Vercel AI Gateway: Zero Data Retention now $0.10 per 1k requests on top of model spend

Vercel expanded AI Gateway ZDR coverage to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and others on 6 April 2026, and at the same time moved team-wide ZDR behind a per-request fee: $0.10 per 1,000 successful requests on Pro and Enterprise. For a million-request-a-month workload that's $100 over and above gateway and model fees, which is small for consumer SaaS but a real line item for high-throughput agent backends. The broader pattern: cloud privacy features ship free during adoption, then move to a meter once enterprise procurement has them in requirements. Stripe did this with Radar, Cloudflare with Bot Management; Vercel is next.