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Project-scoped Tokens

You can now create that are limited to a project to authenticate and use the .Vercel Access TokensVercel API A project-scoped token can only read and write resources belonging to a project that the token is scoped to. Requests to any other project, a user-level resource, or a team-level resource will be denied. This ensures jobs, tools, or workflows only ever access the projects they are scoped to. Navigate to the , found under the area of your Account.Account Tokens pageSettings Read more Cr

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Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway

from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway.Inkling Small Inkling Small reaches performance comparable to the larger Inkling model at about a quarter of the size, using much less compute per task. It is a broad generalist with native reasoning over audio and images, and it holds up well on reasoning, agentic coding, and tool use. Controllable thinking effort lets you trade quality against cost and latency, from minimal to maximum reasoning. For visual tasks, it can crop, zoom, and insp

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Turborepo and Vercel Remote Cache now support OpenID Connect (OIDC)

You can now exchange OIDC tokens from CI/CD workflows, including , for short-lived access tokens.GitHub workflowsTurborepo These tokens grant access to , and are a more secure alternative to long-lived Personal Access Tokens (PATs). OIDC tokens are short-lived, only grant access to Vercel Remote Cache, and are associated with your Vercel team, rather than a specific team member. Vercel's Remote Cache We recommend all customers migrate their CI/CD workflows from PATs to OIDC. Get started by add

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AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 pricing and speed updates

On , and are now cheaper and is faster.AI GatewayGPT-5.6 LunaGPT-5.6 TerraGPT-5.6 Sol AI Gateway adds no markup on token pricing, so these changes reach you at the upstream rate. The changes apply to both short and long context pricing. GPT-5.6 Sol keeps the same price; its fast mode now runs 2.5x faster, up from 1.5x. Model IDs are unchanged, so existing requests get the new rates and speed with no code change. See full pricing detail on .AI Gateway Read more Model Change Input: Short co

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Deployments are now up to 7 seconds faster

Over the past few months, we've made deployments up to 7 seconds faster end to end. We removed up to 5 seconds of fixed platform overhead from every build, and deploys from the latest Vercel CLI save up to 2 seconds more. The improvements are most noticeable on smaller builds, where orchestration represents a larger share of the total build time. The largest platform gains: These apply automatically to builds triggered through Git, the dashboard, or Vercel CLI. Deployments from the latest CLI fi

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Latest MCP spec now supported in mcp-handler

is now available with support for the and [email protected] Model Context Protocol specificationMCP TypeScript SDK v2 We originally built to make it easier to spin up MCP servers on popular web frameworks including Next, Nuxt, Svelte, and more.mcp-handler With the new 2.0 release, the handler now supports: Existing stateless Streamable HTTP clients can continue connecting to the same endpoint while servers adopt the latest protocol./mcp Install the new packages: Create a Next.js ro

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Introducing Enterprise Flexible Commitment for Vercel Marketplace

Enterprise customers can now apply a portion of their Flexible Commitment toward eligible resources purchased through the Vercel Marketplace. With Flex Commit support, eligible Marketplace cost can draw directly from your existing commitment making it easier to provision the infrastructure and services your applications need. We're rolling this out with an initial set of Marketplace partners, including , , and , with support for more providers coming.NeonSupabaseRedis Eligible integrations are m

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