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Vercel Private Blob is now generally available

Vercel Private Blob is now generally available for all plans. Store sensitive files like user-uploaded photos, invoices, and agent memory, and control exactly who can read them. Private stores, Signed URLs, and OIDC authentication all graduate from beta with this release. Vercel Private Blob uses the same Blob API as public blobs. Specify when uploading a blob:access: 'private' Functions running on Vercel now authenticate to Vercel Private Blob with a short-lived, auto-rotating OIDC token scope

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Vercel Agent has updated pricing

Vercel Agent pricing is changing. You no longer need to pre-load credits or manage a separate wallet for Vercel Agent. Instead of a $0.30 per-request fee, you now pay a Vercel Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens, plus provider inference costs at the underlying token rate. The new Vercel Token Rate scales with the actual work each task requires. A quick question costs less than a deep investigation that reads your logs, deployments, configuration, and runtime data, spins up sandboxes, and writ

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Claude Sonnet 5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Claude Sonnet 5 from Anthropic is now available on . Sonnet 5 improves on Sonnet 4.6 across coding and agentic work, reaching outcomes on many tasks that previously needed an Opus model, at Sonnet pricing.AI Gateway The model is more agentic and follows instructions more closely. Document parsing and long-context memory use are also stronger. Sonnet 5 also uses an updated tokenizer, like the recent Opus models, which can map the same input to more tokens. Launch pricing of $2 per million input t

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An expanded Vercel Agent: chat, investigations, and approved actions, now in public beta

Today, we're launching expanded capabilities for Vercel Agent in public beta. Vercel Agent now lives in your dashboard and can investigate production issues, answer questions about your projects, and take action on your behalf. Because Agent runs inside the platform that deploys and serves your app, it has access to the signals around it: deployments, logs, metrics, project configuration, usage, and connected repositories. That context is what turns a question into an answer and a problem into

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Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) now on AI Gateway

Nano Banana 2 Lite from Google is now available on . This Flash-Lite-tier image model is built for fast, low-cost generation. It generates images alongside text in <4s and can edit existing images across multiple turns.AI Gateway The cost is also lower than previous Nano Banana models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates 1K images at $0.034 each, about half the cost of Nano Banana 2 and roughly a quarter of the cost of Nano Banana Pro at the same resolution. This model is multimodal. Use or to genera

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Vercel Sandbox now support Custom Images

Vercel Sandboxes now supports custom images. Launching in public beta today, images allow Sandboxes to start with your own custom root filesystem. Images are pulled from , so anything you is immediately available.Vercel Container Registrydocker push Bring your own OS, toolchain and dependencies into the Sandbox without needing to spin up compute and create Snapshots. Images in the background for Fluid Compute and boot from a precompiled snapshot in the same format as our - so you get the conve

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Introducing VCR: Vercel Container Registry

You can now push, pull, and manage container images directly on Vercel. Vercel Container Registry is an OCI-compliant image registry hosted on Vercel infrastructure. It works with standard workflows like , , and , so there's nothing new to learn or tooling to migrate.docker pushdocker pulldocker tag A Vercel project can have unlimited repositories. You can create and manage them through the Vercel dashboard, or push directly to VCR, which creates the repository for you on the fly. Operations use

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Run multiple frameworks in one project with Vercel Services

You can now deploy multiple frontends and backends together within a single Vercel project. , allowing you to deploy full stack apps with multiple frameworks on a shared domain, where services talk to each other privately and deployments build, preview, and roll back together.Vercel Services is now available Services are defined in :vercel.json From there, your services show up across the dashboard and CLI: Services talk to each other internally with the new key, without routing through the pub

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