Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LLM Router · One API for every provider
Dev tool that worries about your LLM API failures.
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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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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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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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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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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Arch▲314Hey HN — I’m Adil from Katanemo (with Salman, Shuguang, and Meiyu) We previously shared an early version of this project as ArchGW. Based on customer feedback, the scope expanded from “LLM routing and model access” into something broader: delivery infrastructure for agentic applications. We renamed it to Plano and reworked the architecture accordingly. The problem On-the-ground AI practitioners will tell you that calling an LLM is not the hard part. The really hard part is delivering agentic applications to production quickly and reliably, then iterating without rewriting system code every…
2024 · 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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LLMTest▲125Use the right LLMs in your apps. Setup fallbacks. Be happy.
May 2026 · llmtest.io · 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/sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/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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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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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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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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Open-source LLM gateway to auto-route and cut API costs
Feb 2026 · squirrel.gulu.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, With the news of OpenRouter possibly being acquired and proliferation of hosted LLM routers (i.e. Ramp Router, Vercel’s AI Gateway), I saw the need for a self hosted solution focused on cost savings, transparency, and performance. So, I built an open sourced router with a simple CLI interface that can easily sit between coding agents and GenAI workloads. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, Millwright has the tools for, - Providers: OpenAI-compatible APIs, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock - Routing: policy-controlled model roles (cheap, mid, frontier), cheapest healthy route selection -…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LLM API▲7Access all AI models you need through a single, reliable API
2025 · llmapi.in · 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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Multiroute AI - smart LLM routerfree tier, from $0.0005/mo▲2One API for every LLM — tuned per task, BYOK
May 2026 · multiroute.ai · its alternatives →
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One API. Lowest token prices.
Jul 2026 · videorouter.sh · its alternatives →
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LLMRouter: An Open-Source Library for LLM Routing. Contribute to ulab-uiuc/LLMRouter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vanilla JS LLM integration for static sites, zero backend!
2024 · amanpriyanshu.github.io · its alternatives →
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