Why it mattersA team routing coding agents through Vercel's AI Gateway now gets almost double the credit for the same fee. Credits still do not roll over, so unused credit still disappears.
A team that runs its coding agents through Vercel's AI Gateway now gets more credit for the same monthly fee.
Vercel said that Token Pass now includes $150 in model credits each month. Token Pass is the subscription for featured models on its AI Gateway. The price stays at $30 per team per month. The old plan carried $80 in credits at the same price. Vercel calls Token Pass an Early Access offering for Pro teams, behind a waitlist.
What the credit covers
Vercel says the $150 can be spent on five featured models: Kimi K3, Kimi K3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. A team uses the credit through the AI Gateway with the same API as any other Gateway model. Requests that use a Token Pass scoped key stop when the credit is spent. Vercel charges no overage fee on those requests.
Credits do not carry over
Vercel's post is plain on this. The credit resets at the start of every billing cycle. Unused credit disappears. A team that spends $70 in one month does not keep $80 of credit for the next.
A team can also keep its ordinary AI Gateway key alongside Token Pass. Requests on that key fall back to the team balance when Token Pass credit is spent. Requests on the Token Pass key simply stop. A team can pick which key each service sends with.
The waitlist still applies. Vercel says only Pro teams can sign up, and the invite comes when there is room.
The quiet point about which models Vercel pushes
The five featured models are all outside the big three Western vendors. Two are Chinese, from Moonshot and Zhipu. One is from DeepSeek. Vercel's own gateway index for October reported that open-weight models carried 56 percent of Gateway tokens by then. The plan nudges a team to send more of its paid work to those same models. A team already paying by the token for Claude or Gemini on the Gateway gets nothing new.
What a buyer now has to decide
A team on the Token Pass waitlist has more reason to take the invite. $150 in credit at $30 covers a meaningful amount of coding work. The yardstick is the Gateway's listed prices for each model. A team that already uses Kimi, DeepSeek or GLM on the Gateway should treat the change as a direct discount. A team on Claude, Gemini or GPT models gets nothing, because those are not featured.
Source
Primary: Token Pass now includes $150 in tokens for $30/month, Vercel.
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