AI gateway pricing compared
Searches for "AI gateway" often mean Cloudflare AI Gateway or Vercel AI Gateway by name (our reading, not verified). Here are all of them with your own keys, at $5,000 a month.
Scenario. $5,000 a month of list-price tokens, 500,000 logs, 5 seats, own keys. Ordered by total bill, lowest first. Not a quality ranking.
OpenRouter$0
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
OpenRouter pricing page (5.5% and 8%; BYOK $25,000 free then 5%) OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: first $25,000 free, then 5% of the rest
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
- Token markup: $0
Vercel AI Gateway$0
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
Vercel AI Gateway pricing docs OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
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
- Token markup: $0
LiteLLM$0
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
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.
- Token markup: $0
Bifrost (Maxim)$0
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
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.
- Token markup: $0
Continuum$0
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
Continuum home page ("free, vendor-neutral app") OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
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.
- Token markup: $0
Kong AI Gateway (Konnect)$25
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 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
Own keys: 0% fee
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.
- Token markup: $0
Helicone$79
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
Continuum, "Best LLM gateways 2026: 9 compared and scored" (Continuum builds a gateway) VENDOR-WRITTEN 2026-08 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
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.
- Token markup: $0
Portkey$85
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Platform: Production: $49
$49 a month
Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Log usage above allowance: $36
400,000 extra ÷ 100,000 × $9
Portkey pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
- Token markup: $0
TrueFoundry AI Gateway$205
- Token markup: $0
0% of $5,000 list-price spend
TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Funding fee: $0
Own keys: 0% fee
TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Seats: Pro ($25 per user, 20K requests per user): $125
$25 × 5 seats
TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10 - Log usage above allowance: $80
400,000 extra ÷ 100,000 × $20
TrueFoundry pricing page OFFICIAL 2026-11-10
- Token markup: $0
markupfundinglogs and platformseats
Not priced
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: No plan covers 500,000 logs
- Flatkey: Prices vary per model; the calculator needs your model mix.