Instead of Routerly
Routerly alternatives
Routerly gives developers a self-hosted way to route application traffic among AI providers while tracking token costs and applying budgets. Its configurable policies cover provider health, performance, model capabilities, context, rate limits, and fairness. Separate project tokens, model pools, routing settings, and budget limits help teams isolate workloads. It supports OpenAI and Anthropic formats, and its free AGPL-3.0 deployment adds no markup to API calls.
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Bifrost
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Teams needing MCP tools and enterprise traffic governance — Bifrost adds MCP tool connectivity, semantic caching, and monitoring alongside broader governance than Routerly’s AI gateway.
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YoloRouter
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Teams needing protocol translation and media APIs — YoloRouter translates among OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini protocols and adds image and video APIs Routerly does not offer.
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Envoy AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+1Teams routing AI and agent traffic through Envoy — Envoy AI Gateway adds MCP server multiplexing, OAuth, and inference endpoint load balancing, while Routerly focuses on its self-hosted gateway.
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Kong Gateway
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1Organizations managing API traffic across Kubernetes and clouds — Kong Gateway is a general API gateway with plugins and Kubernetes traffic management, rather than Routerly’s AI-provider routing focus.
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SGLang
Free plan APILinuxMac+1Teams serving open-source models on their own hardware — SGLang serves models on supported accelerators with inference optimizations, rather than routing application calls across external providers like Routerly.
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TensorZero
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1Teams needing LLM experimentation and inference feedback — TensorZero combines gateway routing with database-backed observability, evaluations, and experiments, but it is no longer maintained.
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Eden AI
Paid APIWebTeams comparing hosted AI services across specialized tasks — Eden AI offers a hosted API for 500+ models and specialized tasks such as OCR and speech, unlike Routerly’s self-hosted gateway.
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LLM Gateway
Free plan Open source APIExtensionLinux+2 - 9
Manifest
Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 10
LangSmith
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 11
Helicone
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 12
LiteLLM
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 13
Orq.ai
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb7.3 Visit site - 14
Polyrouter
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 15
TrueFoundry AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 16
OpenRouter
Free plan APIWeb - 17
Requesty
Free plan APIExtensionWeb - 18
Tyk AI Studio Proxy
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 19
UniterRouter
Free plan APIWeb - 20
WSO2 AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 21
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ZenMux
Free plan APIWeb - 23
Ramp Router
Free plan APIWeb6.9 Visit site - 24
Inference Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 25
Apache APISIX
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted
A different product may fit better if you need MCP tool connections, more protocols, image or video endpoints, or a gateway built around general API traffic. Routerly runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web, alongside API and self-hosted use; the alternatives vary in their supported environments and deployment models. When comparing them, weigh provider failover, access controls, observability, data handling, and whether you need an AI-specific gateway, an inference framework, or broader API infrastructure. Also consider the trade-off between Routerly’s cost and project controls and alternatives’ specialized routing, model-serving, or enterprise capabilities.