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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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ApX Machine Learning
✓ verifiedFreemium

Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.

355K visits/mo
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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium

LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.

100K 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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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.

24K visits/mo
Pricing
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)

Free trial available

Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
Core features
  • 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
  • VRAM/GPU-memory calculator for LLMs
  • LLM performance rankings and benchmarks
  • Model directory and comparison
  • AI/ML courses and learning roadmap
  • Calculator API and exportable cost reports
  • Engineering blog and guides
  • Request logging and LLM observability
  • AI gateway with routing and automatic fallbacks
  • Caching and rate limiting
  • Session, user and custom-property analytics
  • Prompts, playground and datasets for testing
  • Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and more
  • 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
  • 100+ automated AI tests
  • Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
  • Real-time observability and tracing
  • Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
  • Data-quality and drift monitoring
  • Compliance/governance alignment
  • Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
Use cases
  • Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
  • Attributing and controlling LLM spend
  • Keeping apps running during provider outages
  • Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
  • Comparing and selecting LLMs
  • Learning ML and LLM engineering
  • Modeling production deployment costs
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
  • 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.
  • Evaluate models before production
  • Monitor live AI systems for issues
  • Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
  • Catch data drift and quality problems
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