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OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.
17M visits/mo
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LangWatch
✓ verifiedFreemium
Platform to test, evaluate and observe LLM and voice AI agents, with prompt management and red-teaming for production.
23K visits/mo6.4K saves
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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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Maxim AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.
102K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
No public pricing
Developer: €0 (50k events/mo)
Growth: €29/core-seat/mo (+ €5 per 100k events)
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)
Free trial available
Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦One unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
- ✦Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
- ✦Edge routing for low latency
- ✦Custom data and provider policies
- ✦Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model
- ✦Open-Source AI Gateway
- ✦Multi-LLM Management & Cost Optimization
- ✦Efficient and Secure LLMs Invocation
- ✦Unified API Signature for LLMs
- ✦Load Balancer for seamless switching between LLMs
- ✦Fine-Grained Traffic Control for LLMs
- ✦LLM Quota Management
- ✦Real-time LLM Traffic Monitoring
- ✦Caching Strategies for AI in Production
- ✦Flexible Prompt Management
- ✦Scenario-based agent testing
- ✦LLM evaluation and quality scoring
- ✦Observability for cost and latency
- ✦Prompt management with GitHub sync
- ✦Voice AI simulation
- ✦LLM red-teaming and governance
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Building API portals for secure sharing of internal APIs with partners.
- →Tracking API usage and driving API monetization.
- →Managing and securing API access in compliance with enterprise policies.
- →Connecting to multiple AI large models simultaneously.
- →Optimizing LLM costs and improving efficiency.
- →Protecting against LLM attacks and data leaks.
- →Catch agent issues before production
- →Evaluate and monitor LLM quality
- →Test voice AI agents at scale
- →Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
- →Attributing and controlling LLM spend
- →Keeping apps running during provider outages
- →Testing and comparing prompts and models
- →Evaluating and simulating AI agents
- →Monitoring agents in production
- →Running human evaluation pipelines
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