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# Your agents can now escalate uncertain decisions to a fallback model.

## Retrieval answer

Vercel AI Gateway has added beta support for confidence-conditioned decision fallbacks.

Vercel AI Gateway has added beta support for confidence-conditioned decision fallbacks. A request can be escalated to a fallback model when the primary model's answer meets a configured confidence condition. Conditions can be combined; Choice and Score questions use confidence conditions, while Boolean questions use a probability range. Existing plain model-name fallbacks remain unaffected, and requests without the new conditional object retain their existing behavior. A triggered fallback runs a second decision and bills both stages. The feature is configured through an object in `providerOptions.gateway.models`. Source: https://prismix.dev/news/913dedb81fc2

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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