Vercel MCP Server

The Vercel MCP Server is the official Model Context Protocol connection to your own Vercel projects, hosted by Vercel itself. Instead of switching between the Vercel dashboard, terminal, and AI assistant, a coding agent connects directly to your Vercel account and can manage projects, analyze deployments and build logs, query Web Analytics data, and search Vercel documentation — all through natural language chat in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or other supported clients.

What the server does

Per the provider, the tool catalog is organized into several areas: documentation tools for targeted searches of Vercel docs by topic, project management tools for listing teams and projects and retrieving project details like framework and domains, deployment tools for listing deployments, retrieving individual deployment details, and analyzing build logs with targeted filtering on error lines, and tools for querying visitors, page views, and custom events from Web Analytics. Each tool is documented with a sample prompt you can send directly to the connected AI assistant, such as "Show me all deployments for my blog project."

Public and authenticated tools

The provider distinguishes between two tool categories: public tools that work without authentication — such as documentation search — and authenticated tools that require a Vercel sign-in to access projects, deployments, and analytics data. This separation allows the server to be used for pure documentation research without linking your own Vercel account.

Supported clients and setup

Per the provider, the server implements the latest MCP Authorization and Streamable HTTP specifications and is reachable at https://mcp.vercel.com. Officially supported clients include Claude Code, Claude.ai and Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex CLI, Cursor, Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot, Devin, Raycast, Goose, Windsurf, and Gemini Code Assist and Gemini CLI; per the provider, additional clients will be added over time. For security reasons, Vercel MCP only supports clients that Vercel has previously reviewed and approved. Setup can be automated for many clients with a one-line command via the add-mcp CLI tool, which automatically detects installed AI clients and configures them.

Authentication

Sign-in happens via OAuth through the respective MCP client; a manually created access token is not needed for regular use. After adding the server, the client prompts for authorization and opens a browser window to sign in to your Vercel account.

Status, license, and cost

Per the provider, Vercel MCP is in beta and available on all Vercel plans without separate additional costs; use is subject to Vercel's Public Beta Agreement and AI Product Terms. An existing Vercel account is required.

Security note

Vercel explicitly recommends enabling human confirmation for tool execution and exercising particular caution when using multiple MCP servers simultaneously, to avoid prompt injection attacks.

Who benefits most

The server is especially useful for development teams already hosting applications on Vercel: analyzing build errors directly in the editor, checking deployment status without switching to the dashboard, or evaluating Web Analytics metrics right inside a chat with the AI assistant. For pure documentation research, unauthenticated use of the public tools alone is enough.

An existing Vercel account plus an MCP client reviewed and approved by Vercel (including Claude Code, Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Codex CLI, Cursor, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI). No Vercel account is needed for pure documentation search.

The fastest setup uses the add-mcp CLI tool, which automatically detects and configures installed clients:

npx -y add-mcp https://mcp.vercel.com -g

For Claude Code manually:

claude mcp add --transport http vercel https://mcp.vercel.com

Then run /mcp to start authentication. For Codex CLI:

codex mcp add vercel --url https://mcp.vercel.com

Codex automatically opens the browser for authorization. For Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT, and other clients, the official documentation provides one-click install links or step-by-step instructions.

npx -y add-mcp https://mcp.vercel.com -g

OAuth via the respective MCP client; no manually created access token needed for regular use. After adding the server, the client opens a browser window to sign in to your Vercel account.

Public tools (e.g. documentation search) work without authentication. Authenticated tools for projects, deployments, and analytics act strictly with the permissions of the signed-in Vercel account.

Requests run through Vercel-hosted infrastructure at mcp.vercel.com. Authenticated responses contain data from your own Vercel account (project configuration, deployment metadata, build logs, Web Analytics metrics) and are returned to the MCP client and its language model.

Vercel recommends enabling human confirmation for tool execution and exercising particular caution when using multiple MCP servers simultaneously, to avoid prompt injection attacks. For security reasons, only clients reviewed by Vercel are supported.