AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Aivora Gatekeeper
AI billing firewall for OpenRouter apps
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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FastRouter.aifree tier, from $199/mo▲364Route requests to the right LLM for cost, latency & quality
22d ago · fastrouter.ai · its alternatives →
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HarnessRouter Community Editionfree tier, from $20/mo▲397Open-source unified interface for agent harnesses
Aug 2026 · harnessrouter.ai · its alternatives →
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Inferock Bench▲295Local LLM cost-tracking proxy for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and pinned OpenRouter calls with token usage, failure, and billing-integrity receipts. - inferock/inferock-bench
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AIVory Guard▲62Real-time compliance & security validation for AI coding
Dec 2025 · aivory.net · its alternatives →
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Your AI agent hits an infinite loop and racks up $2000 in API charges overnight. This happens weekly to AI developers. AgentGuard monitors API calls in real-time and automatically kills your process when it hits your budget limit. How it works: Add 2 lines to any AI project: const agentGuard = require('agent-guard'); await agentGuard.init({ limit: 50 }); // $50 budget // Your existing code runs unchanged const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({...}); // AgentGuard tracks costs automatically When your code hits $50 in API costs, AgentGuard stops…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GateCtr▲2Stop LLM bill shock. Budget firewall for any AI API
Apr 2026 · gatectr.com · its alternatives →
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Sparrowgate ▲2Open-source AI API router to prevent cloud billing leaks
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Know exactly what your team is using Claude for
Jun 2026 · aitokenscope.com · its alternatives →
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On-device AI firewall — see and control AI traffic, locally
May 2026 · patronus.studio · its alternatives →
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Gateplex▲12Real-time governance firewall for autonomous AI agents
May 2026 · gateplex.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Sascha here, developer of OkaiDokai. Like many others, I fell in love with OpenClaw, but was longing for more control over what it can do without interrupting its autonomous, agentic nature. OkaiDokai solves this for me by allowing me to set up my own rule set of what is allowed by default, what is not, and what it should ask permission for. It comes with a hosted API, web and native apps including push notifications (with quick-response support), plugins for OpenClaw and Claude Code, and soon Codex. I'm still working on getting the apps onto the App Store (currently on TestFlight…
Feb 2026 · okaidokai.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been developing Portkey Gateway, an open-source AI gateway that's now processing billions of tokens daily across 200+ LLMs. Today, we're launching a significant update: integrated Guardrails at the gateway level. Key technical features: 1. Guardrails as middleware: We've implemented a hooks architecture that allows guardrails to act as middleware in the request/response flow. This enables real-time LLM output evaluation and transformation. 2. Flexible orchestration: The gateway can now route requests based on guardrail verdicts. This allows for complex logic like fallbacks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Filter emotional chaos before it hits your AI.
2025 · goldline-gatekeeper-leonardc9316766.replit.app · its alternatives →
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The only way to go fast is full YOLO mode in your coding agent. I've got the local sandbox figured out (pro tip: Incus VMs work great) but I wanted to keep my agents from doing things like inadvertently blowing up my cloud services or chasing a prompt to POST to some random website. I struggle most with this on my side projects where my permission model isn't quite as robust as it is at the office. I started with a firewall on the Incus container but every time the agent needed access to something new, I was poking more holes in it - and it didn't differentiate between HTTP verbs. I've been…
Jul 2026 · trollbridge.dev · its alternatives →
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Introducing Braintrust's latest feature: an AI proxy that lets you use open source models like LLaMa 2 and Mistral, as well as all of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, behind a single interface with caching, security, and API key management built in.
2023 · braintrustdata.com · its alternatives →
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AI Risk & Compliance Monitoring, On Autopilot.
2025 · ai-guard-copilot.com · its alternatives →
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Check if your AI API usage complies with provider ToS
Mar 2026 · apiguardrails.com · its alternatives →
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AICosts.ai▲12Hey HN, I'm a solo SWE building AICosts.ai after working on multiple projects where managing AI costs became a nightmare across multiple clients. Between OpenAI, Claude, Blotato, ElevenLabs, n8n workflows, Make workflows, and dozens of other AI tools, I was spending hours each month just figuring out what I was actually spending and on what. So basically I built AICosts.ai to solve this: one location for me to track my entire AI stack (GPT, Claude, Gemini, automation tools like Zapier/Make/n8n)in one place. It helps me compare costs across providers, set billing alerts, and track…
2025 · aicosts.ai · its alternatives →
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Greywall▲10Prefix any AI coding agent with `greywall --` for a live feed of every read, write, and connection. Allow by default; ask mode and deny rules opt-in via config. Linux and macOS.
Mar 2026 · greywall.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We are building HarnessRouter, a canonical API for running Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and other managed agent harnesses as your product backend. Before building HarnessRouter, I used to build our own agent harness for our products. I tried LangGraph, agent SDKs from different vendors, pydantic, LLM tool use / function call, and so on. It's a very heavy lifting engineering effort, and I am disappointed about the agent deliveries compared to what Codex, CC can deliver. That changed my mindset. The frontier labs and famous open source communities are already putting so much…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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