Hello, Vercel Team I am currently using Vercel AI Gateway with BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) and encountering the following errors: UnknownError: Free credits temporarily have restricted access due to abuse. We are working on a resolution. Paid credits continue to have unrestricted access. Purchase cr…

I’d like to share an excerpt from the Vercel support team’s response: Reason for the restrictions Due to previous abuse, rate limits are enforced on the free tier even when using BYOK Solution By purchasing AI credits: Restricted models will become available Rate limits will be increas…

Hey, @shige ! Thank you for sharing the solution from Support here. Now hopefully this can be useful to everyone else in the Community :slight_smile:

AI Gateway with BYOK: Free Credits Error and Rate Limit Question

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shige (Tadashi Shigeoka) October 10, 2025, 11:07am 9

Happy to help if it contributes to the Vercel community in any way!

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AI Gateway with BYOK: Free Credits Error and Rate Limit Question

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