AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to GateCtr
Stop LLM bill shock. Budget firewall for any AI API
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 4 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
21d ago · fastrouter.ai · its alternatives →
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LLM Gatewayfree tier▲296I 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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MakeHub.ai▲118LLM Provider arbitrage to get the best performance for the $
2025 · makehub.ai · its alternatives →
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RunAnywhere▲119Ollama but for mobile, with a cloud fallback
2025 · runanywhere.ai · its alternatives →
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One API. Lowest token prices.
Jul 2026 · videorouter.sh · its alternatives →
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LLMTest▲125Use the right LLMs in your apps. Setup fallbacks. Be happy.
May 2026 · llmtest.io · 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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Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API
2025 · ai-gateway.dev · its alternatives →
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Stop runaway LLM API spend before it happens
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GateLLM▲13The open-source gateway securing your AI workflows
2025 · gatellm.web.app · its alternatives →
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Promptly▲13An AI Cost Optimization Infrastructure for LLM Applications
Mar 2026 · getpromptly.in · its alternatives →
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AI billing firewall for OpenRouter apps
Jun 2026 · aivora-gatekeeper.vercel.app · 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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ModelRiver▲37Connect once to every major AI model. Run AI workflows in the background while your backend controls what AI sees.
Jan 2026 · modelriver.com · its alternatives →
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Stop paying an LLM to do a function's job.
Aug 2026 · modelgatehq.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Matvey, Ildar, Joey, and Dominik here. If you're building LLM agents that use tools, you're probably worried about prompt injection attacks that can hijack those tools. We were too, and found that solutions like prompt-based filtering or secondary "guard" LLMs can be unreliable. Our thesis is that agent security should be handled at the network level between the agent and the LLM, just like a traditional web application firewall. So we built Archestra Platform: an open-source gateway that acts as a secure proxy for your AI agents. It's designed to be a deterministic firewall against…
2025 · archestra.ai · its alternatives →
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Monitor every LLM API call and cost in real time
Mar 2026 · aicostguard.com · 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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Take control of your API Infrastructure
Jun 2026 · onlyallow.ai · its alternatives →
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RAD AI — LLM Council Routerfrom $7500/mo▲8Auto-route to the best LLM for speed, depth & cost.
2025 · itsradai.com · its alternatives →
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