Make pictures and video right inside Claude or ChatGPT.
Pay the model's own price on Vercel AI Gateway. Nothing more.

Price

Many AI apps add extra fees.

  • + app fees on every request
  • + a monthly plan

This one does not.

Vercel AI Gateway bills at the provider's own price.

“AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens. You pay the provider's list price on a pay-as-you-go basis.”

Vercel AI Gateway docs, Pricing

So a busy month costs

$18.46

  • 10 film scenes
  • 40 book pictures
  • 20 product photos
  • 3 clips

What do you pay for AI apps now?

An example, not a quote. Live prices: Veo 3.1 Fast Generate, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image).

Models

394 models.
44 providers. One place.

Every point of light here is a real model on AI Gateway, read live. New ones appear on their own.

Pictures and video from every lab.
All behind the same link.

  • 310 text

    • OpenAI
    • Anthropic
    • Alibaba Qwen
    • Google Gemini
    • xAI Grok
    • Z.ai
    • Meta
    • DeepSeek
    • +28
  • 45 image

    • Black Forest Labs
    • Recraft
    • Google Gemini
    • OpenAI
    • ByteDance
    • Microsoft
    • xAI Grok
    • Meta
    • +3
  • 39 video

    • Alibaba Qwen
    • Kling
    • ByteDance
    • Google Gemini
    • xAI Grok
    • MiniMax
    • Topaz Labs
    • Black Forest Labs
    • +1

How it works

Claude and ChatGPT can plug in extra tools.

They are called connectors. This project is one: your chat keeps the writing and the thinking, and hands the pictures and video to the models on Vercel AI Gateway.

You ask in chat.

Claude or ChatGPT picks the right tool, like making an image, and uses it.

Your private link carries it.

A web address with your secret inside. Only your own copy of this project answers it.

AI Gateway runs the model.

The result comes back to your chat. The cost goes to your own Vercel account.

What your chat can do with it

Produce a short film

Your chat is the producer: it writes the script, plans every shot and writes each prompt. The connector draws the storyboard and films the scenes, with sound, at list price.

  • generate_image
  • start_video
  • get_video

10 scenes with sound: $12.00$1.20 per 8-second scene with sound on Veo 3.1 Fast Generate, at list price

Write and illustrate a book

Write the story with your chat, chapter by chapter, the way you already do. The connector paints the cover and a picture for every chapter.

  • generate_image

40 pictures: $5.38$0.134 per image on Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), at list price

Shoot a product campaign

Your chat writes the brief, the shot list and the captions. The connector makes the product photos and a few short clips.

  • generate_image
  • start_video
  • get_video

20 photos and 3 clips: $5.09$0.134 per image on Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image); $0.80 per 8-second scene on Veo 3.1 Fast Generate, at list price

Draw a comic

Your chat writes the story, plans every panel and writes each line of dialogue. The connector draws the panels, page after page, in the style you pick.

  • generate_image

24 panels: $3.23$0.134 per image on Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), at list price

Run a month of posts

Your chat plans 30 days of posts and writes every caption. The connector makes a picture for each day and short vertical clips for the busiest ones.

  • generate_image
  • start_video
  • get_video

30 pictures and 8 clips: $10.43$0.134 per image on Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image); $0.80 per 8-second scene on Veo 3.1 Fast Generate, at list price

Pick the right model

Ask your chat for the best model for the job, or the cheapest one that looks good. The connector lists every image and video model with its price, so it can choose.

  • list_models

Pay only for what you use.

No plan.

No subscription and no monthly fee. Each request costs what that model costs, nothing more.

Your own credits.

Top up Vercel AI Gateway credits on your Vercel account, or turn on auto top-up. Every team also gets free monthly credits for a set of models.

Your own limit.

Set a spend budget in AI Gateway to cap what your link can ever spend.

Free. Open source. Yours to run.

I charge nothing.

No fees and no sign-up with me. The code is MIT licensed, so anyone can use it, change it or share it.

You run your own copy.

Version 1 runs on your own Vercel account. It takes a few clicks, and your copy's own page walks you through each one.

Why I made it.

So everyone can use AI at the price providers actually set, from the chat app they already use.

Built independently. Not made by or affiliated with Vercel.

Your keys, your credits

Your link works like a password, so keep it private. Nobody can guess it, and if it ever leaks, a new secret shuts the old link at once. Set a budget in AI Gateway, because that is the real limit. Files stay in your own private storage, and the links you get expire after 24 hours. Nobody else ever holds your keys.

Live in three moves.

What you need

  • A Vercel accountFree to sign up. Your copy of this project and your credits live there.
  • A GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket accountThe Deploy button copies the code into it for you.
  • Vercel AI Gateway creditsFree monthly credits cover a set of models. Top up to use the rest.
  1. Deploy

    One click makes your own copy on Vercel, with its private storage.

  2. Open

    Your new page makes your secret, shows where it goes in Vercel, and tests your link.

  3. Connect

    Add the link to Claude in one click, or to ChatGPT and other apps.

Create your connector

A hosted version with Sign in with Vercel is planned. Follow the GitHub repo for it.

Questions

What is AI Gateway MCP?

A connector for Claude and ChatGPT. Your chat keeps doing the writing and the thinking, and makes pictures and video with the models on Vercel AI Gateway, through one private link that only your own copy answers.

What does it cost?

The project is free and open source under the MIT license. You pay only for the models you use, at each provider’s list price: AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens. There is no plan or monthly fee.

Which chat apps does it work with?

Claude and ChatGPT, added as a custom connector.

Who bills me?

Vercel, on your own account. You top up AI Gateway credits there, and every team also gets free monthly credits for a set of models. You can set a spend budget in AI Gateway to cap what your link can spend.

Is it made by Vercel?

No. It was built independently and is not made by or affiliated with Vercel. It runs on your own Vercel account.

Is it safe?

Your link works like a password, so keep it private. Files stay in your own private storage, download links expire, and nobody else ever holds your keys.

Can someone guess my link?

Not in practice. The secret made during setup is 64 random characters, so trying addresses one by one would never reach it, and every wrong try gets the same "page not found" as any other address. The real risk is the link leaking: if it does, change MCP_SECRET in your project and redeploy, and the old link stops working at once. A spend budget in AI Gateway caps what anyone could spend meanwhile.