OpenRouter alternatives
OpenRouter is the flagship hybrid router in this seed, but it is not the only way to unify model access. This view excludes OpenRouter and keeps the alternatives that still give you gateway or hybrid routing behavior.
Filtered router list
Helicone
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.
Kong Inc.
Subscription
Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
BerriAI
~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.
Portkey AI
~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.
Requesty
~400 models · Passthrough + fee
AI gateway to 400+ LLM providers with intelligent routing, caching, guardrails, and governance; flat 5% markup on model costs with no subscription fee.
Respan (formerly Keywords AI)
~250 models · Subscription
Unified LLM engineering platform (gateway + observability + evals + prompt management) routing across 250+ models; previously Keywords AI, rebranded February 2026.
Related decision paths
These links keep the SEO view tied to the single router store, target-provider graph, and model decision pages.
Compare every verified gateway, router, and hybrid row in the shared store.
Use the directory controls to add openness, hosting, API, and routing-scope filters.
Inspect the provider that one or more listed routers can target.
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Inspect the provider that one or more listed routers can target.
Inspect the provider that one or more listed routers can target.
Inspect the OpenRouter provider catalog before switching.
Compare direct provider API choices alongside gateways.
Stay in the gateway-first view if routing policy is secondary.
Machine-readable source
This page is generated from data/seed/router.json. Agents can consume the same catalog through /api/routers.