Total cost, not headline price
Look at the platform fee charged on top of provider cost, whether it scales with commitment or with feature usage, and whether the provider price is passed through transparently.
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Honest, sourced LLM gateway comparisons
Teams shortlist us against OpenRouter, Portkey, Helicone, and Vercel AI Gateway. The comparisons below are line-by-line — pricing, platform fee, enterprise features, compliance — and every competitor claim cites a public page and a last-verified month. Written so you can drop them straight into an internal RFP.
Side-by-side
Four sourced comparisons
Each page covers a sourced capability matrix, a feature-by-feature deep dive, pricing math, and the exact code change to switch — including where the competitor is genuinely ahead.
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
Confirm which features (guardrails, prompt management, observability, SSO, audit logs, team controls) ship on the entry plan and which require an Enterprise contract.
Model & provider breadth
Count the models live today, not roadmap promises, and check how new providers get added — and who manages the provider credentials.
Compliance posture
Verify SOC 2 status (in progress vs certified), GDPR/DPA availability, data residency, and audit logging — and whether the vendor states it honestly.
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 June 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 on exactly two axes: the platform-fee percentage (4 % / 2 % / 0 %) and the RPM/TPM guarantee. Nothing else is gated.
97 models live today across 4 providers. Spot something out of date? Email sales@nemorouter.ai and it gets corrected.
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Need a comparison we haven't written?
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.