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Index › Vendors › Vercel AI Gateway · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Vercel AI Gateway

9Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Vercel AI Gateway was named 5 times in LLM gateways, where LiteLLM led with 38%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business18 of 44

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 63

under the label threshold

Enterprise60 of 62

under the label threshold

In llm gateways · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Vercel AI Gateway for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	0%	15 of 63	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Vercel AI Gateway yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Vercel AI Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Already on Kong/Vercel | Kong AI Gateway / Vercel AI Gateway” MiniMax M2.5 · LLM gateways · comparative prompt · alternative

“Already on Vercel? Vercel AI Gateway.” GPT-5.4 mini · LLM gateways · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Vercel AI Gateway, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vercel AI Gateway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM9 of 93Not in the top three

OpenRouter9 of 91Not in the top three

Portkey8 of 91Not in the top three

Cloudflare AI Gateway8 of 90Not in the top three

Helicone7 of 91Not in the top three

Kong AI Gateway6 of 90Not in the top three

Bifrost3 of 91Not in the top three

TrueFoundry2 of 90Not in the top three

Braintrust Gateway1 of 91Not in the top three

Braintrust1 of 90Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Vercel AI Gateway. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 9 answers that named Vercel AI Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dev.to6

orq.ai5

respan.ai5

braintrust.dev4

cloudzero.com4

getmaxim.ai4

langfuse.com4

openrouter.ai4

aimultiple.com3

atlan.com3

Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Vercel AI Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-20264

cloudzero.com/blog/llm-gateways4

getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-production-ready-comparison4

langfuse.com/resources/engineering/llm-gateway4

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways4

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways4

aimultiple.com/llm-orchestration3

atlan.com/know/what-is-ai-gateway-llm-gateway3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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