DeepSeek models now available via Azure on AI Gateway

Azure now offers DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4 Flash models through AI Gateway, providing users with an additional failover path for requests. The integration requires no code changes, as default routing automatically considers Azure, with fallback to other providers if needed. Users can bring their own Azure credentials to leverage existing keys for requests routed through the gateway.

Azure is now a provider for DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4 Flash on AI Gateway https://vercel.com/ai-gateway . Requests to either model can route through Azure alongside the existing providers for another failover path. No code changes are required: default routing considers Azure automatically, and if a provider fails the gateway falls back through the remaining list. If you want requests to try Azure first, use order in the gateway provider options to prefer Azure while keeping the other providers as fallback for deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash in the AI SDK https://ai-sdk.dev/ : If you have existing Azure credentials, you can bring your own key and AI Gateway will use it for requests routed to Azure. See API key authentication and BYOK https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok for setup. AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting https://vercel.com/changelog/custom-reporting-ai-gateway , Zero Data Retention support https://vercel.com/blog/zdr-on-ai-gateway , budgets for API keys https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/api-keys , and more. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway bring-your-own-key BYOK requests. Learn more about AI Gateway https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway , view the AI Gateway model leaderboard https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards or try it in our model playground https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/deepseek-v4-pro .