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A comparison of the five best AI gateways in 2026: Bifrost, Cloudflare, Vercel, LiteLLM, and OpenRouter. Includes published performance figures, deployment and licence details, selection criteria, and a decision map for picking between self-hosted and managed options.

An AI gateway sits between your applications and every model provider, unifying routing, governance, observability, and security. Learn the architecture, the six steps a request passes through, how it differs from API, LLM, and MCP gateways, and what to check when choosing one.

Kong AI Gateway assembles LLM features from plugins on a general-purpose API gateway and manages them through a hosted control plane. This guide ranks five Kong alternatives for teams that need self-hosted or air-gapped deployment, a native MCP gateway, and per-key governance, with Bifrost first.