Vercel launched Token Pass, $80 of open-model AI Gateway credit for $30 a month

On October 15, 2026, Vercel launched Token Pass in early access for Pro teams: $80 in monthly AI Gateway credit for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 for $30 a month, with Zero Data Retention by default.

Archive entry: this covers an event from October 15, 2026, and we published it on November 8, 2026. The details come from sources dated at the time and may have changed since.

On October 15, 2026, Vercel introduced Token Pass, an early-access subscription for Pro teams that gave a team $80 in monthly AI Gateway credit for open models for $30 a month. Vercel described it in its Introducing Token Pass changelog entry.

What changed

For $30 a month, a team got $80 in monthly credit for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3, with more models to come.
Token Pass worked with coding agents such as fx, Command Code and Pi, or with personal agents built on the AI SDK, and ran through AI Gateway.
Zero Data Retention was on by default. Requests ran through selected providers with inference in the US and EU, and prompts were not used to train models.
The subscription renewed monthly, and unused credit did not roll over.
When the credit ran out, Token Pass requests stopped until the next billing period, with no automatic overage charges.

What it meant for people building with AI

Token Pass was a flat-fee bundle of open-model tokens for coding agents, priced against per-token billing. It paired $80 of monthly credit for $30 with Zero Data Retention by default and no automatic overage charges when the credit ran out.

The November 6 update

On November 6, 2026, Vercel published a second changelog entry on Token Pass credit across AI Gateway. From that date, Token Pass credit applied automatically to included model usage through AI Gateway, whether a request used an API key, an OIDC token or an fx login, and no dedicated Token Pass key was needed. Requests made with a standard key or OIDC token fell back to the team's AI Gateway credits when Token Pass credit ran out, while dedicated Token Pass keys stopped.

Sources

Introducing Token Pass (Vercel, October 15, 2026, official)
Token Pass credit now applies automatically across AI Gateway (Vercel, November 6, 2026, official)

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