Total cost, not headline price
Transparent pass-through provider rates with a flat 4% fee on credit top-ups, and models at list price.
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Honest, sourced LLM gateway comparisons
Sourced, line-by-line comparisons across pricing, enterprise controls, and compliance. Drop them straight into an internal evaluation.
Side-by-side
Four sourced comparisons
Feature matrices, pricing math, and code changes to switch—including where competitors lead.
Evaluation framework
The four axes that decide an LLM gateway
Every /vs page is structured around these so a comparison reads as an RFP, not a sales deck.
What is included vs gated
Guardrails, observability, SSO, and audit logs available on entry plans without Enterprise locks.
Model & provider breadth
Live model counts across major providers, managed credentials, and automatic fallback chains.
Compliance posture
SOC 2 controls, GDPR data residency, tenant RLS isolation, and immutable audit logs.
How we compare
The accuracy contract
A comparison is only useful if it is checkable. Here is the standard every /vs page is held to.
Every competitor claim is sourced and dated
Each cell that says "Enterprise only", "plan-dependent", or "not published" links the specific public page it is drawn from and the month it was last verified (currently September 2026), not a vague "as of 2026".
We never invent competitor pricing
Where a competitor does not publish a figure, the cell describes the pricing structure ("usage-based", "per-request fee") instead of quoting a number we cannot source.
We concede where a competitor is ahead
OpenRouter has a broader model catalog today; Helicone is a focused best-of-breed observability tool; an in-house proxy is the right call for teams that must self-host or air-gap. The deep-dive sections say so plainly. An honest concession is more credible than a clean sweep.
Our own facts are precise
Every product feature — guardrails, prompt management, A/B tests, evals, observability, RBAC, SSO/SAML, audit logs, per-team budgets, and priority support — ships on every tier. Tiers differ primarily on the RPM/TPM throughput guarantee (with a flat 4 % platform fee on credit top-ups across plans and no minimum fee). Nothing else is gated.
169 models live today across 6 providers. Spot something out of date? Email sales@nrouter.ai and it gets corrected.
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If you're evaluating us against another gateway — TrueFoundry or an in-house proxy — we'll send a structured, sourced comparison instead of a sales deck.