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How apicuts compares with the LLM gateways, proxies and resellers teams look at most. Every competitor detail is checked against that company's own website.
Choose OpenRouter to try many models quickly with one key. Choose apicuts when you spend $5K+ a month and the goal is a lower bill.
Choose CometAPI for an instant discount on token prices. Choose apicuts for a guaranteed saving on your total bill, from optimizing your actual traffic, through official and authorized providers.
Choose LiteLLM if you want full control and have engineers to run it. Choose apicuts if you want the savings without operating a gateway, or keep LiteLLM and add apicuts behind it.
Choose Portkey when governance and visibility across many AI apps is the main problem. Choose apicuts when cost is the main problem.
Choose Requesty for self-serve access to many models with routing and spend limits. Choose apicuts when you want the bill itself to fall, with the work done for you and the saving guaranteed.
Choose Cloudflare AI Gateway for free visibility, caching and rate limiting that your team configures. Choose apicuts when you want someone to cut the bill for you, with at least 20% guaranteed after our fee.
Choose Vercel AI Gateway for list-price access to many models, especially if you build on Vercel. Choose apicuts when you want to pay less than you pay today for the same work, with a guarantee.
Choose Helicone for detailed logging, tracing and analytics that your team works with. Choose apicuts when you want the bill cut for you, with at least 20% guaranteed after our fee.
Choose Not Diamond if per-prompt model choice is the lever you want to tune yourself. Choose apicuts for a guaranteed saving across every lever, done for you.
Every kind of LLM gateway
Marketplaces, self-hosted proxies, governance gateways, edge gateways, observability tools and model routers all solve different problems. Choosing an LLM gateway explains which is which, and the five questions to ask any of them.
What makes apicuts different
- A written guarantee: at least 20% lower all-in cost per equivalent request, after our fee, or you pay nothing.
- Done for you: an optimization engineer switches on caching, routing, batching, and prompt and output fixes.
- Live in one day, with one line of code, and one line to leave.
- Traffic goes only to official model APIs, major clouds and authorized inference providers. See the Trust Center.
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