AI Gateway - Update Vercel Documentation About Available AI Models on Free Tier

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Hello Vercel Team,

I’d like to report a mismatch in the AI Gateway documentation. The pricing page states that the “Free tier” includes “Model access: All available models.” However, this doesn’t appear to be accurate, as some models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek are not accessible to free tier users.

When attempting an API request to these restricted models, the following error is returned:

'statusCode': 403, 
'name': 'RestrictedModelsError', 
'message': 'Free tier users do not have access to this model. Upgrade to paid credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up for unrestricted access.'

Could the documentation be updated to clarify which models are available on the free tier versus those requiring paid credits?

Thank you!

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I ran into the same issue. Vercel should update their official documentation instead of making users try models one by one to figure out which ones actually work.

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Update

Vercel has updated their documentation page, and it’s much clearer now!
They have also added a dedicated filter to the list of all the AI models that are currently available on the free tier.