Buildah, with a short-lived token scoped to your project.

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Vercel platformAug 20, 2026

Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI

You can now use the Vercel CLI to manage Vercel Toolbar comments. vercel comments covers the full triage loop: List and filter unresolved comments for the linked project, scoped to your current Git branch Inspect a full thread with every message and its IDs Reply, resolve, reopen, edit, or delete from the terminal --format json output for scripts and agents...

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Vercel platformAug 19, 2026

Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace

You can now provision and manage Algolia directly from the Vercel Marketplace. Algolia is a hosted search platform. You send it your content, it builds an index, and your app queries that index instead of your database. Results come back in milliseconds, with typo tolerance, synonyms, and facet counts built in.

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Vercel platformAug 19, 2026

Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter

You can now build bots for Instagram with the new Instagram adapter for Chat SDK. Bots can send and receive DMs and media, render cards as quick replies and link buttons, show typing indicators, receive reactions, and handle story replies. The adapter connects through Meta's Instagram Messaging API and requires a professional Business or Creator account.

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Vercel platformAug 19, 2026

Compliance documents are now available in Team settings

A new Compliance section in Team settings lets you preview and download Vercel's compliance documents directly in the dashboard. These include attestations like SOC 2 Type 2, security policies, and other security documents that are available through the Trust Center.

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Vercel platformAug 19, 2026

Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft

Vercel Connect now includes a managed connector for Microsoft , so your apps and agents can access all Microsoft products such as Teams, OneDrive and more. As a Vercel Managed Connector , Vercel registers the Entra application and configures federated credentials for it, so you don't have to create an app registration or manage client secrets yourself.

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Vercel platformAug 19, 2026

Vercel Python Queues SDK is now available in beta

The Python SDK for Vercel Queues is now available in beta, bringing first-class Python support for running background workloads on Vercel. You publish messages to topics, and independent consumer groups process them in parallel with automatic retries, sharding, and delivery guarantees.

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Vercel platformAug 19, 2026

Vercel for Slack now in public beta

Vercel Agent is now available in Slack. Mention @Vercel in any channel or thread, and Agent joins the conversation with relevant context from your Vercel projects, including deployments, builds, logs, metrics, configuration, and connected repos. For example, use it to: Investigate incidents: Ask why a deployment failed or what’s causing a runtime error.

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Vercel platformAug 18, 2026

Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys

Vercel KMS lets you sign JWTs and arbitrary messages from your Vercel Functions using managed asymmetric signing keys, so private keys never live in your code or environment variables. Your function authenticates with its Vercel OIDC token, and the private key stays inside Vercel's key management service while verifiers use only the public key.

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Vercel platformAug 18, 2026

Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositories

Teams building on Vercel for Platforms can now create deployments directly from their users' GitHub repositories, without requiring them to install the Vercel GitHub App. When creating a deployment , pass a gitAccessToken alongside gitSource . Vercel uses the token to retrieve the source and build the deployment.

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Vercel platformAug 17, 2026

Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta

You can now connect Origin repositories to Vercel. Once connected, pull requests on Origin will automatically generate Preview deployments on Vercel, and merging will trigger a Production deployment. You can connect Origin through Team settings , Project settings , or by clicking "Continue with Origin" when creating a new project .

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Vercel platformAug 14, 2026

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN

Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) for domains managed by Vercel DNS. ECH encrypts the Server Name Indication (SNI) in the TLS handshake, the last part of an HTTPS connection that revealed which hostname a client was connecting to. With ECH, network observers see a connection to Vercel's shared ECH hostname, vercel-ech.com .

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Vercel platformAug 13, 2026

One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions

Team owners and members can now upgrade all projects using Node.js 20 or earlier to Node.js 24 with one click from the Vercel Dashboard. This updates the Node.js version in project settings . If your project also defines a version in package.json , you'll need to update it manually. Existing deployments are not affected.

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Vercel platformAug 12, 2026

Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams

We recently announced that new Pro teams are eligible to claim a free domain for their first year . We are now extending this offer to all Pro teams. Existing Pro teams can now also claim a free domain for one year. The offer covers one eligible domain per team across six TLDs: .online , .site , .space , .store , .tech , and .website .

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Vercel platformAug 11, 2026

Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available

Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) gives organizations full control over the Vercel accounts tied to their verified domains. It makes the organization's identity provider the single source of truth for authentication and account lifecycle, so accounts on company domains are governed centrally rather than owned by individuals.

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Vercel platformAug 11, 2026

LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace

LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace , allowing you to quickly get started with feature flags without additional setup. You can: Sync flags into Global Config and evaluate them locally Target releases by user, attribute, or segment Run experiments with metrics, and roll back with a kill switch View and override flags from the Vercel...

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Vercel platformAug 11, 2026

Vercel Connect adds observability support

Vercel Connect now gives teams line-level visibility into the token lifecycle. See who created a token, what app or project used it, when, and whether it is still active. Every connector's detail page includes a new Observability tab: Runtime events : Every token request, authorization, refresh, revocation, and trigger delivery, filterable by type.

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Vercel platformAug 11, 2026

Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors

You can now integrate 100+ services through Vercel Connect from the CLI. Previously, vercel connect create completed setup in the terminal for some services, and opened the dashboard for everything else.

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Vercel platformAug 10, 2026

Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint

The Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now supports Bun.serve() as a function entrypoint, including WebSocket handlers. The server you run locally with Bun deploys as-is, without being wrapped in a framework. Enable the runtime by setting "bunVersion": "1.x" in vercel.json .

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Vercel platformAug 10, 2026

Simplified onboarding for deepsec

deepsec , the open-source security review harness from Vercel, now lets you set up a repository and run its first security review with a single command. The init command now automates the standard setup process: creates the isolated .deepsec/ workspace, the only thing added to your repository, and installs its dependencies configures model access, through...

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Vercel platformAug 7, 2026

Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther

Audit Log Drains now stream your team's audit events into Datadog , Splunk , and Panther , joining the existing custom HTTPS endpoint and Amazon S3 destinations. An Audit Log Drain forwards every event from your team's Activity Log, plus additional audit metadata, to the destination you choose. They're available on Enterprise plans.

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Vercel platformAug 7, 2026

Free domain now included with new Pro subscriptions

New Pro subscriptions now include a domain free for the first year. The offer covers six TLDs: .online .site .space .store .tech .website Each team has 30 days after subscribing to claim one domain, either at checkout or later from the domain search in the dashboard.

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Vercel platformAug 7, 2026

Skill packs are now available on skills.sh

You can now bundle multiple agent skills into a shareable pack on skills.sh . Build a pack from community skills, your own local folders and zips, or public and private GitHub repositories. Every pack is unlisted, with its own URL. Share that link with a single person, or your whole team to standardize the skills across your projects.

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Vercel platformAug 7, 2026

Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public

Vercel Container Registry now lets you make a repository public, so anyone with a Vercel account can pull and use its images. Sharing already granted read access to up to 100 teams, and making a repository public opens that access to every Vercel team rather than a named set.

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Vercel platformAug 6, 2026

Marketplace integrations now install provider skills

When you install a Vercel Marketplace integration from the Vercel CLI, it now also installs that provider's agent skills from skills.sh , so your agents know how to use it: This happens automatically for any provider that publishes skills. You can also find integrations without leaving the terminal: vercel integration discover browses available providers.

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Vercel platformAug 5, 2026

New setup page after domain checkout

Buying a domain on Vercel now takes you to a setup page that tracks registration live, with direct paths to deploy a new project, connect an existing one, proxy or redirect a site you already run, or set up email. Registration can take a few minutes. Each setup action unlocks as soon as the domain is ready.

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Vercel platformAug 5, 2026

Search and buy domains in the dashboard

You can now search for and purchase domains from the Vercel dashboard . Open the domain search panel from the Buy button in domain settings or the + button on the project overview. Nameservers are configured automatically for your project, so there are no DNS records to set. Read the working with domains documentation to get started. Read more

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Vercel platformAug 5, 2026

Set your own project avatars

You can now set a project's avatar from its settings in the Vercel dashboard. Until now, Vercel set it automatically, using the favicon from the project's production deployment. That's still the default if you haven't set one. The avatar renders across the dashboard and on Vercel bot comments in GitHub.

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Vercel platformAug 4, 2026

Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many ISR pages

Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps using Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR). The more prerendered pages you have, the more you're likely to save. ISR combines the speed of static generation with the flexibility of dynamic rendering, letting sites update content without full rebuilds. Every ISR page has routing metadata that ships alongside it.

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Vercel platformAug 3, 2026

Share Vercel Container Registry repositories across teams

Vercel Container Registry now lets you share a repository with other Vercel teams to grant read access to its images. Sharing is read-only and covers the whole repository. Recipients can pull and use every image, but cannot push, delete, or re-share. You can also share a repository with your own team. Each repository can be shared with up to 100 teams.

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Vercel platformAug 3, 2026

Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available

Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available and supported for production use on all plans. If you protected a store during the beta , nothing has changed: your rules and setup carry over exactly as they are. Vercel WAF protects a Blob store with custom rules , the same kind you use to guard your deployments.

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v0Aug 24, 2026

Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services

Apps and agents built in v0 can now securely connect to more than 100 services , including Slack, Google, Notion, GitHub, and Salesforce, through Vercel Connect . Ask v0 to connect your app to a service. It opens the connector setup and guides you through it. You set up each connector once for your team, then reuse it across apps.

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