Claude Opus 4.1 on Vercel AI Gateway

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Why use Claude Opus 4.1 on Vercel AI Gateway?

Vercel AI Gateway offers Claude Opus 4.1 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $15.00/1M input tokens. 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.

Compare Claude Opus 4.1 across 5 providers to find the best fit for your use case
Input / 1M
$15.00
Output / 1M
$75.00
Cache
read $1.50
Batch
Not sourced

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
anthropic/claude-opus-4.1

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="anthropic/claude-opus-4.1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Gotchas

  • Use provider model ID "anthropic/claude-opus-4.1", not the LLMReference slug "claude-opus-4-1".
  • 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 Claude Opus 4.1 Across Providers

ProviderInput (per 1M)Output (per 1M)
Anthropic$15.00$75.00
AWS Bedrock$15.00$75.00
OpenRouter$15.00$75.00
Microsoft Foundry$15.00$75.00
Vercel AI Gateway$15.00$75.00

Pricing

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$15.00
Output tokens$75.00
Query$10.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalStructured Outputs

About Claude Opus 4.1

Claude Opus 4.1 is Anthropic's Claude 4 model. It offers a 200K-token context window and scores 77.1 on MMMU.

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