Alternatives to OpenRouter

Bifrost

The OSS edition suits developers and small teams managing their own deployment.

Eden AI suits companies that want to test, compare, or switch among AI providers through one API rather than integrating each separately.

Manifest suits AI builders, teams, startups, and platforms managing model access and inference consumption.

LLM Gateway suits product and platform teams routing requests across model providers, including teams that want to self-host the open-source core.

It suits teams that need a common interface for model access, routing, usage monitoring, and controls.

It suits teams sharing models or tools that need centralized credentials, quotas, usage attribution, or failover.

Helicone

Helicone suits teams routing and observing AI application requests across model providers, including teams that need self-hosting or LLM cost tracking.

Requesty may suit developers and teams that want one gateway for model access, routing and usage visibility.

YoloRouter suits teams already shipping AI features that need multi-provider access, failover, cost controls, quotas, or request visibility.

SGLang suits developers and infrastructure teams serving language, vision-language or diffusion models on varied accelerators.

TensorZero

TensorZero may suit developers who want a self-hosted LLM gateway and data stored in their own database.

LiteLLM

LiteLLM is aimed at platform teams that need a shared gateway, model routing and spend controls.

Routerly suits developers and teams that want to manage AI-provider routing, costs, and budgets on their own infrastructure.

Orq.ai

Orq.ai is aimed at engineering and product teams building and shipping LLM applications together.

Vercel

Vercel suits teams deploying web applications from connected Git repositories and using its listed frameworks and delivery infrastructure.

It suits teams that need to govern AI APIs or generative AI services and manage usage, prompts, and safety controls.

Apache APISIX

APISIX suits teams that need a self-managed gateway for APIs, microservices or LLM workloads.