AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TrueFoundry AI Gateway
Many teams connecting LLMs to external tools eventually encounter the same architectural issue: as more tools and agents are added, the integration pattern becomes an N×M mesh of direct connections. Each agent implements its own auth, retries, rate limiting, and logging; each tool needs credentials distributed to multiple places and observability becomes fragmented. We built LLM gateway with this goal to provide a single place to manage authentication, authorization, routing, and observability for MCP servers, with a path toward a more general agent-gateway architecture in the future. The…
TrueFoundry AI Gateway is a control platform for managing large language models and AI agents in production. It enables teams to experiment with connecting models, guardrails, and prompts through an integrated… 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 3 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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Respan Gateway▲352One AI gateway with built-in observability and evals
Jun 2026 · respan.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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Context Gateway▲220We built an open-source proxy that sits between coding agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc.) and the LLM, compressing tool outputs before they enter the context window. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vFZ6MPrwjw#t=9s. Motivation: Agents are terrible at managing context. A single file read or grep can dump thousands of tokens into the window, most of it noise. This isn't just expensive — it actively degrades quality. Long-context benchmarks consistently show steep accuracy drops as context grows (OpenAI's GPT-5.4 eval goes from 97.2% at 32k to 36.6% at 1M…
Mar 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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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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Power your AI agents with enterprise-ready tools via MCP
2025 · merge.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been developing Portkey Gateway, an open-source AI gateway that's now processing billions of tokens daily across 200+ LLMs. Today, we're launching a significant update: integrated Guardrails at the gateway level. Key technical features: 1. Guardrails as middleware: We've implemented a hooks architecture that allows guardrails to act as middleware in the request/response flow. This enables real-time LLM output evaluation and transformation. 2. Flexible orchestration: The gateway can now route requests based on guardrail verdicts. This allows for complex logic like fallbacks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re the team behind Fiddler, and we recently built an Agent Cache feature. It works by capturing an LLM request/response pair and, once caching is enabled, serving subsequent matching calls locally so duplicate requests never hit the provider. It’s meant to reduce three pains that show up together in agent development: token cost, feedback-loop latency, and output non-determinism. We’d love to hear your thoughts.
Aug 2026 · telerik.com · its alternatives →
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IQ Routing▲100Route every LLM call to the cheapest model that holds quality. Chatbots, RAG, agent loops, and finance. Cut spend 40 to 80 percent, measured on our own traffic, live in thirty seconds.
Aug 2026 · iq-routing.com · its alternatives →
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The open source LLM router that connects your AI agents and harnesses to any provider in seconds. Subscriptions, pay-per-token, local models, and custom providers.
2024 · manifest.build · 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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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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A collection of open-source TypeScript tools by @enmanuelmag. heimdall-mcp for MCP proxy telemetry. agent-harness-kit for multi-agent orchestration.
May 2026 · ahk.cardor.dev · its alternatives →
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Agentfield▲91Build & scale AI \ agents as microservices with IAM
Dec 2025 · agentfield.ai · its alternatives →
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AI Hive ▲53Build, deploy, and run all your AI agents in one platform.
May 2026 · app.aihive.global · its alternatives →
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[deprecated] AI Gateway - core infrastructure stack for building production-ready AI Applications - pyadav/gateway
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Excited to share a project I’ve been building for months! Would love to receive honest feedback :) My motivation: AI is clearly going to be the interface for data. But earlier attempts (text-to-SQL, etc.) fell short — they treated it like magic. The space has matured: teams now realize that AI + data needs structure, context, and rules. So I built a product to help teams deliver “chat with data” solutions fast with full control and observability (agent tracing, quality scores, etc) — am I wrong? The product allows you to connect any LLM to any data source with centralized context…
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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Noisegate: a differential privacy gateway that lets an untrusted LLM agent query sensitive data over MCP (Model Context Protocol), with a formal guarantee no individual's record can leak even if the agent is adversarial - enforcement lives in trusted code below the model, validated by a runnable att
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Managed auth and 10,000+ tools across 3,000+ APIs for the agents you’re building — and a secure gateway for the AI tools your company uses.
2012 · apiaxle.com · its alternatives →
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Local AI agent guardrails, budgets, & circuit breakers.
Jun 2026 · stackmint.ai · its alternatives →
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