Is there a Vercel AI Gateway alternative for a team's Claude Code?

When your own apps already run on Vercel or the AI SDK. The AI SDK has an AI Gateway provider, and a Vercel deployment can authenticate with its OIDC token instead of a stored key.

When you want many models on one bill. The gateway lists 400+ models across text, image, video, speech and embeddings. You pay the provider's list price from AI Gateway Credits, or bring your own provider keys at no markup.

When you need more coding tools. Its setup command configures 29 agents, among them Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cline, Goose, Kilo Code and Zed beside Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode.

When you want routing rules. Requests fail over across providers and fallback models, and a virtual model in Claude Code's /model picker carries its own provider order, fallbacks, regional inference and zero data retention. A team-wide rule can deny a model or rewrite it to another.

If no team runs coding tools through a gateway, you do not need Selan.

Two ways, and the credential that reaches Anthropic decides who pays.

With an API key, a developer runs npx vercel@latest ai-gateway setup --agent claude-code. It sets ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/claude-code in ~/.claude/settings.json, empties ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and turns on gateway model discovery. On macOS it keeps the key in the Keychain and exports it as ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN from the shell startup file. Requests are paid from the team's AI Gateway Credits, or by your own provider key.

With a Claude subscription, the AI Gateway key moves to an x-ai-gateway-api-key header in ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS. The developer logs in to Claude Code with their own Claude account, and their plan's usage limits apply. The setup command does not write this; it is set by hand.

The gateway's models appear in /model with a claude-code/ prefix. Claude Desktop is switched by hand, under Developer, Configure Third-Party Inference.

A budget caps spend for the team, a project, one API key or one member. Every budget in scope is checked before each request, and the request is refused if any one of them is exceeded.

A member's budget covers every API key attributed to them. New keys are attributed to the member who creates them, and a default budget can cap every member, key or project that has none of its own.

Days reset at midnight UTC, weeks on Monday and months on the 1st; a budget can also never reset. Once over, the gateway answers with an HTTP 402 of type quota_for_entity_exceeded. Email alerts can go out at 50%, 75% and 100%.

Owners and members with the AI Gateway Budget Manager permission set team and member budgets. Anyone who can edit a key can set that key's budget.

When the traffic is a team's coding tools and nobody wants to hand out keys. A developer runs selan login with Google or Microsoft, then selan claude, selan codex or selan opencode. Claude Desktop goes through the same gateway with one settings file.

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Claude Desktop go into one usage record per person. A limit per person applies across every pay-per-use key.

An owner connects the company's accounts and keys once, and switches on the models the team may use. No provider key reaches a laptop. With secret scanning on, a secret it recognises is replaced before the request leaves.

The trade-off is that requests travel through Selan, so if Selan is unavailable those requests fail. Your accounts can still be used directly.

Which providers serve which models is in models and providers, limits per person are on the spend page, and scanning is in the secret scanning docs.

Remove the marked block the setup command added to your shell startup file. Then remove ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS and CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY wherever they are set, including the env block of ~/.claude/settings.json. The command saved a .bak copy of each file it changed. Switch Claude Desktop's inference provider back by hand.

Then run selan login and selan claude. Connect the company's Anthropic accounts or keys in Selan and switch on their models. You can keep Vercel AI Gateway for your own apps and run the team's coding tools through Selan. Keeping provider keys off laptops is covered in Claude Code without API keys on laptops, and the kinds of gateway in Claude Code gateways.

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