AI gateway comparisons

A hosted marketplace, a self-hosted proxy, a cloud model platform, and an intelligent selector solve different problems. These comparisons use official product sources and separate documented facts from TrustedRouter's own architecture.

• TrustedRouter vs OpenRouter OpenRouter runs the largest hosted model marketplace: 413 live model ids as of August 2026, no markup on inference, and zero prompt logging by default. TrustedRouter keeps the same one-key migration shape and replaces policy trust with a hardware-attested, source-available gateway you can verify.

• TrustedRouter vs Vercel AI Gateway Vercel AI Gateway routes 327 models across eight modalities with zero token markup and the deepest AI SDK integration available. TrustedRouter charges 5.5% over provider cost and spends it on what a closed gateway cannot offer: a source-available, hardware-attested prompt path you can verify instead of trust.
• TrustedRouter vs Requesty Requesty is a hosted, closed-source gateway from a London seed-stage team: a flat 5% markup, spend budgets down to team, user, and key level, and EU residency on every plan. TrustedRouter differs on the prompt path: realtime inference keeps no durable prompt logs, on a source-available gateway whose running build is hardware-attested on three clouds.
• TrustedRouter vs Martian Martian invented the commercial LLM router in 2023, then pivoted: today it is an interpretability research lab whose hosted gateway serves 289 models (as of August 2026) with explicit model selection and pass-through pricing. TrustedRouter is a routing gateway with hardware-attested execution on three clouds and no durable prompt logs on realtime inference.

• TrustedRouter vs LiteLLM LiteLLM is a self-hosted, MIT-core gateway claiming 140+ providers; you run it on your own infrastructure and pay providers directly. TrustedRouter is a hosted router at provider price + 5.5% whose gateway build you can verify by live attestation on three clouds.
• TrustedRouter vs Bifrost Bifrost is Maxim AI's Apache-2.0 Go gateway: you deploy and operate it yourself, pay providers directly on your own keys, and there is no hosted option. TrustedRouter is the hosted alternative: a hardware-attested gateway, no durable prompt logs on realtime inference, and one prepaid key across 550+ model routes.

• TrustedRouter vs Cloudflare AI Gateway Cloudflare AI Gateway is a closed-source control plane on Cloudflare's global edge whose core features are free, with caching, Dynamic Routing, and unified billing, merged with Workers AI in August 2026. TrustedRouter is a source-available gateway attested on three clouds that keeps realtime prompt content out of durable logs by default.

• TrustedRouter vs Portkey Portkey pairs a gateway with the most complete single-vendor observability stack in the category — and, since May 2026, Palo Alto Networks ownership; its hosted platform logs full request content by default to power that product. TrustedRouter routes realtime traffic with no durable prompt logs and a hardware-attested gateway build you can verify.

• TrustedRouter vs Helicone Helicone is an Apache-2.0 LLM observability platform with an AI gateway, in maintenance mode since Mintlify acquired it on March 3, 2026. TrustedRouter is an actively developed model router whose realtime path keeps no durable prompt logs and whose gateway build is attested live on three clouds.

• TrustedRouter vs Amazon Bedrock Amazon Bedrock is AWS's managed model platform: ~120 serverless models across 18 providers, strong default privacy, and no gateway markup on your AWS bill. TrustedRouter is cloud-neutral, with a hardware-attested gateway and per-request privacy-tier routing across ~49 providers.
• TrustedRouter vs Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Microsoft Foundry is Azure's first-party AI platform: 1,900+ models including both GPT and Claude frontier lines, a GA cross-vendor model router, and deep Azure governance. TrustedRouter is a cloud-neutral gateway across ~49 providers with no durable prompt logs on realtime inference and a hardware-attested prompt path you can verify.
• TrustedRouter vs Google Vertex AI Vertex AI — renamed the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in April 2026 — is Google Cloud's managed platform for Gemini, partner, and open models, with deep compliance and a documented but opt-out-based path to zero data retention. TrustedRouter is a cross-provider gateway whose default realtime path keeps no durable prompt logs and runs in a hardware-attested build you can verify.

• TrustedRouter vs Tinfoil Tinfoil runs open-source models inside hardware enclaves it operates and lets clients cryptographically verify the running code, GPUs, and model weights: attestation that reaches deeper than ours, across roughly a dozen models. TrustedRouter attests its gateway, routes across ~550 models on ~49 providers, and includes Tinfoil itself in its confidential-compute E2E pool.

• TrustedRouter vs TensorZero TensorZero was an Apache-2.0 LLMOps stack — Rust gateway, observability, evaluations, and a real optimization loop — until the project was archived on June 12, 2026 and left unmaintained. TrustedRouter is a maintained, source-available managed gateway with attested execution and no durable prompt logs on realtime inference.

• TrustedRouter vs Not Diamond Not Diamond predicts the best model per request — since August 2026 chiefly for coding agents, via a local proxy that executes through your existing gateway for $0.05 per million tokens routed. TrustedRouter is the execution layer itself: about 550 model routes, provider failover, prepaid billing, and an attested gateway with no durable prompt logs on realtime inference.

• TrustedRouter vs Kong AI Gateway Kong AI Gateway runs AI plugins on the Apache-2.0 Kong Gateway core or on Konnect, governing LLM, MCP, and A2A traffic with your own provider keys. TrustedRouter is a hosted model marketplace with a hardware-attested prompt path and no durable prompt logs on realtime inference.

• TrustedRouter vs LMRouter LMRouter is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable API router with zero inference markup and a hosted service whose repo has been dormant since September 2025 and whose model catalog froze in February 2026. TrustedRouter is an actively maintained gateway with hardware-attested execution, privacy-tier routing, and a 561-entry catalog (count includes meta routes) as of August 2026.