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YoloRouter gives teams a single gateway for multiple AI providers while accepting OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses, Anthropic Messages, and Gemini generateContent protocols. It translates between those protocols, supports ordered candidates, failover, key pooling, streaming usage tracking, image and video APIs, tool-output compression, and controls for models, rates, concurrency, budgets, expiry, and revocation. Teams can use its admin console, usage analytics, single-binary self-hosting, and free plan; cloud billing uses top-up credits without a subscription or minimum spend.
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Bifrost
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Enterprise AI governance with MCP tools and tracing — Bifrost adds MCP client/server connectivity, semantic caching, weighted balancing, and OpenTelemetry integrations around its gateway.
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Routerly
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Self-hosted routing with detailed policies and project isolation — Routerly offers up to nine routing policies plus project-level tokens, model pools, and budget separation.
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Envoy AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+1Envoy-based Kubernetes and MCP traffic management — Agent Router centers on Envoy with model virtualization, inference pools, MCP multiplexing, and Kubernetes-oriented traffic controls.
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Kong Gateway
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1Hybrid API management and Kubernetes traffic control — Kong is a general API gateway with plugins, declarative configuration, hybrid deployment, and Kubernetes ingress management.
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SGLang
Free plan APILinuxMac+1High-throughput self-hosted model inference — SGLang serves language, vision-language, and diffusion models with GPU optimizations rather than routing providers through one gateway.
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TensorZero
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1LLM observability, experimentation, and A/B workflows — TensorZero combines a gateway with database-backed observability, evaluations, optimization, and multi-step experiment workflows.
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Eden AI
Paid APIWebBroad specialized model access through a managed API — Eden AI provides access to 500+ specialized models and compares providers by price, performance, and processing region.
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LLM Gateway
Free plan Open source APIExtensionLinux+2 - 9
Manifest
Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 10
Helicone
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 11
LangSmith
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 12
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Free plan APIWeb - 13
LiteLLM
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 14
Apache APISIX
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted - 15
Inference Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 16
Orq.ai
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb7.1 Visit site - 17
Polyrouter
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 18
TrueFoundry AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 19
OpenRouter
Free plan APIWeb - 20
Requesty
Free plan APIExtensionWeb - 21
Ramp Router
Free plan APIWeb6.9 Visit site - 22
Tyk AI Studio Proxy
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 23
WSO2 AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 24
UniterRouter
Free plan APIWeb - 25
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vLLM Semantic Router
Free plan APILinuxMac+1
An alternative may fit better when you need MCP tool connectivity, project isolation, broader model or provider coverage, specialized inference serving, or a different operations model. Platform scope also matters: YoloRouter supports API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows, while some choices narrow deployment to API, self-hosted, or cloud access. Compare routing policies, governance, observability, workflow support, Kubernetes integration, data handling, maintenance status, and pricing before changing your gateway.