{"slug": "additive-vercel-justification-is-now-optional", "title": "[Additive] Vercel: justification is now optional", "summary": "Vercel has made the justification parameter optional on its AI Gateway budget endpoints, according to the company's published API specification. The change affects code calling DELETE /ai-gateway/budgets/defaults and DELETE /ai-gateway/budgets, where justification moves from absent to an optional query parameter, and Vercel states no action is needed for affected callers.", "body_md": "## What changed\n\nNo action needed.\n\nAffects `DELETE /ai-gateway/budgets/defaults`.\n\n## Who is affected\n\nCode that sends DELETE /ai-gateway/budgets/defaults (justification).\n\n## Before and after\n\n| Where | Before | After | \n|---|---|---|\n| DELETE /ai-gateway/budgets/defaults · justification | absent | query:justification | \n| DELETE /ai-gateway/budgets · justification | absent | query:justification | \n\nBased on Vercel’s published API specification. [How severity is decided](https://driftwatch.et/method).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/additive-vercel-justification-is-now-optional", "canonical_source": "https://driftwatch.et/changes/vercel-2026-11-03-070ac82d", "published_at": "2026-11-03 23:24:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-04 00:20:14.907055+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Vercel", "Vercel AI Gateway"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/additive-vercel-justification-is-now-optional", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/additive-vercel-justification-is-now-optional.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/additive-vercel-justification-is-now-optional.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/additive-vercel-justification-is-now-optional.jsonld"}}