Prompt
What should I use to manage multiple AI vendors in one gateway?
Latest observation
If you want to manage multiple AI vendors through one gateway, you generally want an AI gateway / model gateway / LLM proxy.
Good options
- OpenAI-compatible gateways/proxies
- LiteLLM
- Portkey
- Helicone (more observability-focused, can also help route traffic)
- Cloud/vendor-neutral API gateways
- Kong
- Envoy
- Apigee
- Tyk
- with AI-specific routing/plugins layered on top
What to look for
A good multi-vendor AI gateway should support:
- Unified API across vendors/models
- Routing and fallback between providers
- Load balancing and traffic splitting
- Retries, timeouts, rate limiting
- Cost tracking
- Logging/observability
- Key management and secrets isolation
- Policy controls for compliance and data filtering
Practical recommendation
If your main goal is one developer-friendly gateway for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, etc., start with LiteLLM or Portkey.
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Choose LiteLLM if you want:
- open-source
- lots of provider support
- flexible routing/fallback
- easy self-hosting
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Choose Portkey if you want:
- a more managed product
- strong observability and control features
- simpler team operations
If you want, I can also recommend the best choice for your stack (self-hosted vs managed, startup vs enterprise, OpenAI-compatible vs not).
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
Which AI systems does Obsurfable collect answers from?
OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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