Vercel launch guide
THE LAUNCH EDIT
SAN FRANCISCO · 10.15.26

Vercel’s
next chapter.

Backends. Background workers. Agents.
Seven things to know about what’s next.

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A speaker on a dark stage below the illuminated Vercel triangle, viewed from the audience.
FROM THE ROOM · A STILL FROM OUR EVENT CLIP
THE TOOLANDTEA TAKE

Vercel is making room for the whole application: the Python backend, the worker behind the scenes, and the agent that picks up where it left off. Here’s what changed at Ship SF, why it matters, and where to start exploring.

Checked October 15, 2026. Python, Daemons, Token Pass, and Drives have new launch milestones today. Connect adds Secure Compute support. The Agent Stack and eve were introduced in June; they’re the context for how the pieces come together.

Python

Python, with a place at the table.

Generally available

Your Python backend can share the same home as your frontend.

Python on Vercel is now generally available. FastAPI, Flask, and Django get automatic framework detection, with standard CPython, PyPI packages, and support for uv and pyproject.toml.

Vercel Services brings the frontend and backend into one project with shared previews, deployments, and rollbacks. Native SDKs cover models, storage, queues, and more; the AI SDK and Workflow SDK for Python remain in beta.

Imagine building

A small creative app with a React interface and a Python API that analyzes uploaded images.

Read the Python announcement (opens in a new tab)
Official Vercel artwork announcing Python’s general availability, with an outlined Python logo.
Python moves into general availability.Vercel (opens in a new tab)
Daemons

Some work needs to keep going.

Public beta

Meet Daemons: background workers that stay running between jobs.

Now in public beta, Daemons runs containerized processes that pull work from queues, databases, or other systems. You choose the instance count in each region; Vercel maintains it and restarts workers that exit or crash.

That fits Celery workers, Kafka consumers, Temporal workers, and CI runners. Launch support focuses on pull-based work, so these workers don’t need an inbound HTTP server.

Imagine building

A video pipeline that picks up uploads, generates thumbnails, and prepares playback files in the background.

Explore Daemons (opens in a new tab)
Vercel Daemons launch graphic with a black background and outlined geometric shapes.
A new home for continuously running workers.Vercel (opens in a new tab)
Connect

Give your agent the right access.

Secure Compute update

Connect is the bridge to the tools and data an agent needs.

Vercel Connect handles provider credentials and OAuth flows so your app can request scoped access at runtime. It connects apps and agents to services such as Slack, GitHub, Linear, and Snowflake.

New today: Secure Compute routing lets supported connectors obtain and refresh tokens through a selected network’s dedicated IPs. That helps with providers that require an IP allowlist. Your app’s direct API traffic is unchanged by this setting.

Imagine building

A research assistant that reads approved project context from Linear before preparing a brief.

Vercel Connect artwork showing its Add Connection provider picker.
The Connect product artwork from its original launch.Vercel (opens in a new tab)
FROM THE ROOM

A little of the launch energy.

The lights, the stage, and the moment everything resolves into that familiar triangle.

An 18-second silent excerpt from the event video provided by toolandtea. Press play to watch.

DEVIN / TOOLANDTEA
A speaker in front of an expansive patterned stage screen, with the audience in the foreground.
Another frame from the same event video.
Agent Stack

One stack. All the moving parts.

The bigger picture

The Agent Stack is Vercel’s collection of building blocks for agents.

Introduced in June, it connects model access, durable work, isolated execution, external services, and chat delivery. You can choose the pieces your app needs, or use eve to assemble them into an agent framework.

01 / THINK

AI SDK + AI Gateway

Call models through a common interface and route requests across providers.

02 / DO

Workflow + Sandbox

Resume work after interruptions and run generated code in an isolated environment.

03 / CONNECT

Connect + Chat SDK

Access external services and bring the agent into the places people work.

Explore the Agent Stack (opens in a new tab)
Token Pass

A pass for your next coding session.

Early access · Pro

Token Pass bundles credit for a selection of models through AI Gateway.

At launch, Pro teams can join early access for $30 per month, with $80 in monthly credit for GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3. The team shares that credit across compatible coding tools or a personal agent built with the AI SDK.

Unused credit doesn’t roll over. Requests stop when it runs out, with no automatic overages. The subscription renews monthly unless canceled, and Zero Data Retention is enabled by default.

Launch terms checked October 15. This covers the included models, not every model on AI Gateway.

Check Token Pass details (opens in a new tab)
Two blue model cards labeled Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 tucked into a black stitched wallet.
Vercel’s Token Pass launch artwork.Vercel (opens in a new tab)
Drives

New sandbox. Same files.

Generally available

Drives gives an agent a workspace that lasts beyond one run.

Vercel Drives is now generally available for Sandbox on all plans. Create a drive once, then mount it into a new sandbox when the next task needs a different environment.

Agents can reuse prepared data, mount read-only copies, or fork a drive into separate writable workspaces. Each fork can explore its own approach; forks don’t merge back into the original.

Imagine building

An assistant that prepares a dataset today, then opens the same files tomorrow to make a chart.

Explore Drives (opens in a new tab)
Vercel Drives launch artwork featuring a glossy black hard drive on a black background.
Persistent storage for agents. Official concept artwork.Vercel (opens in a new tab)
eve

Meet eve. An agent, organized.

Framework · public beta

An open-source framework that gives the agent a structure.

Introduced June 17 and in public beta, eve brings the Agent Stack together. Instructions live in Markdown, tools in TypeScript, and the agent’s skills, channels, and schedules live alongside them in a directory.

Durable sessions, sandboxed compute, human approvals, subagents, and evals are built in. The appeal is spending more time defining the work the agent should do.

Imagine building

A weekly research assistant that gathers sources, drafts a report, and waits for approval before sharing it.

The white eve wordmark on Vercel’s black launch artwork.
eve’s original June launch artwork.Vercel (opens in a new tab)
A black-and-white collage of Vercel’s Python team demonstrating tools and meeting attendees at PyCon US 2026.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLATFORM

Built by people. Made for builders.

Vercel’s Python team at PyCon US 2026. An earlier moment from the year, shared in today’s Python launch story.

Photo & story: Vercel (opens in a new tab)
PICK A STARTING POINT

What will you ship next?

Sources & image credits

Researched October 15, 2026 using Vercel’s own announcements. Product availability and Token Pass terms reflect that date. The building ideas above are toolandtea examples, not tested implementations.

Product artwork and the PyCon photo © Vercel, used here with links to their original announcements. Event stills and the silent clip were extracted from toolandtea’s supplied video. The PyCon photo is from a separate event. Independent coverage by toolandtea.

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