Using Claude Opus 4.1 on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Claude 4 · Anthropic

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Claude Opus 4.1 through model ID anthropic/claude-opus-4.1. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

1
Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call anthropic/claude-opus-4.1 — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $15.00/1M input, $75.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

anthropic/claude-opus-4.1

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

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)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Price (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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Model Specs

Released2025-08-01

Context200k

Knowledge cutoff2025-03

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