Build your own AI app builder with the v0 Platform API

Learn how to build, extend, and automate AI-generated apps with programmatic access to v0’s app generation pipeline

The v0 Platform API is a text-to-app API that gives developers direct access to the same infrastructure powering v0.dev.

Currently in beta, the platform API exposes a composable interface for developers to automate building web apps, integrate code generation into existing features, and build new products on top of LLM-generated UIs.

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The Platform API is a REST interface that wraps v0’s full code generation lifecycle: prompt → project → code files → deployment. Every app built with the platform API is backed by a v0.dev chat link.

It includes endpoints for almost all functionality on v0.dev:

Natural language app generation: Generate full-stack web apps from natural language prompts and get back parsed code files and a live demo URL
Bring your own context: Start chats with your own files, from source code, git, or shadcn registry, or include attachments in individual messages
Projects and deployments: Create new Vercel projects, link Vercel projects to a chat, and trigger deploys

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The v0 SDK is a TypeScript library that makes it simple to interact with the v0 Platform API.

pnpm install v0-sdk

Get your API key from your v0 account settings and set it as an environment variable:

.env

V0_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Now, you can integrate v0's AI-powered code generation into your application. Learn more in our complete Quickstart Guide.

import { v0 } from "v0-sdk"

export default async function V0Chat() {  
  // No initialization needed - uses V0_API_KEY automatically  
  const chat = await v0.chats.create({
    message: "Build a todo app with React and TypeScript"
  })

  // Access the generated files
  chat.files?.forEach((file) => {
    console.log(`File: ${file.name}`)
    console.log(`Content: ${file.content}`)
  })

  // Use the Demo URL in an iframe
  return (
    <iframe
      src={chat.demo}
      width="100%"
      height="600">
    </iframe>
  )
}

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The Platform API turns v0 into a headless app builder. Developers are already using it to power:

Website builders where users can describe a site and get production-ready code
Slack and Discord bots that return deployed web applications
VSCode plugins and CLIs that build around the prompt-to-app workflow
Embedded flows in analytics or CRM tools that generate UI components from natural language
Custom dev environments and agents that read user intent and return live apps with demo links

claire vo 🖤

@clairevo

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ok < 24 hrs later i got @v0 x @chatprd working locally ✅ generate a PRD ✅ send to v0 ✅ preview prototype in ChatPRD ✅ banger pop punk anthem + demo props to @vercel and @ctatedev who are delightfully responsive to SDK and docs questions

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Guillermo Rauch

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Headless @v0 is here: 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝 { 𝚟𝟶 } 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 '𝚟𝟶-𝚜𝚍𝚔' 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚟𝟶.𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚜.𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎({ 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎: '𝙱𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎', 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖: '𝚈𝚘𝚞’𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚝' }) vercel.com/changelog/v0-p…

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ChatPRD generates product requirements, then uses the v0 API to create a live prototype that teams can preview directly in the app’s canvas.

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Check out the v0 Platform API template, a Next.js application demonstrating the v0 Platform API and features like project management, chat history, and real-time app generation with live previews.

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