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Build your own AI app builder with the v0 Platform API

, Alli Pope
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Learn how to build, extend, and automate AI-generated apps with programmatic access to v0’s app generation pipeline

The v0 Platform API is a text-to-app API that gives developers direct access to the same infrastructure powering v0.dev.

Currently in beta, the platform API exposes a composable interface for developers to automate building web apps, integrate code generation into existing features, and build new products on top of LLM-generated UIs.

Link to headingWhat is the v0 Platform API?

The Platform API is a REST interface that wraps v0’s full code generation lifecycle: prompt → project → code files → deployment. Every app built with the platform API is backed by a v0.dev chat link.

It includes endpoints for almost all functionality on v0.dev:

  • Natural language app generation: Generate full-stack web apps from natural language prompts and get back parsed code files and a live demo URL

  • Bring your own context: Start chats with your own files, from source code, git, or shadcn registry, or include attachments in individual messages

  • Projects and deployments: Create new Vercel projects, link Vercel projects to a chat, and trigger deploys

Link to headingHow to use the v0 Platform API

The v0 SDK is a TypeScript library that makes it simple to interact with the v0 Platform API.

pnpm install v0-sdk

Get your API key from your v0 account settings and set it as an environment variable:

.env
V0_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Now, you can integrate v0's AI-powered code generation into your application. Learn more in our complete Quickstart Guide.

import { v0 } from "v0-sdk"


export default async function V0Chat() {  
  // No initialization needed - uses V0_API_KEY automatically  
  const chat = await v0.chats.create({
    message: "Build a todo app with React and TypeScript"
  })


  // Access the generated files
  chat.files?.forEach((file) => {
    console.log(`File: ${file.name}`)
    console.log(`Content: ${file.content}`)
  })


  // Use the Demo URL in an iframe
  return (
    <iframe
      src={chat.demo}
      width="100%"
      height="600">
    </iframe>
  )
}

Link to headingWhat can you build with the Platform API?

The Platform API turns v0 into a headless app builder. Developers are already using it to power:

  • Website builders where users can describe a site and get production-ready code

  • Slack and Discord bots that return deployed web applications

  • VSCode plugins and CLIs that build around the prompt-to-app workflow

  • Embedded flows in analytics or CRM tools that generate UI components from natural language

  • Custom dev environments and agents that read user intent and return live apps with demo links

ChatPRD generates product requirements, then uses the v0 API to create a live prototype that teams can preview directly in the app’s canvas.

Link to headingGet started

Check out the v0 Platform API template, a Next.js application demonstrating the v0 Platform API and features like project management, chat history, and real-time app generation with live previews.

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