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24 alternatives to Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

We built any-llm because we needed a lightweight router for LLM providers with minimal overhead. Switching between models is just a string change : update "openai/gpt-4" to "anthropic/claude-3" and you're done. It uses official provider SDKs when available, which helps since providers handle their own compatibility updates. No proxy or gateway service needed either, so getting started is pretty straightforward - just pip install and import. Currently supports 20+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and AWS Bedrock. Would love to hear what you think!

Any-LLM is a lightweight router that lets developers switch between language model providers by changing a single string in their code. It works directly with official provider SDKs from over 20 services including… 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 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier.

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    LLM Gatewayfree tier▲296

    I built an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, vLLM, llama-server, SGLang... anything that speaks /v1/chat/completions. Single Go binary, one YAML config file, no infrastructure. It does the things you'd expect from this kind of gateway... semantic routing via a three-layer cascade (keyword heuristics, embedding similarity, LLM classifier) that picks the best model when clients omit the model field, weighted round-robin load balancing across local inference servers with health checks and failover. The part I think is most…

    2025 · llmgateway.io · its alternatives →

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    FastRouter.aifree tier, from $199/mo▲364

    Route requests to the right LLM for cost, latency & quality

    23d ago · fastrouter.ai · its alternatives →

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    Anytype is built on the open-source AnySync protocol: a local-first protocol based on CRDTs. Users of Anytype can create spaces - graph-based databases with modular UI. Each space has unique access rights. Today, Anytype's beta is in single-player mode. Multiplayer mode, which will support local-first collaboration between multiple users, will be launched in the first half of 2024. Anytype fulfils the seven ideals of local first software from here - https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ , our team felt these things are important to all of us: • No spinners: your work…

    2023 · anytype.io · its alternatives →

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    any-llm is a library that provides unified access to multiple LLM providers. switching between providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and even Ollama is just a string change. This demo makes it easy to look at and compare responses from different models. Interesting to see how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models each reason through the same problems. Let us know what you think!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Avoid OpenAI downtimes - one API for 30+ LLMs

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We've been building a multi-model API for LLMs called OpenRouter since we launched the Window AI extension in April this year [0]. The events of the last week make it clear the LLM landscape is unpredictable, so LLM aggregators are picking up interest. Unlike others, we're making a router on top of a public, explorable dataset. We recently built a way to rank and visualize this data, including the token counts we see going to and from different models, both open-sourced (like Llama, Mistral, finetunes, and variants) and closed-sourced (OpenAI, Anthropic). The API supports - 50+…

    Apr 2026 · openrouter.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — we're the team behind Arch (https://github.com/katanemo/archgw), an open-source proxy for LLMs written in Rust. Today we're releasing Arch-Router (https://huggingface.co/katanemo/Arch-Router-1.5B), a 1.5B router model for preference-based routing, now integrated into the proxy. As teams integrate multiple LLMs - each with different strengths, styles, or cost/latency profiles — routing the right prompt to the right model becomes a critical part of the application design. But it's still an open problem. Most routing systems fall into two…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Agihalo▲68

    LLM Router for A.I Agent & Saas with x402

    Jan 2026 · agihalo.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello hacker news, I’m the maintainer of liteLLM() - package to simplify input/output to OpenAI, Azure, Cohere, Anthropic, Hugging face API Endpoints: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/ We’re open sourcing our implementation of liteLLM proxy: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/cookbook/proxy-... TLDR: It has one API endpoint /chat/completions and standardizes input/output for 50+ LLM models + handles logging, error tracking, caching, streaming What can liteLLM proxy do? - It’s a central place to…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tokens are money. Save both.

    Aug 2026 · router.com · its alternatives →

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    Tokenwise▲143

    A smart LLM proxy that shows where you're overpaying

    Jun 2026 · tokenwisehq.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm excited to share AnyLM, a desktop app I've been working on. I love tinkering with local LLMs (via Ollama and LMStudio) but often found myself wishing for a more polished, unified UI similar to what ChatGPT offers, where all my conversations are in one place. Out of that frustration I've built AnyLM, which aims to solve that by providing a single, native application (currently for Windows, with macOS and more planned) to interact with your local models from LM Studio/Ollama but also models from api providers like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. This has been a fun (and…

    2025 · anylm.app · its alternatives →

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    Dev tool that worries about your LLM API failures.

    Aug 2026 · llmrouter.dpdns.org · its alternatives →

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    AnyLLM▲20

    10+ LLMs at 10x speed. Think we're kidding. Test it now!

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted LLM router. Cost effective, deterministic, and fast. Secure and private by default. - Northwood-Systems/millwright

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We’re building https://www.switchpoint.dev – a drop-in replacement for OpenAI’s API that reduces LLM cost by smartly routing across models (e.g., Claude, Gemini, GPT-4) depending on subject and difficulty of the task. Why we built this: LLM costs are spiraling—especially for products doing retrieval, agentic reasoning, or even just high-volume chat. We were frustrated with paying GPT-4 rates when most queries didn’t need it. So we built a router that: - Starts with cheaper/free models (like Llama 8B, 4o-mini, 2.0 flash) - Streams responses and upgrades on failure - Acts…

    2025 · switchpoint.dev · its alternatives →

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    Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API

    2025 · ai-gateway.dev · its alternatives →

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    Scenario: Your company’s IT department says “good news, you have access to azure, aws, openai, mistral, and together AI, here are the API keys”. You think “yippee I can access many models”, but some models like the gpt-oss or Mistral are available on some or all of those platforms? That’s where this app comes in: run it and it will check all the providers that you have configured and then you can search across those providers to see which providers have the model you want available. Built on top of mozilla.ai any-llm library. Check out the link for a GIF showing it in action.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Current AI-assisted CLI tools are often part of larger systems and work better on Linux. I built llm-term to address these. It's a Rust-based tool that compiles into a single binary file. You only need to download the binary, add it to your PATH, and configure your OpenAI key to get started. While llm-term offers an option for gpt-4o, it works great with gpt-4o-mini. So it's not costly. I appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    maslul▲3

    Smart LLM router — one call, the right model.

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Multiroute AI - smart LLM routerfree tier, from $0.0005/mo▲2

    One API for every LLM — tuned per task, BYOK

    May 2026 · multiroute.ai · its alternatives →

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    Call any LLMs at 30% Less Cost, Same Top Tier Performance

    2025 · firstrouter.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source, OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway you run yourself. One endpoint for 40+ providers, with virtual keys, budgets, and usage tracking. - mozilla-ai/otari

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    gremlord wraps Claude Code in a thin local router. Same TUI, same tools — Anthropic runs byte-faithful passthrough, and OpenAI, xAI, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint work through request/stream translation. Every token metered, routed by size, and checked against a budget. Sessions can now find an

    Sep 2026 · gremlord.com · its alternatives →

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