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Vercel

Vercel is a cloud platform that helps developers build, deploy, and scale modern web applications quickly and efficiently. It provides an optimized hosting environment for frontend frameworks like Next.js (which it created), as well as other React, Vue, Angular, and static site projects. Vercel automates workflows for continuous deployment, edge caching, and serverless functions, so developers can push code changes and see them live almost instantly.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Vercel the way a machine reads it — 55 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Vercel scores 74.4/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 65/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 74.4/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 20.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.3 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 65/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Vercel

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Vercel. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Vercel

Vercel is a developer cloud to build and deploy web applications.

Vercel Webhooks

Vercel Webhooks deliver platform events to a subscriber-configured HTTPS endpoint via HTTP POST with a JSON body. Subscriptions are created as Account Webhooks (Team Settings) o...

Vercel Chat API

Chat completions (OpenAI-compatible)

Vercel Chats API

AI-powered app generation via chat sessions

Vercel Embeddings API

Text embeddings

Vercel Models API

List available AI models

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Vercel AI Gateway API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vercel v0 Platform API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 11

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Vercel AI Gateway Chat Completion With Provider Fallback

Attempt a chat completion with a provider fallback chain, retrying on rate limit.

ARAZZO

Vercel AI Gateway Cost-Routed Two-Turn Conversation

Run a cost-sorted chat completion, then send a follow-up turn carrying the prior reply.

ARAZZO

Vercel AI Gateway Discover Model Then Complete

List available models, confirm the requested one is present, then run a chat completion.

ARAZZO

Vercel AI Gateway Discover Model Then Embed

List available models, confirm the embedding model is present, then create an embedding.

ARAZZO

Vercel AI Gateway Embed Then Summarize

Create an embedding for a document, then run a chat completion that summarizes it.

ARAZZO

Vercel Generate App Then Explain Code

Generate an app with v0, fetch its files, then explain the code via the AI Gateway.

ARAZZO

Vercel v0 Generate App Then Poll For Files

Generate a web app from a prompt, then poll the chat until generated files are present.

ARAZZO

Vercel v0 Generate Then Refine App

Generate an app from a prompt, then send a follow-up refinement in the same chat.

ARAZZO

Vercel v0 Iterative App Build

Generate an app, apply two sequential refinements, then read back the final chat.

ARAZZO

Vercel Draft Spec With Gateway Then Build App

Draft an app spec via the AI Gateway, then feed that spec into v0 to generate the app.

ARAZZO

Vercel v0 Resume And Refine Chat

Fetch an existing chat to confirm it exists, then continue it with a refinement.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vercel Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Vercel Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Hobby plan (free, non-commercial): 100GB bandwidth, 1M edge req/mo
Pro plan at $20/dev/mo with $20 usage credits and 1TB bandwidth
Enterprise with custom limits, SAML SSO, SOC 2/HIPAA
Bandwidth overage at $0.15/GB above 1TB
Edge requests overage at $2/1M above 10M included
Function invocations at $0.60/1M
Active CPU at $0.128/hour, Provisioned Memory at $0.0106/GB-hour
Image Optimization with on-demand transformations
Blob Storage, KV, Postgres, Edge Config
REST API for projects, deployments, domains, env vars
Deployment limits: 100/day Hobby, 6000/day Pro
Build concurrency: 1 Hobby, 12 Pro
GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket auto-deploy
Edge Functions and Edge Middleware
Speed Insights and Web Analytics
AI Gateway for LLM routing and observability

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Vercel Webhooks

AsyncAPI definition for Vercel's webhook surface. Vercel webhooks are HTTP POST deliveries from Vercel to a subscriber-configured endpoint URL registered either as an Account We...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Vercel Context

30 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Vercel API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Vercel API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Vercel API Rules

11 rules · 5 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Vercel Chat Completion Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Vercel Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Vercel Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Vercel Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Vercel Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Vercel Agentic Access

6 operations · 4 acting

6 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Vercel — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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