2 places where the sources disagree on price or availability

Routing bill breakdown

10 priced. Lowest: Vercel AI Gateway at $0. 1 not modelled.

• Vercel AI Gateway$0

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Vercel AI Gateway pricing docs OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Vercel AI Gateway pricing docs OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Platform: Gateway (no platform fee): $0
    free tier or no platform fee
    Vercel AI Gateway pricing docs OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
• LiteLLM$0

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08
  • Platform: Self-host (infrastructure not included): $0
    free tier or no platform fee
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08

  Not in this total: Server, database and operations time are your cost and are not modelled.

• Bifrost (Maxim)$0

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08
  • Platform: Self-host (infrastructure not included): $0
    free tier or no platform fee
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08

  Not in this total: Server and operations cost are yours.

• Continuum$0

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Continuum home page ("free, vendor-neutral app") OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Continuum home page ("free, vendor-neutral app") OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Platform: Free app: $0
    free tier or no platform fee
    Continuum home page ("free, vendor-neutral app") OFFICIAL 2026-11-10

  Not in this total: Coding-agent workbench, not a proxy for app traffic.

• Kong AI Gateway (Konnect)$25

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Kong pricing page ("Plus from $25/month plus usage"; 1M requests included, $200 per additional 1M) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Kong pricing page ("Plus from $25/month plus usage"; 1M requests included, $200 per additional 1M) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Platform: Konnect Plus (from): $25
    $25 a month
    Kong pricing page ("Plus from $25/month plus usage"; 1M requests included, $200 per additional 1M) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10

  Not in this total: Serverless AI gateway control plane is $25 a month; AI Gateway model proxies are $100 a month per model on top.

• Portkey$49

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Platform: Production: $49
    $49 a month
    Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
• Cloudflare AI Gateway$50

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Cloudflare AI Gateway pricing reference OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $50
    Gateway credits: 5% of $1,000
    Cloudflare AI Gateway pricing reference OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Platform: Workers Free logs (100,000 total): $0
    free tier or no platform fee
    Cloudflare AI Gateway pricing reference OFFICIAL 2026-11-10

  Not in this total: Above 100,000 logs you need Workers paid logging; its price is not modelled. Since 2026-09-24 new gateways store logs in Workers Logs, not Legacy Logs (vendor docs, updated 2026-11-02).

• OpenRouter$55

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    OpenRouter pricing page (5.5% and 8%; BYOK $25,000 free then 5%) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $55
    Gateway credits: 5.5% of $1,000
    OpenRouter pricing page (5.5% and 8%; BYOK $25,000 free then 5%) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Platform: No separate log or platform fee found: $0
    free tier or no platform fee
    OpenRouter pricing page (5.5% and 8%; BYOK $25,000 free then 5%) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
• Helicone$79

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08
  • Platform: Pro: $79
    $79 a month
    Flatkey, "AI Gateway Pricing (October 2026)" (Flatkey sells a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-10-22

  Not in this total: Pro $79 is from Flatkey reading the vendor page; the vendor page text we captured does not print a Pro base price. Usage-based charges above the free allowance are not itemised.

• TrueFoundry AI Gateway$95

  • Token markup: $0
    0% of $1,000 list-price spend
    TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Funding fee: $0
    Gateway credits: 0% of $1,000
    TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Seats: Pro ($25 per user, 20K requests per user): $75
    $25 × 3 seats
    TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
  • Log usage above allowance: $20
    40,000 extra ÷ 100,000 × $20
    TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10

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