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Vercel unveils agent tools as deployments turn AI-led

Vercel unveils agent tools as deployments turn AI-led

Fri, 19th Jun 2026 (Today)
Mark Tarre
MARK TARRE News Chief

Vercel has introduced a new group of products for building, deploying and managing AI agents, expanding its agent-focused infrastructure platform.

The announcements include Vercel Services, the Agent Stack, an open-source framework called eve, Vercel Agent, and a package for larger organisations called Vercel for Enterprise Apps and Agents.

The expansion comes as usage on Vercel's platform shifts sharply towards software created or operated by coding agents. Fewer than 3% of deployments on its infrastructure were triggered by coding agents six months ago, compared with more than half now.

Traffic through its AI Gateway has also risen steeply. Monthly token volume increased tenfold over the same period, from about two trillion to 20 trillion.

Those figures provide context for Vercel's broader push beyond its roots in frontend development. Over the past year, it has invested heavily in Python and backend frameworks, and a growing share of customers now run backends and databases alongside frontends on its platform.

Among the new products, Vercel Services is aimed at teams that want to deploy frontends, backends and other services within a single project. It lets those services communicate privately with one another and generates one preview URL for the whole application from a single commit.

Customers including OpenAI and Octopus Energy already run Next.js frontends with Python backends on Vercel's infrastructure. The product is due to enter beta on July 1.

Agent tools

The Agent Stack brings together several existing Vercel tools, including AI SDK, AI Gateway, Vercel Sandbox, Workflow SDK and Chat SDK. It also adds Vercel Connect, which is designed to replace long-lived credentials with scoped short-lived tokens and audit trails.

Connect launches with integrations for Slack, GitHub, Snowflake, Salesforce, Notion and Linear. Other services can be added through OAuth or an API.

Another part of the rollout is eve, an open-source framework for building AI agents. Vercel describes it as "Next.js for agents" and says it treats an agent as a directory with built-in durability, sandboxed compute, tools, skills, integrations and human approval steps.

Vercel also introduced Vercel Agent, which is intended to help developers monitor and manage applications and agent infrastructure. It uses production traffic, traces and alerts to investigate incidents, link them to the deployment believed to have caused the issue, and suggest a fix for human approval.

Vercel Agent operates with its own scoped identity and is read-only by default. It is available in beta now.

Enterprise focus

The final element of the expansion is Vercel for Enterprise Apps and Agents, which bundles the company's software stack with identity and access controls for larger organisations. It also gives customers the option to deploy within their own AWS account.

The package includes Enterprise Managed Users for centralised management of Vercel and v0 users, and Vercel Passport, which keeps internal apps and agents behind a company identity provider by default.

The emphasis on governance and access control reflects wider pressure on technology suppliers as businesses move AI systems into live environments. For companies using agents in customer-facing or internal operations, the challenge is no longer only building the software but controlling how it accesses systems and data.

Vercel is widely known as the company behind Next.js, and this launch marks a more direct effort to define its role in software infrastructure as AI-assisted development spreads. Its latest figures suggest it sees agent-led deployment not as an experimental use case but as a mainstream pattern on its platform.

"Each new generation of software needs a new generation of infrastructure. For the agent era, that's Vercel," said Guillermo Rauch, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vercel.

"Vercel is where coding agents deploy software, where teams build and deploy their own full-stack apps and agents, and, increasingly, a place where Vercel itself can autonomously monitor your software once you deploy," Rauch said.