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24 alternatives to GPT Router

Avoid OpenAI downtimes - one API for 30+ LLMs

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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. GPT Router launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services. Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure. "How can I track LLM spend per API key?" "Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?" "Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?" "Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom…

    2023 · github.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&#x2F;gpt-4" to "anthropic&#x2F;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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    Try it out! https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glhf.chat&#x2F; Hey HN! We’ve been working for the past few months on a website to let you easily run (almost) any open-source LLM on autoscaling GPU clusters. It’s free for now while we figure out how to price it, but we expect to be cheaper than most GPU offerings since we can run the models multi-tenant. Unlike Together AI, Fireworks, etc, we’ll run any model that the open-source vLLM project supports: we don’t have a hardcoded list. If you want a specific model or finetune, you don’t have to ask us for it: you can just paste the Hugging Face link in and…

    2024 · glhf.chat · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf&#x2F;ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ollama but for mobile, with a cloud fallback

    2025 · runanywhere.ai · its alternatives →

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    One unified API for all AI models like Gemini, GPT-4, DALL-E

    2023 · getmerlin.in · its alternatives →

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    A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support! - getumbrel/llama-gpt

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    liteLLM▲120

    One library to standardize all LLM APIs

    2023 · litellm.ai · its alternatives →

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    Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API

    2025 · ai-gateway.dev · 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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    Henry, Matt and James here – we’re building an open source toolkit that makes it easy to integrate an LLM-powered copilot that talks to your API into software products. It works by calling API endpoints which you choose to expose to it. This lets the chatbot complete tasks within your software in response to natural language queries. It’s also open source, so you don’t have to send user data to another 3rd party. We support Llama 2, but we haven’t fine-tuned Llama 2 yet (coming soon) so highest accuracy is seen with GPT-4 or fine-tuned GPT-3.5 (much faster). We started working together 2…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Multithreading for OpenAI calls with robust error handling

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Access 1 billion tokens per month for free

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Taylor AI▲118

    Fine-tune open source LLMs in minutes

    2023 · trytaylor.ai · 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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    I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens&#x2F;sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmapitest.com&#x2F; Code: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;qjr87&#x2F;llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…

    2025 · llmapitest.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple calculator that estimates how many concurrent requests your GPU can handle for a given LLM, with shareable results.

    2025 · selfhostllm.org · its alternatives →

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    LLM Provider arbitrage to get the best performance for the $

    2025 · makehub.ai · its alternatives →

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    Know before the outage impacts you

    2023 · status.portkey.ai · 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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    Connect 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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    Perssua▲61

    Real-time guidance from any LLM (including local ones)

    Nov 2025 · perssua.com · its alternatives →

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