gateway and ai-gateway

These are competitors offering alternative approaches to LLM routing and access control—Portkey-AI provides a managed gateway service with built-in guardrails, while Envoy's offering leverages the Envoy proxy infrastructure for organizations preferring self-hosted gateway solutions.

gateway
77
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ai-gateway
70
Verified
Maintenance 16/25
Adoption 17/25
Maturity 25/25
Community 19/25
Maintenance 23/25
Adoption 10/25
Maturity 16/25
Community 21/25
Stars: 10,885
Forks: 936
Downloads: 968
Commits (30d): 3
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Stars: 1,428
Forks: 185
Downloads:
Commits (30d): 43
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
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About gateway

Portkey-AI/gateway

A blazing fast AI Gateway with integrated guardrails. Route to 200+ LLMs, 50+ AI Guardrails with 1 fast & friendly API.

Supports multi-modal requests (vision, audio, image models), automatic retries with fallback routing, load balancing, and conditional request routing. Built as a lightweight Node.js application (<1ms latency, 122kb footprint) compatible with OpenAI SDKs and frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI. Includes declarative config-based guardrails for output validation and offers enterprise deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.

About ai-gateway

envoyproxy/ai-gateway

Manages Unified Access to Generative AI Services built on Envoy Gateway

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