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24 alternatives to InferRoute

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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, 3 of them free or with a free tier.

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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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    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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    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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    Avoid OpenAI downtimes - one API for 30+ LLMs

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Inferock▲263

    Serverless inference, with credits back for failed calls.

    24d ago · inferock.ai · its alternatives →

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    Serve Any AI Model, Faster & Cheaper

    Mar 2026 · ionrouter.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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    Cheaper & Faster LLM API router

    2024 · inferkit.ai · 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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    LLMTest▲125

    Use the right LLMs in your apps. Setup fallbacks. Be happy.

    May 2026 · llmtest.io · its alternatives →

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    Aggregate uptime monitoring across OpenAI, Claude, and more

    Apr 2026 · tools.lamatic.ai · 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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    RouKey▲98

    Route each task to the smartest AI for the job

    2025 · expireddomains.com · 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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    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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    Hi HN, We’re building https:&#x2F;&#x2F;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&#x2F;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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    One API. Lowest token prices.

    Jul 2026 · videorouter.sh · its alternatives →

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    Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API

    2025 · ai-gateway.dev · 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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    Transform generic AI models into specialized solutions

    2025 · tokenfactory.nebius.com · its alternatives →

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    An AI Cost Optimization Infrastructure for LLM Applications

    Mar 2026 · getpromptly.in · its alternatives →

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    One API for reliable multi-model AI routing

    Jun 2026 · novarouteai.com · its alternatives →

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    One API that auto-picks the best LLM. Save 40-60%.

    Mar 2026 · clawrouters.com · 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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