gateway and smg

These are competitors—both provide API gateway functionality for routing requests to multiple LLMs, though Portkey-AI offers significantly broader LLM coverage (200+) and production-grade features like integrated guardrails, while Shepherd Model Gateway appears to be a more specialized or lightweight alternative.

gateway
77
Verified
smg
58
Established
Maintenance 16/25
Adoption 17/25
Maturity 25/25
Community 19/25
Maintenance 13/25
Adoption 13/25
Maturity 13/25
Community 19/25
Stars: 10,885
Forks: 936
Downloads: 968
Commits (30d): 3
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Stars: 89
Forks: 18
Downloads: 50
Commits (30d): 0
Language: Rust
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 smg

lightseekorg/smg

Shepherd Model Gateway

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