AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Model Router
OpenAI-compatible proxy with intent-based routing
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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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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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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FastRouter.aifree tier, from $199/mo▲364Route requests to the right LLM for cost, latency & quality
22d ago · fastrouter.ai · 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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Use AI models without managing keys or billing
Dec 2025 · docs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Tokenwise▲143A smart LLM proxy that shows where you're overpaying
Jun 2026 · tokenwisehq.com · 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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Provides the same proxy OpenAI API for different LLM models
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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✦ Gemini ➜ OpenAI API proxy. Serverless! Contribute to PublicAffairs/openai-gemini development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · 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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ReliAPI▲87Stop losing money on failed OpenAI and Anthropic API calls.
Dec 2025 · kikuai-lab.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hello hacker news, I’m the maintainer of liteLLM() - package to simplify input/output to OpenAI, Azure, Cohere, Anthropic, Hugging face API Endpoints: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/ We’re open sourcing our implementation of liteLLM proxy: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/cookbook/proxy-... TLDR: It has one API endpoint /chat/completions and standardizes input/output for 50+ LLM models + handles logging, error tracking, caching, streaming What can liteLLM proxy do? - It’s a central place to…
2023 · github.com · 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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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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Promptly▲13An AI Cost Optimization Infrastructure for LLM Applications
Mar 2026 · getpromptly.in · 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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Cost-aware LLM router with streaming and tool calls
Jun 2026 · davccavalcante.github.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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One API that auto-picks the best LLM. Save 40-60%.
Mar 2026 · clawrouters.com · its alternatives →
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