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Open-source LLM routers

Open-source router and gateway projects are the right first stop when you need inspectable routing policy, self-host paths, or a proxy you can adapt. This page keeps open-source rows in one view across gateway, router, and hybrid types.

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Helicone

Helicone

GatewayOpen sourceHosted SaaSReliabilityCost

Subscription

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

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LiteLLM

BerriAI

GatewayOpen sourceSelf-hostedCostReliability

~100 models · Free OSS

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

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Portkey

Portkey AI

GatewayOpen sourceHosted SaaSReliabilityCost

~1.6K models · Subscription

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.

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RouteLLM

LMSYS (lm-sys)

RouterOpen sourceSelf-hostedCostQuality

Free OSS

Open-source LLM routing framework from LMSYS that routes simpler queries to a cheaper weak model and harder ones to a stronger frontier model, achieving 35–85% cost reduction on benchmarks.

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vLLM Semantic Router

Red Hat / vLLM Project

RouterOpen sourceSelf-hostedCostLatency

Free OSS

Open-source Mixture-of-Models router that semantically classifies each request and routes it to the best backend (local, private, or frontier) by cost, latency, privacy, or safety, deployed as an Envoy External Processor.

These links keep the SEO view tied to the single router store, target-provider graph, and model decision pages.

Full routers directory

Compare every verified gateway, router, and hybrid row in the shared store.

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Use the directory controls to add openness, hosting, API, and routing-scope filters.

OpenAI API

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Anthropic

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Microsoft Foundry

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Azure OpenAI

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Open-source LLMs

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Self-hosted routers

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Cheapest strong LLMs

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Machine-readable source

This page is generated from data/seed/router.json. Agents can consume the same catalog through /api/routers.