Top 5 LLM Gateways to Use in 2026
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Generative AI
Evaluating the leading LLM gateways for production AI workloads. See how Bifrost, LiteLLM, Kong, Cloudflare, and OpenRouter compare on speed, reliability, and governance. Teams shipping LLM-powered products at scale run into the same problem: every model provider ships a different API, a different auth flow, different rate limits, and different failure behavior. An LLM gateway solves this by sitting between your application and the providers, giving you a single interface with built-in failover, cost controls, and observability.