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24 alternatives to Aurora – AI Gateway built in Go

Every Ai project needs the same infra - API keys, providers SDKs, retry logic, cost tracking. it should be infra layer. Aurora is a Go gateway that handles that layer, ~15MB binary, no dependencies. It proxies requests to OpenaAI, Anthropic, Gemini etc, and can convert between formats - use the OpenAi SDK and Aurora translates to Anthropic's wire format automatically. No format conversion code in backend. It helps: - track costs per customer/team - switch models and providers without changing code - debug requests and responses flows more easily - reduce costs with exact and semantic…

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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    APIPark▲719

    Your open source AI gateway & API developer portal

    2024 · apipark.com · its alternatives →

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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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    Use AI models without managing keys or billing

    Dec 2025 · docs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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

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

    22d ago · fastrouter.ai · its alternatives →

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    The Fastest LLM gateway — an intelligent layer

    Jul 2026 · aurorallm.online · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I’m Jakub, a solo founder based in Warsaw. I’ve been building GoModel since December with a couple of contributors. It's an open-source AI gateway that sits between your app and model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic or others. I built it for my startup to solve a few problems: - track AI usage and cost per client or team - switch models without changing app code - debug request flows more easily - reduce AI spendings with exact and semantic caching How is it different? - ~17MB docker image - LiteLLM's image is more than 44x bigger ("docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:latest" ~…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    One AI gateway with built-in observability and evals

    Jun 2026 · respan.ai · its alternatives →

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    One private gateway for every AI model

    Aug 2026 · ngrok.ai · its alternatives →

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    Many teams connecting LLMs to external tools eventually encounter the same architectural issue: as more tools and agents are added, the integration pattern becomes an N×M mesh of direct connections. Each agent implements its own auth, retries, rate limiting, and logging; each tool needs credentials distributed to multiple places and observability becomes fragmented. We built LLM gateway with this goal to provide a single place to manage authentication, authorization, routing, and observability for MCP servers, with a path toward a more general agent-gateway architecture in the future. The…

    Dec 2025 · truefoundry.com · its alternatives →

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    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!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Where teams go to work smarter with AI.

    2025 · hiaurora.ai · its alternatives →

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    Serve Any AI Model, Faster & Cheaper

    Mar 2026 · ionrouter.io · its alternatives →

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    We were building an agent system and wanted email as a trigger. We decided to take it out and made it a standalone service. The primary email features we wanted and used for our own agent system: 1. Email threading stays consistent with agent conversation threading 2. Human in the loop review for outbound emails (especially during testing phase) 3. Quick onboarding/offboarding email addresses for agents within minutes 4. Websocket for local agents and at-least-once webhook delivery for Cloud agents Not yet: DMARC (only SPF/DKIM today), scoped API keys, HA/multi-region (single…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard

    2014 · tyk.io · its alternatives →

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    Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API

    2025 · ai-gateway.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I've been watching the rise of AI agents with a mix of excitement and dread. We're building incredible tools that can browse the web, but we're forcing them to navigate a world built for human eyes. They scrape screens and parse fragile DOMs. We're trying to tame them to act like humans. I believe this is fundamentally wrong. The goal isn't to make AI operate at a human level, but to unlock its super-human potential. The current path is dangerous. When agents from OpenAI, Google, and others start browsing at scale and speed, concepts like UI/UX will lose meaning for them. The entire…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Aurora▲5

    Glass-box Quantitative AI for Humans and Agents

    Jul 2026 · fantasystudio.fantasy-labai.workers.dev · its alternatives →

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    Aurora is a leading, modular and fully customizable exchange

    2023 · openware.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI Compute Gateway - One API. Every AI Model. Contribute to radium0090/Compute-Gateway development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · 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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    [deprecated] AI Gateway - core infrastructure stack for building production-ready AI Applications - pyadav/gateway

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    open source, ai agent, terminal agent

    2025 · aurora.the-box.dev · 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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    Hicap▲14

    One API for every model. Faster, cheaper inference.

    Feb 2026 · hicap.ai · its alternatives →

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