Overview
v0 by Vercel combines a conversational web workspace with a development agent capable of generating production-grade code, building interactive screens, and structuring complete applications. Starting from text instructions, screenshots, or Figma files, you can create anything from isolated components to full pages with backend logic, API routes, and database connections.
During development, the tool runs the project in a secure live preview environment and provides Design Mode for direct visual adjustments on the screen. You can click any element to modify typography, colors, spacing, and styles compatible with Tailwind CSS, or combine manual tweaks with new text prompts. The agent also searches the web, inspects the running app in the browser, executes terminal commands in the sandbox, and resolves code or dependency errors.
When a project needs to scale across a team or go live, v0 connects to GitHub repositories through working branches and pull requests, while deploying applications directly to Vercel's infrastructure. For builders who want to embed these capabilities into their own products or automated pipelines, the platform offers an iOS app, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and a dedicated API with a TypeScript SDK.
Features and functionality
- Full-stack interface and application generation: creates React components, Next.js pages, server routes, and complete user flows from natural language instructions, reference images, or templates.
- Visual Design Mode: lets you select elements in the live preview to adjust fonts, colors, margins, borders, and copy in a visual panel that writes changes directly back to the source code.
- Sandboxed agent with automated diagnostics: runs commands in an isolated terminal, navigates the running application to test user flows, searches documentation on the web, and automatically fixes build or deployment errors.
- Figma file import: reads pages, frames, design tokens, auto layout, and assets from connected Figma files on paid plans to transform them into functional screens.
- GitHub synchronization: creates isolated working branches, generates per-branch previews, opens pull requests, and tracks continuous integration checks without overwriting the main branch without review.
- Vercel Marketplace and MCP integrations: connects databases, payment systems, and AI providers through the Vercel Marketplace, while supporting custom or preconfigured MCP servers during generation.
- Developer API and SDK: provides REST endpoints and the v0-sdk package to programmatically manage generation chats, embed secure previews, and integrate the agent into external systems.
Use cases
- Rapid prototyping for product and design: turn ideas, wireframes, or Figma screens into high-fidelity, navigable prototypes to validate user flows with stakeholders and teams before allocating engineering capacity.
- Building MVPs and full-stack web apps: structure admin dashboards, storefronts, internal tools, and SaaS applications connected to databases such as Supabase, Neon, or Upstash.
- Creating landing pages and marketing sites: assemble and refine responsive promotional pages with visual editing in Design Mode and fast deployment to a custom domain on Vercel.
- Front-end acceleration for engineers: generate React components styled with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui, build custom hooks, and open pull requests directly in the team's GitHub repository.
- Data analysis and visualization: build interactive dashboards, SQL queries, and visual reports connected to external data sources and services like Snowflake.
How to use
- Visit v0.dev in your browser, sign in to your account, and describe the application or component you want to build in the main prompt field, attaching reference images or choosing a template if preferred.
- Follow the generation in the real-time preview and use either the chat or the Design tab to refine styles, copy, layout structure, and element behavior.
- If your project requires data persistence or external services, open the project settings to connect Vercel Marketplace integrations, environment variables, MCP servers, or a GitHub repository.
- Review the generated code in the built-in viewer, verify that all flows behave as expected, and click publish to deploy on Vercel or open a pull request for team review.
Required experience level
The web interface and Design Mode are accessible to beginners, designers, product managers, and founders, enabling them to build, customize, and publish pages using natural language and visual controls. Meanwhile, features such as GitHub branch synchronization, database configuration, MCP servers, and programmatic access via the API and v0-sdk are best suited for intermediate and advanced users familiar with web architecture and version control.
Integrations
v0 offers native integration with the Vercel platform and the Vercel Marketplace, making it easy to connect managed databases such as Neon, Supabase, and Upstash, payment processing with Stripe, AI model providers, and data or commerce platforms like Snowflake and Shopify. The system synchronizes code bidirectionally with GitHub, imports structures from Figma on paid plans, and supports Model Context Protocol connections with tools such as Linear, Notion, Sentry, PostHog, Contentful, Sanity, and Zapier. Developers can also leverage the v0 API and official SDK to integrate the agent into IDEs, external agents, and custom pipelines.
Plans and pricing
The platform provides a free plan that includes a monthly credit allowance, daily message limits, access to Design Mode, GitHub synchronization, and deployment on Vercel. For professional and collaborative workflows, individual and per-seat paid plans for teams and enterprises expand credit balances, unlock all models, enable project sharing, and add enterprise capabilities such as centralized billing, access controls, and privacy options to opt out of data training. Because pricing tiers, daily limits, and per-model credit consumption vary by plan, check the official pricing page before subscribing.
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