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✓ 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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Openlit
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Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native platform for LLM observability, tracing, evaluation and prompt management.
9.1K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Self-Hosted: $0 (Apache 2.0, no usage limits)
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
- ✦OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing
- ✦Token usage and cost tracking
- ✦LLM evaluations (online/offline)
- ✦Prompt management and versioning
- ✦GPU and vector-DB monitoring
- ✦60+ LLM/framework integrations
- ✦Self-hostable via Docker; export to Grafana/Datadog
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
- →Trace and debug LLM applications
- →Monitor AI cost and performance
- →Evaluate prompts and models
- →Add observability without code changes
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