Using Restormel with Vercel AI Gateway

If you’re already using Vercel AI Gateway, keep it as your provider access layer. Restormel Keys integrates as a control layer for routing policies, fallbacks, health checks, cost logic, and embeddable UX.

What stays where

  • Vercel AI Gateway owns: gateway authentication, gateway endpoint, Vercel-side usage/observability
  • You own: where gateway credentials live (env/secrets manager), your app’s call sites
  • Restormel owns: routes/policies/health config and the control-plane dashboard

Adoption path

  1. Inventory your current setup. Identify models, fallbacks, and where gateway keys are configured.
  2. Model Restormel routes/policies. Capture your desired behavior in Restormel without changing execution yet.
  3. Resolve then execute via Vercel. Ask Restormel for the decision; send the request via Vercel AI Gateway.
  4. Progressively enforce. Turn on policies and fallbacks step-by-step.
Key principle — Restormel doesn’t need to store Vercel gateway credentials. Keep them where they already live; Restormel focuses on governance.