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Sourced LLM gateway comparisons.
Line-by-line comparisons across pricing, request-path controls, and compliance, verified against public documentation.
Four sourced comparisons.
Line-by-line matrices covering pricing, credentials, governance, and where competitors lead.
nRouter vs OpenRouter
0% platform fee and exact list prices versus a marketplace gateway with a 5.5% deposit fee.Marketplace gateway · 500+ models listednRouter vs Portkey
Managed provider keys and a built-in credit ledger versus a BYOK observability gateway.Observability gateway · Prisma AIRS (Palo Alto Networks)nRouter vs Helicone
Managed multi-provider gateway with request-path controls versus an observability-first BYOK proxy.Observability-first · Joined MintlifynRouter vs Vercel AI Gateway
Host-portable routing across any cloud versus a gateway coupled to the Vercel platform.Platform-bound gateway · Vercel
How to evaluate a gateway.
Every comparison measures the same production axes.
Total cost and 0% platform fee.
0% token markup at exact provider list prices, a 0% platform fee on credits, and $0 on blocked calls.
- One plan, pay as you go ($5 minimum first purchase, $20 minimum repeat manual top-up).
- Exact provider list prices with 0% per-token markup.
- Preflight blocks hold and spend $0.00.
Included controls versus tier gating.
Guardrails, budgets, RBAC, SSO/SAML, and audit logs ship with pay as you go without Enterprise locks.
- Dual-axis RBAC with 5 roles: Owner, Org Admin, Team Admin, Member, Viewer.
- Hard per-team and per-key budgets enforced before provider dispatch.
- Request logs, per-request traces, and CSV export included.
Stateless sidecar and FOCUS 1.4.
Managed provider credentials, stateless zero-DB sidecar inspection, and FinOps FOCUS 1.4 tokenomics.
- Stateless mTLS sidecar with zero database access and zero external egress.
- FinOps FOCUS 1.4 standardized cost attribution and billing reconciliation.
- Enterprise SOC 2 Type II audit in progress, GDPR, and DPA.
Platform fee on credits.
A credit purchase charges the exact credits bought with a 0% platform fee and 0% token markup.
0%
Minimum first purchase.
Start on pay as you go ($5 minimum first purchase, $20 minimum repeat manual top-up) with every product capability included and no subscription tier.
$5
Contractual uptime SLA.
Contractual uptime target published for all customers alongside live status reporting.
99.9%
The accuracy contract.
Every competitor claim is sourced and last verified in October 2026.
Every claim is sourced and dated
Each cell links the public page it is drawn from and the month last verified (October 2026).Verified October 2026We never invent competitor pricing
Where a figure is not published, the cell describes the pricing structure instead of guessing.Public pricing pages onlyWe concede where competitors lead
OpenRouter has a broader catalog; Helicone is focused observability; BYOK suits direct contracts.Corrections: sales@nrouter.ai
FAQs
Are all nRouter features really included on every tier?
Every product feature — guardrails, prompt management, A/B tests, evals, observability, RBAC, SSO/SAML, audit logs, per-team budgets, and priority support — is included with pay as you go. nRouter sells one plan with a 0% platform fee, exact provider list prices ($5 minimum first purchase, $20 minimum repeat manual top-up), and standard limits of 200 RPM, 200k TPM, and 5 concurrent requests. Nothing is gated behind a subscription.
- 371 models live today across 10 providers. Spot something out of date? Email sales@nrouter.ai and it gets corrected.