Pixel Canary now available in stealth on AI Gateway
Pixel Canary, a new AI model optimized for coding and frontend development, is now available for free in stealth on Vercel's AI Gateway. The model achieves 90.3% success on Next.js evals and 96.8% with documentation, enabling developers to use it for app migrations, data fetching, and web interface implementation.
is now available on as . It's free for a limited time while in stealth.Pixel CanaryAI Gatewaystealth/pixel-canary
Pixel Canary is strong at coding, including building applications and refactoring existing code. It is well suited to frontend development and mobile app design, from responsive layouts and app screens to navigation and interactive components.
On , Pixel Canary ties at a 90.3% baseline success rate, passing 28 of 31 tasks. With Next.js documentation supplied through , it passes 30 of 31 tasks (96.8%), tying the leaderboard's top score in that setting.Next.js evalsGPT 6 Astra (high)AGENTS.md
It passes tasks covering App Router migrations, data fetching, image and font optimization, caching, and view transitions, demonstrating its ability to implement and update the code behind web interfaces. Scores use pass@4: a task passes if any of up to four attempts succeeds.
ZDR is not available for this model, and prompts and responses sent through it may be used for training and model improvement.
To get started, set to :modelstealth/pixel-canary
To use Pixel Canary in your , run the setup command with the :coding agentVercel CLI
The command detects installed agents, provisions or reuses an AI Gateway API key, and configures their connection to the gateway. Then select in your agent's model configuration.stealth/pixel-canary
AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, with built-in , , and .usage and cost trackingbudgets for API keysrouting rules
Try Pixel Canary in the .model playground
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