Latest news and updates from LLM Gateway
A step-by-step guide to LLM usage and cost tracking without leaving the terminal: connect the LLM Gateway MCP server to Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, then ask for spend, token totals, cache hits, and rankings by model, provider, app, or API key. The tools are read-only and free to call.
The best Cursor alternatives in 2026, compared honestly — AI editors, terminal agents, and gateway-backed setups. Where Cursor's credit pools and curated model list pinch, and which alternative fixes each complaint without breaking your workflow.
GLM-5.2 in Claude Code takes three environment variables. This guide walks through the exact setup for Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline via LLM Gateway — plus why GLM-5.2 is the rare open coder that's uncapped on a flat-rate DevPass plan.
OpenCode Go replaced its request-count tiers with dollar metering: $10/month now buys up to $60 of usage at published per-token rates, with Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna capped at $15 each. Here's exactly what changed, the math per dollar, and when the ceiling stops fitting.
TanStack AI now ships a first-party LLM Gateway adapter. Install @tanstack/ai-llmgateway, add one API key, and your useChat app can stream chat, call tools, and surface reasoning from 200+ models across 40+ providers — switching models is a one-line change.
Microsoft splits the two big AI use cases across separate products: Azure AI Foundry for calling models over an API, GitHub Copilot for coding agents — plus a new API Management gateway tier if you want governance. Here is what each one costs in 2026, and what the same two workloads cost on a single gateway.
Bloomberg reports Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. Neither company has confirmed it. Here's what is actually verified, what it plausibly changes for teams routing production traffic through OpenRouter, and how to check whether you could leave any gateway if you needed to.
Your coding agent started erroring and you need to know whether Kimi is down or your request is wrong. Here is how to read Kimi K3 API status per provider, tell an outage from a client error, and keep working through both.
An AI coding plan is a flat monthly fee that covers model usage inside your coding agent. This explains what a coding plan actually includes, how monthly allowances and weekly premium caps work, and how to size one against your real usage.
How to keep LLM traffic GDPR-compliant in practice: restrict routing to GDPR-compliant providers, filter by provider headquarters, pin regions, and block non-compliant requests before any data leaves your gateway.
Helicone entered maintenance mode after the Mintlify acquisition in March 2026. The 8 best Helicone alternatives in 2026, compared honestly — gateways with built-in analytics and dedicated LLM observability platforms — and how to pick between them.
How to use the Kimi K3 API in practice: endpoints, pricing ($3/$0.30/$15 per million tokens), the reasoning_effort parameter, tool calls, JSON output, the 1M-token context — and how to route it through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint with automatic failover.
Moonshot released the Kimi K3 open weights on July 26, 2026 — 2.8T parameters, the largest open-weight model ever shipped. What's in the release, what it takes to run Kimi K3 locally, the license caveat, and the hosted routes that don't need a GPU cluster.
An eight-point LLM compliance checklist for putting model traffic in production: provider vetting, routing restrictions, data residency, retention, access control, and the audit trail — with what to enforce at the gateway versus document by hand.
A practical guide to LLM data retention: when storing full prompts and responses helps, when metadata is enough, what it costs, and how to set a retention policy your compliance team will sign off on.
The 8 best Portkey alternatives in 2026, compared honestly — open-source gateways, managed routers, and VPC platforms — with fees, self-hosting, governance, and who each option genuinely fits after the Palo Alto Networks acquisition.
A text-to-speech API tutorial: synthesize speech with ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Gemini, and Qwen voices through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, choose voices and formats, steer delivery with instructions, and track the cost of every clip.
A practical AI image generation API tutorial: call gpt-image-2, Gemini, and Seedream through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, pick sizes and quality, edit existing images, and see the exact cost of every generation.
An AI video generation API tutorial: submit async jobs to Veo, Seedance, and KLING through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, poll or receive signed webhooks, download the MP4, and keep per-second costs visible.
An LLM cost tracking tutorial: read the exact USD cost of every request from the response's usage object, segment spend by user and feature with metadata headers, enforce hard budgets with per-key spending limits, and audit everything in the dashboard.
The best open-source OpenRouter alternatives in 2026 — self-hostable AI gateways compared by what ships in the open core, what stays paid, and what you'll actually operate.
Six enterprise OpenRouter alternatives compared on the criteria procurement actually checks — self-hosting and VPC deployment, SSO and audit logs, guardrails, SLAs, and compliance posture.
The 10 best OpenRouter alternatives in 2026, compared honestly — open-source gateways, managed routers, and enterprise platforms — with fees, self-hosting, and routing side by side.
The best open-source LLMs in 2026, ranked — Kimi K3, GLM-5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro, MiniMax M3 and more, compared on license, context window, and real per-token price. All of them run through one API with LLM Gateway.
Kimi K3 in Claude Code takes three environment variables. This guide walks through the exact setup for Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline via LLM Gateway — plus what each tool does and doesn't route, and what K3 costs on a flat-rate DevPass plan.
Kimi K3 ties Claude Opus 4.8 on GPQA Diamond, costs 40% less per token, and its weights are public while Opus stays closed — but Opus still leads where it counts for some teams. A fact-checked comparison of benchmarks, pricing, and context windows, and how to A/B both through one API.
Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released — 2.8T parameters, a 1M-token context, and benchmark scores next to Claude Opus 4.8. Here is what it costs, how it compares to GLM-5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and MiniMax M3, and how to run all of them through one API with LLM Gateway — on a flat-rate DevPass plan or pay-as-you-go credits.
GitHub Copilot switched chat and agents to usage-based AI Credits on June 1, 2026, and bills jumped 10–50x for agentic teams. The best GitHub Copilot alternatives in 2026, compared honestly — flat-fee IDEs, open-source agents, and gateway-backed setups with hard spend caps.
Microsoft repriced enterprise Copilot three times in June 2026: GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based AI Credits, Copilot Cowork added per-task billing on top of the $30 seat, and volume discounts expired. What it costs now — and the cost-control playbook enterprises are adopting instead.
The best LiteLLM alternatives in 2026, compared honestly — open-source gateways, managed routers, and enterprise platforms — and how to pick the right one.
AI gateway pricing hides in two places — the platform fee on credits and the markup on tokens. Here's what OpenRouter, Vercel, Cloudflare, Portkey, LiteLLM, and LLM Gateway actually charge, and how to pay the least.
Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5/$25 per million tokens — the same as Opus 4.6. But Anthropic's newer tokenizer can turn the same text into up to ~35% more tokens, so your real bill can climb even when the sticker price doesn't.
An honest comparison of the best AI coding plans in 2026 — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, OpenCode Go and more — ranked on price, model access, and lock-in. DevPass tops the list with one flat rate for every model.
The best ChatGPT alternatives in 2026, compared honestly on models, features and price. Lounge by LLM Gateway leads — every frontier model plus image generation on one membership from $9/mo.
What it takes to run LLM Gateway in production on AWS, GCP, or Azure — the components you need, how they fit together, and why Kubernetes is the path we recommend once you outgrow a single box.
Rotating API keys shouldn't cause service interruption for production AI. Learn how LLM Gateway enables secure key rotation for both providers and the gateway.
Looking for a Portkey alternative? A straightforward comparison of LLM Gateway and Portkey — features, pricing, deployment, and trade-offs — so you can pick the right AI gateway for your stack.
LLM orchestration is the layer that coordinates models, providers, and steps into one reliable workflow. A practical guide to the patterns, the tools, and when you need an LLM orchestrator.
Calling OpenAI or Anthropic directly is the right first call. Here's the honest case for when a gateway starts paying for itself — and when you don't need one yet.
How LLM response caching actually works, where it helps, where it doesn't, and how to turn it on without rewriting your app.
A practical guide to forecasting LLM costs: the token formula, real-world examples across GPT-5.4, Claude, and Gemini, and a free calculator to run the numbers.
A straightforward comparison of LLM Gateway and LiteLLM — features, operational cost, and trade-offs — so you can pick the right one for your stack.
A practical framework for picking the right model — based on task type, budget, latency requirements, and context window — instead of chasing benchmarks.
A straightforward comparison of LLM Gateway and OpenRouter — features, pricing, and trade-offs — so you can pick the right one for your stack.
What LLM guardrails are, why they matter in production, and how to implement content safety without building it yourself.
An honest comparison of the top AI gateways — features, pricing, and trade-offs — so you can pick the right one for your stack.
We compared DeepSeek V3.2 pricing across every major API provider. Here's the definitive ranking — and how our Token Cost Calculator can help you estimate exact savings.
Side-by-side pricing comparison of GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Gemini 2.5 Pro with real cost calculations for production workloads.
A step-by-step guide to making your first LLM API request through LLM Gateway — from signup to seeing results in your dashboard.
What an LLM gateway does, why it matters, and how it lets you ship AI features faster by abstracting away provider complexity.
Learn what an LLM Gateway is, why you need one, and how it simplifies integrating, managing, and deploying large language models in production.
Use GPT-5, Gemini, or any model with Claude Code. Three environment variables, zero code changes.
Run LLM Gateway on your own infrastructure in under 5 minutes. Full control, zero platform fees.