Comparison · AI Gateways
AI Gateways & LLM Routing Compared
An open, side-by-side comparison of AI gateways and LLM routers, the layer that sits between your app and the model providers to route, cache, govern and observe traffic. Capability facts are public and drawn from each provider; the rank is decided by the people who run them, never by payment.
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●The comparison facts on this page are open and drawn from each provider. The rank is decided by community votes, never by payment.
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How to read thisEvery value comes straight from the provider's own site.Contact sales means they do not publish a price.Not disclosed or — means the spec is not stated on their site.We never fill blanks with guesses.
| # | Provider | Type | Open source | Semantic cache | Observability | Guardrails | Rating | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PO Portkey US | Gateway | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 2 | CA Cloudflare AI Gateway US | Gateway | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | ||
| 3 | KA Kong AI Gateway US | Gateway | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 4 | HE Helicone US | Gateway | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ||
| 5 | VA Vercel AI Gateway US | Gateway | — | — | ✓ | — | ||
| 6 | TR TrueFoundry US | Gateway | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 7 | LA LangDB US | Gateway | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 8 | RE Requesty US | Gateway | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | ||
| 9 | LI LiteLLM US | Proxy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 10 | OP OpenRouter US | Router | — | — | — | — | ||
| 11 | MA Martian US | Router | — | — | — | — | ||
| 12 | UN Unify GB | Router | — | — | — | — |
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