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LLM Price Check
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Free comparison tool for LLM API prices across providers, with a calculator to estimate token costs.

17K 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
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End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.

102K visits/mo
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liteLLM
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Open-source AI gateway giving dev teams unified access, fallbacks and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.

703K visits/mo
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Higress
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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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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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Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)

Free trial available

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Core features
  • Compare LLM API prices across providers
  • Per-million-token input/output rates
  • Quality and context-window data
  • Token cost calculator
  • Sortable, searchable model table
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Compare LLM API costs
  • Estimate token spending for a project
  • Pick a cost-effective model
  • 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
  • Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
  • Attributing and controlling LLM spend
  • Keeping apps running during provider outages
  • 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
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