Routerly vs TrueFoundry AI Gateway

Routerly is a self-hosted gateway for directing application requests to AI providers, tracking usage costs, and applying budgets. Its routing engine can use up to nine configurable policies, covering model choice, cost, provider health and performance, capability and context, budgets, rate limits, and fairness. It supports OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats, including streaming, so compatible clients can connect by changing the base URL. Listed providers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Ollama, Mistral, Cohere, xAI, and custom HTTP endpoints. Per-token costs can use built-in pricing presets or custom model prices. Budgets can measure cost, calls, or token usage globally, per project, or per token, over rolling or calendar windows. Projects can have separate bearer tokens, model pools, routing configurations, and budget limits. Routerly stores configuration and usage records in JSON files without requiring an external database. It can be deployed with Docker or an installer. The self-hosted plan costs nothing, carries the AGPL-3.0 license, and adds no markup to API calls.

TrueFoundry AI Gateway sits between applications and model providers to manage model access, routing, governance, observability, security, and cost controls. Its unified API supports chat, completion, embedding, and reranking models. TrueFoundry says the gateway connects to more than 1,000 LLMs across more than 35 platforms, including OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and Anthropic. Routing options include latency-based selection, weighted load balancing, and automatic fallbacks. The service tracks token usage, latency, errors, and request volumes, and supports centrally stored request and response logs. Teams can set rate limits and cost or token quotas, with role-based access controls. MCP connections include tools such as Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and Datadog, with policies for tool calls. Deployment includes SaaS, with VPC, on-premises, and air-gapped options for Enterprise. Developer is free; Pro costs $25 a month, billed per user. Developer includes 10,000 requests per user monthly, while Pro includes 20,000 and charges $20 per additional 100,000 requests.