Vercel Agent sessions now cost 67% less

Vercel reported that Vercel Agent sessions in the dashboard and Slack now cost 67% less on average after the company rebuilt how Agent manages context, reducing tokens per session and improving prompt-cache reuse. The changes, live with no action required, include workflow-based Vercel CLI skills, incremental context management for long Slack threads, improved prompt caching and more efficient coding and planning guidance. Vercel said billing rates are unchanged: paid sessions are billed at the model provider's inference rates plus a Vercel Agent fee of $0.25 per million tokens.

Vercel Agent sessions in the dashboard and Slack now cost 67% less on average. We rebuilt how Agent manages context, reducing the tokens needed per session and improving prompt-cache reuse. These improvements are live and require no action. What changed: Workflow-based CLI skills: Updated Vercel CLI skills give agents clearer guidance for common workflows and error recovery. Other agents using these skills also benefit. Incremental context management: Agent manages context more efficiently as conversations grow, including long Slack threads. Improved prompt caching: Agent preserves more reusable context across turns so more of it can be read from the cache. More efficient coding and planning: Updated guidance helps Agent plan changes and write code with fewer tokens. Vercel Agent’s billing rates https://vercel.com/docs/agent/pricing are unchanged. Paid sessions are billed at the model provider’s inference rates plus a Vercel Agent fee of $0.25 per million tokens. View usage and costs in the Agent section https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fagent%2Fusage&title=Vercel+Agent+Usage of your dashboard.