# Claude Opus 4\.1 is now supported in Vercel AI Gateway

**Published:** August 5, 2025 | **Authors:** Walter Korman , Harpreet Arora, Rohan Taneja, Josh Lipman

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You can now access [Claude Opus 4.1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1), a new model released today, using Vercel's [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway) with no other provider accounts required. This release from Anthropic improves agentic task execution, real-world coding, and reasoning over the previous Opus 4 model.

AI Gateway lets you call the model with a consistent unified API and just a single string update, track usage and cost, and configure performance optimizations, retries, and failover for higher than provider-average uptime.

To use it with the [AI SDK v5]( https://v5.ai-sdk.dev/docs/introduction), start by installing the package:

```bash
pnpm i ai
```

Then set the model to `anthropic/claude-4.1-opus`:

```tsx
import { streamText } from 'ai'
const result = streamText({
  model: "anthropic/claude-4.1-opus",
  prompt: "what's the history of Taqueria La Cumbre in San Francisco?" 
})
```

Includes built-in [observability](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/observability), [Bring Your Own Key support](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway#configuring-your-own-provider-keys-byok), and intelligent [provider routing](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/provider-options) with automatic retries.

To deliver high performance and reliability to Claude Opus 4.1, AI Gateway leverages multiple model providers under the hood, including Anthropic and Bedrock.

Learn more about [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway) and view the [new AI Gateway model leaderboard](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway).

**AI Gateway: Track top AI models by usage**
The AI Gateway model leaderboard tracks the most popular models over time, ranking them by the total volume of tokens processed across all Gateway traffic.
[View the leaderboard](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards)

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