Using Imagen 4 on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Imagen · Google DeepMind

Serverless

Vercel AI Gateway exposes Imagen 4 through model ID google/imagen-4.0-generate-001. 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 google/imagen-4.0-generate-001 — see the documentation for request format.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

google/imagen-4.0-generate-001

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="google/imagen-4.0-generate-001",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Rate
Image input	$0.04

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Imagen 4

Imagen 4 is Google DeepMind's Imagen model focused on image generation. It was released 2024-11-01.

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Model Specs

Released2024-11-01

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