# Vercel — xAI and Vercel partner to bring zero-friction AI to developers

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-03-20T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/xai-and-vercel-partner-to-bring-zero-friction-ai-to-developers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20894-xai-and-vercel-partner-to-bring-zero-friction-ai-to-developers
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway
- Models affected: Grok
- Pricing: xAI is introducing a new free tier through Vercel to enable quick prototyping and experimentation.

Vercel and xAI have partnered to make Grok models available through the Vercel Marketplace, with a new free tier for prototyping and no additional signup required. Developers can access xAI's models directly from Vercel projects with simplified authentication and integrated billing. The integration also powers the official Next.js AI chatbot template and the AI SDK.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/xai-and-vercel-partner-to-bring-zero-friction-ai-to-developers:

> We're partnering with xAI to bring their powerful Grok models directly to Vercel projects through the Vercel Marketplace —and soon v0 —with no additional signup required.

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