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Vercel, August 2026 new features

104 releases · 3 products · 5 GA · 8 Preview · 4 Beta · 1 Deprecation · 2 Pricing

Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway

You can now use AI Gateway budgets to set a dollar spending limit for each user on your team. The limit covers spend from every API key attributed to the user, along with their app tokens. After it's reached, AI Gateway rejects new requests until the budget resets or is increased.

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Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway

Hy4 Preview from Tencent is now available on AI Gateway. Hy4 Preview is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 770B total parameters and 49B active per token, aimed at long-horizon coding, document analysis, game development, and scientific reasoning. It serves a context window of 1M tokens.

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Find deployments faster with redesigned filters

The Deployments page now has redesigned filters that make it faster to find a specific deployment. You can: Apply suggested filters for common searches. Type to find an option instead of scrolling through the list. Describe what you’re looking for in natural language, and Vercel automatically applies the matching filters.

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Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available

The Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available on all plans, giving you one place to see your security posture across every account and project. You can access the Security Dashboard in the UI or run vercel security check in the Vercel CLI. As teams grow and coding agents make it faster to spin up projects, small misconfigurations add up quietly.

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GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway

GLM 5.3 Flash from Z.ai is now available on AI Gateway as zai/glm-5.3-flash . GLM 5.3 Flash is a multimodal coding model with a 1M-token context window. It accepts both text and image inputs and supports function calling, structured output, and streaming. To include images, pass them with text in a message.

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Chat SDK now supports XChat

You can now build bots that hold end-to-end encrypted 1:1 and group conversations on XChat with the new XChat adapter for Chat SDK. The adapter handles all encryption, key management, and signature verification automatically. Bots can also message users first, as long as the user has encrypted chat set up and follows the bot.

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Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway

Wan 3.0 from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway as alibaba/wan-v3.0-video . Wan 3.0 combines text-to-video, image-to-video, first- and last-frame conditioning, and reference-based generation in one model. References can include images, video, and audio. It generates clips up to 30 seconds at 30 fps in 480p, 720p, or 1080p, with synchronized audio.

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Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration

The Bun runtime on Vercel Functions now supports larger package sizes up to 5GB uncompressed and extended max duration for up to 30 minutes, two betas that previously ran on Node.js and Python only.

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Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services

Apps and agents built in v0 can now securely connect to more than 100 services , including Slack, Google, Notion, GitHub, and Salesforce, through Vercel Connect . Ask v0 to connect your app to a service. It opens the connector setup and guides you through it. You set up each connector once for your team, then reuse it across apps.

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Vercel Sandbox is now globally available

Vercel Sandbox now runs globally, starting with four regions: iad1 (Washington, D.C.), sfo1 (San Francisco), cle1 (Cleveland), and cdg1 (Paris). iad1 remains the default. Support for all Vercel regions is coming soon. Choose a region close to the databases, object storage, and other services your sandboxes access to reduce latency.

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Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions

Vercel Functions now support the new Bun 1.4 release , a rewrite of Bun from Zig to Rust, with over 2,900 issues resolved, more than 1,500 additional Node.js compatibility tests passing, and new features and performance improvements.

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Vercel Agent is now available in Slack code channels

Vercel Agent now works in Slack code channels, a new kind of channel launched today for working with a coding agent. Anyone in the channel can follow the work, give Agent new instructions, and review the code it writes. Choose Create a code channel from the Slack sidebar, select Vercel as the agent, and describe what you need to get started.

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Compliance documents are now available in Team settings

A new Compliance section in Team settings lets you preview and download Vercel's compliance documents directly in the dashboard. These include attestations like SOC 2 Type 2, security policies, and other security documents that are available through the Trust Center.

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Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys

Vercel KMS lets you sign JWTs and arbitrary messages from your Vercel Functions using managed asymmetric signing keys, so private keys never live in your code or environment variables. Your function authenticates with its Vercel OIDC token, and the private key stays inside Vercel's key management service while verifiers use only the public key.

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Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta

You can now connect Origin repositories to Vercel. Once connected, pull requests on Origin will automatically generate Preview deployments on Vercel, and merging will trigger a Production deployment. You can connect Origin through Team settings , Project settings , or by clicking "Continue with Origin" when creating a new project .

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Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN

Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) for domains managed by Vercel DNS. ECH encrypts the Server Name Indication (SNI) in the TLS handshake, the last part of an HTTPS connection that revealed which hostname a client was connecting to. With ECH, network observers see a connection to Vercel's shared ECH hostname, vercel-ech.com .

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One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions

Team owners and members can now upgrade all projects using Node.js 20 or earlier to Node.js 24 with one click from the Vercel Dashboard. This updates the Node.js version in project settings . If your project also defines a version in package.json , you'll need to update it manually. Existing deployments are not affected.

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Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway

Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI is now available on AI Gateway . The model has a 500K token context window and accepts text and image inputs. Grok 4.6 supports low, medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels and defaults to high.

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Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams

We recently announced that new Pro teams are eligible to claim a free domain for their first year . We are now extending this offer to all Pro teams. Existing Pro teams can now also claim a free domain for one year. The offer covers one eligible domain per team across six TLDs: .online , .site , .space , .store , .tech , and .website .

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Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available

Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) gives organizations full control over the Vercel accounts tied to their verified domains. It makes the organization's identity provider the single source of truth for authentication and account lifecycle, so accounts on company domains are governed centrally rather than owned by individuals.

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Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther

Audit Log Drains now stream your team's audit events into Datadog , Splunk , and Panther , joining the existing custom HTTPS endpoint and Amazon S3 destinations. An Audit Log Drain forwards every event from your team's Activity Log, plus additional audit metadata, to the destination you choose. They're available on Enterprise plans.

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Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is now available. It is an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Compatible agent clients can discover and load them. Agent Plugins defines a common format: a root plugin.json manifest, plus fixed locations for portable components.

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Marketplace integrations now install provider skills

When you install a Vercel Marketplace integration from the Vercel CLI, it now also installs that provider's agent skills from skills.sh , so your agents know how to use it: This happens automatically for any provider that publishes skills. You can also find integrations without leaving the terminal: vercel integration discover browses available providers.

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Measure time between steps in Vercel Workflows

You can now measure the time between any two steps in the trace viewer for Vercel Workflows and the Workflow SDK . Select a step, hold Option on macOS or Alt on Windows and Linux, then hover another step to see a measurement line between them: Between sequential steps, the line measures from the end of the earlier step to the start of the later step.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway

DeepSeek v4 Flash is 90% off on AI Gateway when you route to Novita. The discount is available to Vercel Pro customers through August 11. To get the discounted rate, set the model to deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 and put Novita first with the order option: If Novita can't serve the request, it falls back to other providers at...

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Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many ISR pages

Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps using Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR). The more prerendered pages you have, the more you're likely to save. ISR combines the speed of static generation with the flexibility of dynamic rendering, letting sites update content without full rebuilds. Every ISR page has routing metadata that ships alongside it.

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