Neon's 2 October 2026 post adds POST /v1/embeddings on AI Gateway, with qwen3-embedding-0-6b at $0.02 and gte-large-en at $0.13 per million input tokens, for vectors stored in Lakebase Postgres.
Cloudflare has launched a Web Search API through AI Gateway with Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup. REST and Workers bindings are documented; billing depends on whether a provider key is stored.
Kong (Sep 30, 2026) shipped Context Management GA inside Kong AI Management. Code Mode lets agents search → schema → execute instead of loading every API operation as an MCP tool.
Sep 30 User Insights update for AI Gateway: model-fit Overkill/Appropriate/Underpowered, task+turns analysis, Potential Savings. Free for Gateway users (inference still billed). Distinct from Auto Router. Async ~1 day lag; log classification opt-in per gateway.
Cloudflare opened Monetization Gateway in closed beta (Sep 30, 2026): HTTP 402 + x402 inline pay-per-request for sites, APIs, MCP tools, and datasets. Settlement rails as CF states (USDC on Base via Coinbase Facilitator)—not crypto advice. Distinct from Pay Per Use content metering. US buyers/sellers; API2PDF >50% drop-off is vendor-reported.
Cloudflare’s Auto Router is in public beta via AI Gateway (blog Sep 30, 2026): set model to cloudflare/auto and a classifier picks from an eligible pool. Router is free in beta; upstream inference still billed. ~30% OpenCode savings and internal benches are Cloudflare-reported only. WebSockets not yet supported.
agentgateway 1.5 puts one Rust proxy and one policy language in front of LLM APIs, MCP tool servers and A2A agents. Its per-caller tool authorization is the real thing; its open-by-default settings are not production-ready.