Ampersand on Vercel AI Gateway

Ampersand · humans&

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Last refreshed 2026-11-09. Next refresh: weekly.

Why use Ampersand on Vercel AI Gateway?

Vercel AI Gateway offers Ampersand. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.

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Input / 1M
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Output / 1M
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Cache
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Batch
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Setup recipe

Python + curl
Install
pip install openai
Auth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...
Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
Model ID
humansand/ampersand-v0.1

Request example

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="humansand/ampersand-v0.1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Gotchas

  • Use provider model ID "humansand/ampersand-v0.1", not the LLMReference slug "ampersand".
  • creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
  • The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.

Compare Ampersand Across Providers

ProviderInput (per 1M)Output (per 1M)
humans& Agents API$1.00$5.20
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Capabilities

ReasoningJSON / Tool use

About Ampersand

Ampersand (v0.1, API id ampersand-v0.1) is humans&'s collaborator model, built on GLM 5.3 and trained with RL to understand the long-term consequences of its actions and help groups of people reach shared goals: reasoning together, asking questions, surfacing context and working through disagreements. Text in/out, 1M-token context, API-only.

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Model Specs

Released2026-10-20
Parameters744B total, 40B active
Context1M
ArchitectureMixture of Experts