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Vercel AI Gateway rejects dubious token promos, prioritizing trustworthy providers and data privacy

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Vercel says its AI Gateway turns down "free token" promotions from companies making dubious Zero Data Retention claims, prioritizing the best providers over provider count.

The company argues it has the largest trustworthy view of global AI token flows, citing real usage from 400k+ paying customers, thousands of enterprises, and zero markup.

It says it invests as heavily in legal, compliance, privacy, and back-office operations as in engineering to serve trillions of tokens daily.

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Most token aggregators have extreme noise from ① token promos from/to providers that train on your data or ② providers that *claim* to be ZDR.

Vercel AI Gateway is the largest trustworthy datasource to understand global AI token flows, because we have real usage, from real customers, an at-scale platform (400k+ paying customers and thousands of enterprises), and zero markup.

Notably… every week we turn down "free token" promos from companies that come to us with dubious claims of Zero Data Retention (ZDR) and questionable reputations. We also don't get a kick out of having the "most providers". Most providers suck. You want the *best* providers.

We put in as much work in engineering our gateway, as in our legal, compliance, privacy, and backoffice operations to responsibly serve trillions of tokens every day. We're here for the long haul.

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