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Vercel trials flat-rate CDN pricing and lines up its sandbox as the runtime for managed AI agents.

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◆Current state
Vercel opened a Limited Beta of Flat Rate CDN for Pro teams — fixed monthly fee instead of usage-based bandwidth — and shipped a Claude Managed Agents integration for Vercel Sandbox in the same week. AI Gateway gained Gemini 3.5 Flash and provider sorting by cost, latency, or throughput. Around that, Firewall-mitigated traffic became free, monorepos got consolidated GitHub commit statuses, and Trusted Sources brought OIDC to deployment protection.
◆Where it's heading
Two strategic moves are visible: a hedge against the usage-pricing backlash (Flat Rate CDN, free firewall-mitigated traffic) and a serious bid to host AI agent workloads (Sandbox + Claude Managed Agents, AI Gateway provider routing controls). Developer-experience polish continues underneath — natural-language WAF rules, native curl in CLI, protected source maps.
◆Prediction
Expect Flat Rate to widen from CDN to compute and ISR cache once the beta closes, and Vercel Sandbox to gain integrations with at least one more major agent runtime beyond Claude.

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