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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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portkey.ai
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AI gateway and observability suite for governing and optimizing LLM apps; strong dev-tool traffic.
266K visits/mo
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Maxim AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.
102K visits/mo
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honeyhive.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Observability and evaluation platform for production LLM agents, built on OpenTelemetry for tracing, monitoring and testing.
24K visits/mo
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Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)
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Developer: $0 (10K events/month, up to 5 users, 30-day retention)
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
- ✦AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
- ✦Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
- ✦Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
- ✦Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
- ✦MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
- ✦Prompt IDE, versioning, and deployment
- ✦Agent simulation and evaluation
- ✦Production tracing and observability
- ✦Pre-built and custom evaluators
- ✦Human-in-the-loop evaluation
- ✦Bifrost LLM gateway
- ✦OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing across 100+ LLMs and frameworks
- ✦Online evaluation via LLM-as-a-judge or code
- ✦Offline experiments and regression detection
- ✦Annotation queues for expert review
- ✦Alerts and drift detection
- ✦Prompt management, CLI and docs MCP server
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
- →Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
- →Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
- →Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
- →Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
- →Build agents with access to real-world tools.
- →Testing and comparing prompts and models
- →Evaluating and simulating AI agents
- →Monitoring agents in production
- →Running human evaluation pipelines
- →Debugging multi-agent systems
- →Monitoring live agent quality at scale
- →Catching regressions before release
- →Human review of edge cases
- →Aligning automated evaluators with domain experts
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