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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.
29K visits/mo
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liteLLM
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI gateway giving dev teams unified access, fallbacks and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.
703K visits/mo
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Latitude
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-agent observability platform for tracing sessions, clustering failures and running evals on live traffic.
57K visits/mo
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Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)
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Core features
- ✦Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
- ✦Model-level fallback and routing
- ✦Semantic and exact-match AI caching
- ✦Token tracking and quota controls
- ✦Content-safety and data-protection filtering
- ✦MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
- ✦Unified access to 100+ LLMs in OpenAI format
- ✦Cost/spend tracking per key, user and team
- ✦Budgets and rate limiting
- ✦Automatic provider fallbacks and retries
- ✦Virtual keys and team management
- ✦Logging and observability integrations
- ✦Agent trace capture and conversation intelligence
- ✦Semantic and exact-text search across all traces
- ✦Automatic issue discovery with Slack/email/webhook alerts
- ✦OpenTelemetry-compatible SDK with no lock-in
- ✦Automated evals and golden dataset generation
- ✦Failure-mode clustering and MCP server integration
Use cases
- →Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
- →Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
- →Controlling token spend across teams
- →Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
- →Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
- →Attributing and controlling LLM spend
- →Keeping apps running during provider outages
- →Monitoring AI agents in production
- →Debugging and triaging agent failures
- →Building regression evals from real traffic
- →Getting alerted on new or escalating issues
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