Vercel Staff(edited)
July 10, 2026 - July 17, 2026
Vercel Weekly - July 20, 2026
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Top Highlights
- The July index reports on AI Gateway data collected in June 2026 showed that AI investment kept climbing, the average token price went flat, and open-weight models ran 29% of gateway tokens in June.
- Deployment Policies now let teams restrict which mechanisms, organizations, and repositories can create deployments, giving enterprises granular control over their deployment security and governance workflows.
- Runtime logs now display cache reasons explaining why requests missed the cache, making it significantly easier to debug cache behavior and optimize hit rates for better performance.
Community Projects
- New Street Studios: a public AI-work demo in Next.js 16
- Nimbus Lite — free MIT Next.js 16 marketing + blog template, zero env vars
- shadcn-cssinjs - CSS-in-JS port of shadcn/ui
- I built an MCP server that catches design drift - now in Anthropic's connector directory
- callcheck // a tool call reliability layer built on ai gateway
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- Open-weight models surge to 29% of volume, price per token flattens
- How Speechify serves 500,000 dynamic pages to 60 million users on Vercel
More Updates
- Seedream 5.0 Pro is now available on AI Gateway
- Web Analytics and Speed Insights are now more cost-efficient
- Configure which sources can create deployments with Deployment Policies
- Manage Vercel Flags targeting rules from the CLI
- Agent Runs now show subagent activity on eve projects
- Access and share AI Gateway leaderboard data
- Chat SDK adds X adapter support
- AgentMail joins the Vercel Marketplace
- Endform joins the Vercel Marketplace
- Node.js 20 is being deprecated on October 1, 2026
- Vercel Plugin now available in VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
- Vercel Blob now supports consistent reads on private storage
- Chat SDK adds Discord Components V2 support
- Vercel Workflows trace viewer now has a minimap
- Inkling from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway
- Faster, predictable project linking in the Vercel CLI
- Vercel Connect support in GitHub Tools
- Kimi K3 is now available on AI Gateway
- Write utilization now available in ISR Observability
- Chat SDK adds native Slack agent support
- Runtime logs now show cache reasons
