Vercel new features in September 2026

Everything Vercel shipped in September 2026: 56 releases, grouped by product, each linked to Vercel's release notes.

August 2026

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AI SDK and AI Gateway31

AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 23, 2026

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS from Google are now available on AI Gateway . Both models take text and generate speech in more than 100 languages. They support long-form narration, control over delivery, and two-speaker dialogue.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 22, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway

Claude Opus 5.5 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway . It is a step-change improvement over Opus 5 , with its biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agent tasks, and knowledge work. Anthropic cites that Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1, but ~30% faster and ~40% cheaper than Opus 5 per task.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 22, 2026

Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta

Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now available in public beta on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. A Drive is persistent storage that you mount as a directory in a Vercel Sandbox. It isn’t tied to a single sandbox, so you can reuse the same Drive across runs and different sandbox instances.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 22, 2026

GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI are now available on AI Gateway . Both models bring GPT-6 improvements in professional work, coding, computer use, factuality, and communication at a lower price than GPT-6 Astra .

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 21, 2026

AI Gateway now supports TypeSafe clients and an HTTP API for Jev

You can now call Jev from TypeSafe AI through AI Gateway using an existing TypeSafe client or the HTTP API, in addition to the AI SDK. TypeSafe client: Point an existing TypeSafe client at AI Gateway without changing its evaluation calls. HTTP API: Call Jev directly from any language or framework. AI SDK: Call Jev from a TypeScript application using AI SDK.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 21, 2026

Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eve

Grok 4.7 from SpaceXAI is now available on AI Gateway and 40% off through September 27. The discount applies automatically when you call spacexai/grok-4.7 . Grok 4.7 has a 500K token context window and supports low, medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels, giving you control over the tradeoff between latency and depth.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 21, 2026

MiMo V2.6 models now available on AI Gateway

MiMo V2.6 Pro , MiMo V2.6 Flash , and MiMo V2.6 Pro UltraSpeed from Xiaomi are now available on AI Gateway . MiMo V2.6 combines coding, reasoning, and tool use with native text, image, audio, and video understanding.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 18, 2026

GLM 5.3 FlashX now available on AI Gateway

GLM 5.3 FlashX is now available on AI Gateway. GLM 5.3 FlashX is a high-speed serving option for Z.ai's multimodal coding model, delivering inference at ~200 tokens per second for faster streamed responses. The higher serving speed is useful for coding agents, tool loops, and interactive applications where users wait on generated output.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 17, 2026

GPT-Live 1 now available on AI Gateway

GPT-Live 1 from OpenAI is now available on AI Gateway. GPT-Live 1 is a full-duplex voice model and can listen and speak at the same time. Many voice models use turn detection to respond. Full duplex removes that boundary, so a user can pause, interrupt, or add detail while GPT-Live is speaking. GPT-Live 1 also supports client delegation.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 17, 2026

Run Terminal-Bench and other Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox

You can now run Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox. Harbor is the open-source harness behind Terminal-Bench , whose registry includes many other benchmarks such as SWE-bench, tau3-bench and OSWorld.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 16, 2026

Is Agentic now tailors its audit by site type

Is Agentic reports now let you view your checks through one of four site types: Docs & content, Business, App, or Commerce. For example, the Commerce view highlights payment and checkout standards like x402, UCP, and ACP, while the App view highlights API discovery, authentication, error handling, and SDK support.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 16, 2026

TypeSafe AI's Jev now available on AI Gateway

Jev from TypeSafe AI is now available on AI Gateway . Jev is a probabilistic decision model for software: state goes in, typed Choice, Score, and Boolean answers come out. Regular language models generate text one token at a time, which the application then parses and validates.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 15, 2026

Gemini 3.8 Live models now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking from Google are now available on AI Gateway. Both models support real-time spoken interactions for voice assistants, conversational experiences, and applications that respond through audio.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 14, 2026

AI SDK harness layer now supports native subscription authentication

The AI SDK harness layer now supports authenticating harnesses through their native subscriptions, where the underlying harness supports them. The harness layer runs different coding agents through the same HarnessAgent interface, so you can switch agents without changing your application code. No code changes or new settings are required.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 11, 2026

Vercel Sandbox now provides 64 GB of storage

Every Vercel Sandbox now includes 64 GB of storage, up from 32 GB. This includes sandboxes created from a Vercel Managed Image or custom image, as well as those configured with the deprecated runtime property.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 10, 2026

Build with OpenAI Agents API on Vercel

You can now build and deploy long-running, tool-using agents with the OpenAI Agents API on Vercel. OpenAI manages the agent loop and session state, while Vercel hosts the application and connects each session to Vercel Sandbox for code execution and file access.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 10, 2026

GitHub Copilot is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

The AI SDK harness layer now supports GitHub Copilot through the official @ai-sdk/harness-github-copilot 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 GatewaySep 10, 2026

Tako Search is free on AI Gateway through September 30

Tako Search is free exclusively on AI Gateway through September 30. It lets AI models search Tako's curated data and the live web, filter web results by domain or publication date, and use the results to answer questions with current information, citations, and visualizations. After September 30, searches are billed at standard rates.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 10, 2026

Vercel Sandbox is now available in all regions

Vercel Sandbox can now run in all 20 Vercel compute regions , up from four. Running sandboxes closer to the databases, storage, and other services they access reduces latency. Teams can also keep sandbox workloads in approved regions to support data residency and regional processing requirements. iad1 remains the default region.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 9, 2026

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway with native image understanding. V4.1 Flash has vision support and accepts text and images in the same request, so you can ask questions about screenshots, read charts, and extract information from visual content.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 9, 2026

Persistent memory for eve agents

eve agents can now retain context across sessions and use it in future conversations. Persistent memory is organized into slots. You can define named slots in files under agent/memory/ . Each slot specifies a provider, which stores and retrieves the memory, and a scope, which determines who or what shares it.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 8, 2026

GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gateway

GPT Image 2.5 Flare and GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst from OpenAI are now available on AI Gateway. Both models accept text prompts and reference images for generation and editing.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 8, 2026

Vercel Sandbox routing is now 18x faster globally

Requests to Vercel Sandbox public domains are now routed 18x faster. Domains created with the sandbox.domain() SDK call are now resolved from the nearest regional replica, instead of a single centralized store. Incoming requests reach the process running in the sandbox with less latency. Median domain lookup latency dropped from 62ms to 3.4ms (18x faster).

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 4, 2026

GPT 6 Astra now available on Vercel AI Gateway

GPT 6 Astra from OpenAI is now available on AI Gateway. GPT 6 Astra is designed for long-running agentic work. It can navigate software, analyze data, run simulations, and build and test websites while adapting to new requirements, filling in routine gaps, and continuing other work when it needs clarification.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 4, 2026

Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is now available on AI Gateway for free

Ling 3.0 Flash Sante from inclusionAI is now available on AI Gateway, and free through October 4. Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is the healthcare-focused version of Ling 3.0 Flash . It's built for medical reasoning, research, evidence retrieval, and multi-step healthcare tasks.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 3, 2026

Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox

Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox instead of Cursor's hosted machines. Cursor manages the agent harness and inference loop. Its Self-Hosted Machines APIs let you supply the execution environment where agents clone repositories, edit files, and run commands and tests. Self-Hosted Machines requires a Cursor Enterprise plan.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 2, 2026

GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway

GLM-5.3 is 50% off on AI Gateway through Tuesday, September 8, in partnership with DigitalOcean. How to use the model during the offer period Using the promo name ( zai/glm-5.3-promo-50 ) gets the discounted rate. It routes only to DigitalOcean, with no fallback to another provider, and it stops serving when the offer ends.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 2, 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.8 Flash from Google is now available on AI Gateway. The model is 50% off through December 31st. It has a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, PDF, and video input, returns text, and supports tool calling and web search. Maximum output is 65,536 tokens.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 2, 2026

Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway

Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta is now available on AI Gateway, in both the standard and contributor pricing tiers. This model improves on prior Muse Spark models at agent work and coding, with a 1M token context window and text, image, and PDF input. On coding it takes fewer turns and writes less filler than the previous release.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 1, 2026

Claude Fable 5.1 now available on AI Gateway

Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway. Fable 5.1 improvements compared to previous Claude models are concentrated in long, multi-stage work like agentic coding, knowledge work, and research that takes several rounds of searching and following up. Anthropic ships Fable 5.1 with cybersecurity and biology safety classifiers enabled.

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AI SDK and AI GatewaySep 1, 2026

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway. This is a new snapshot of Qwen 3.8 Max, with the gains concentrated in coding on larger projects, long-horizon work that runs without supervision, and agent runs. Vision handling is more accurate on charts and dense documents.

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Vercel platformSep 24, 2026

Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AI

Agents built with TanStack AI can now call OAuth-protected MCP servers through Vercel Connect, with no credentials for you to store or rotate. The new @vercel/connect/tanstack-ai subpath exports connectMCPTransport , which takes a TanStack transport config and attaches a Connect-backed auth provider.

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Vercel platformSep 23, 2026

Unlimited Vercel Blob stores on every plan

You can now create as many Vercel Blob stores as you need. The previous limits of 100 stores on Hobby, 500 on Pro, and 1,000 on Enterprise no longer apply. Blob store creation is now billed alongside other Blob Advanced Operations , including put() , copy() , and list() calls. On Pro that's $5.00 per million.

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Vercel platformSep 21, 2026

Deployments now show billable duration and CPU minutes

Deployments now show their billable duration and CPU minutes in the dashboard, vc inspect , and the REST API . Use it to understand how each build contributes to your usage. Billable duration is the build and post-build time combined, rounded up to the next whole minute. CPU minutes are that figure multiplied by the machine's vCPUs.

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Vercel platformSep 21, 2026

Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams

Vercel Connect now includes a managed connector for Microsoft Teams . Creating one gives your organization a Teams bot that your apps and agents run. People can @mention it in channels or message it directly, and your code receives the message and replies as the bot.

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Vercel platformSep 18, 2026

Spend Management expands to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plans

Enterprise teams on Flexible Commitment plans can now use Spend Management , already available on Pro , at no additional cost. You can set a budget at any time in Spend Management settings .

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Vercel platformSep 18, 2026

WebMCP support now available in mcp-handler

mcp-handler now has experimental support for WebMCP , the proposed web standard for exposing tools to in-browser agents. Add a single script tag to your site, and your existing MCP tools become available there too.

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Vercel platformSep 17, 2026

Native Marketplace integrations now support custom environments

You can now connect native Marketplace resources to custom environments . Previously, resource connections could only target production, preview, and development environments. Choose custom environments when connecting a resource from the Vercel dashboard, Vercel CLI, or REST API.

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Vercel platformSep 17, 2026

Sub-second artifact deployments are now supported in Vercel CLI

You and your agents can now deploy static artifacts to Vercel in under one second through Vercel CLI. Run vercel deploy to share a prototype, publish an HTML report, or preview a page created by your coding agent. Vercel automatically detects eligible deployments, and valid artifacts will skip the build step, immediately returning a live URL.

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Vercel platformSep 17, 2026

The skills CLI now supports Notion hosted skills

skills@1.7.0 adds Notion skills databases as an install source for agent skills . Notion skills are reusable agent skills written as Notion pages. Teams author, review, and update them in the workspace they already use, then install them into any agent the skills CLI supports. No Git repository required.

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Vercel platformSep 17, 2026

Turbo build machines can now be enabled per deployment

You can now opt into Turbo build machines on any individual deployment. This is useful when you need to increase resources temporarily without changing project settings.

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Vercel platformSep 16, 2026

Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage

Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments past the 30-day retention window. Hobby teams get 10GB of Deployment Storage . Every deployment you keep uses some of it, and going over the limit can block you from deploying until you free some up.

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Vercel platformSep 16, 2026

Mem0 joins the Vercel Marketplace

Mem0 is now available as a native integration on the Vercel Marketplace , giving your AI agents and apps long-term memory. Mem0 remembers user preferences, facts, and context across sessions, so your app stops starting from scratch. Install from the Marketplace with integrated billing on your Vercel invoice, no separate account or key management.

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Vercel platformSep 16, 2026

Secure Compute and Static IP builds start 64% faster

Builds using Secure Compute or Static IPs now start 64% faster, with the average time from deployment creation to build start dropping from 6.7 seconds to 2.4 seconds. Previously, each build waited for a new build container to boot with its network configuration.

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Vercel platformSep 11, 2026

Control who can manage connectors in Vercel Connect

Pro and Enterprise teams can now control who can create and manage Vercel Connect connectors. Connectors let applications and agents access external services using credentials managed by your team. Owners can enable this restriction under Connector Permissions in Team Settings .

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Vercel platformSep 10, 2026

FastAPI frontends and static files served from the CDN

FastAPI frontends and static files, served with app.frontend() or StaticFiles , are now promoted to the Vercel CDN at build time. Requests for those paths are served directly from the CDN, without invoking your Vercel Function. FastAPI evaluates routes in declaration order.

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Vercel platformSep 9, 2026

Password Protection is now available per project on Pro

Pro teams can now enable Password Protection for individual projects at $20 per project per month. When enabled, Password Protection requires visitors to enter a password you set before they can view the project’s deployments. Open Security in the sidebar, select Deployment Protection , and turn it on. Disable it to stop future charges for that project.

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Vercel platformSep 9, 2026

Protect production deployments for free on every plan

Vercel Authentication can now protect all deployments in a project, including production, at no additional cost on every plan. Previously, protecting production domains required the $150-per-month Advanced Deployment Protection add-on. When enabled, visitors must sign in with a Vercel account that has access to the project.

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Vercel platformSep 9, 2026

You can now read and search changelogs from the CLI

You and your agents can now read and search the Vercel changelog feed from your terminal using vercel changelog . Coding agents can use this command to discover new Vercel products and features, find updates relevant to your project, and read full announcements to inform their recommendations.

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Vercel platformSep 8, 2026

Deployment step now 10% faster

The deployment step is now about 10% faster, saving one second on average. Large applications can save up to 12 seconds. Previously, Vercel uploaded a separate routing metadata file for each function path. That metadata is now combined into a single manifest and uploaded once. This improvement applies automatically to all builds. No changes are required.

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Vercel platformSep 8, 2026

Flat Rate CDN is now GA for Pro teams

Flat Rate CDN is now generally available for Pro teams. Flat Rate CDN is an alternative to usage-based CDN billing that provides you with a fixed monthly bill. Monthly Flat Rate CDN capacity includes: Fast Data Transfer Blob Data Transfer CDN Requests Observability events generated by CDN requests Capacity is set at the team level, not the project level, so...

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Vercel platformSep 3, 2026

Basic build machines are now available on Pro and Enterprise

Pro and Enterprise teams can now select Basic build machines. Basic build machines have 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory, offering a more cost-efficient option for smaller apps or agents that build with fewer resources. New Pro and Enterprise projects still default to Elastic build machines , which scale automatically and are recommended for most use cases.

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Vercel platformSep 2, 2026

Free domain with Pro offer now includes .app and .dev

We recently announced that all Pro teams can claim a free domain for one year . That offer now includes .app and .dev , bringing the eligible TLDs to eight: .app .dev .online .site .space .store .tech .website The offer still covers one domain per team, and premium domains are not eligible.

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Vercel platformSep 1, 2026

AWS PrivateLink is now available on Pro and Enterprise

AWS PrivateLink is now available for Pro and Enterprise teams as part of Advanced Networking. It allows Vercel Functions and builds to connect to AWS-hosted services without sending traffic over the public internet.

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v0Sep 18, 2026

v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables

v0 now installs private packages from npm and custom registries using credentials stored as shared environment variables on Vercel. This makes it easier for teams to build with their existing design systems, component libraries, and internal packages directly in v0.

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v0Sep 9, 2026

v0 adds one-click integrations for email, auth, search, and databases

We're working toward bringing parity across Vercel integration and v0 , starting with Resend , Amazon OpenSearch , MongoDB Atlas , Algolia and Clerk . Prompt v0 with what you want to build, and when your prompt requires a provider, v0 renders a connect card in the chat.

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