Features
- Next.js App Router
- Advanced routing for seamless navigation and performance
- React Server Components (RSCs) and Server Actions for server-side rendering and increased performance
- AI SDK
- Unified API for generating text, structured objects, and tool calls with LLMs
- Hooks for building dynamic chat and generative user interfaces
- Supports xAI (default), OpenAI, Fireworks, and other model providers
- shadcn/ui
- Data Persistence
- Auth.js
- Simple and secure authentication
Model Providers
This template uses the Vercel AI Gateway to access multiple AI models through a unified interface. The default configuration includes xAI models (grok-2-vision-1212, grok-3-mini) routed through the gateway.
AI Gateway Authentication
For Vercel deployments: Authentication is handled automatically via OIDC tokens.
For non-Vercel deployments: You need to provide an AI Gateway API key by setting the AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY environment variable in your .env.local file.
With the AI SDK, you can also switch to direct LLM providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and many more with just a few lines of code.
Running locally
You will need to use the environment variables defined in .env.example to run Next.js AI Chatbot. It's recommended you use Vercel Environment Variables for this, but a .env file is all that is necessary.
Note: You should not commit your .env file or it will expose secrets that will allow others to control access to your various AI and authentication provider accounts.
Stripe Configuration
The billing system requires proper Stripe setup:
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Create a Stripe account at https://dashboard.stripe.com/
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Run STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=sk_live_... npx tsx scripts/setup-stripe.ts to create products/prices
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Add the returned price IDs to your .env.local
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Install Vercel CLI: npm i -g vercel
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Link local instance with Vercel and GitHub accounts (creates .vercel directory): vercel link
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Download your environment variables: vercel env pull
pnpm install
pnpm dev
Your app template should now be running on localhost:3000.
