Comparisons
AI Gateway Compared with the Alternatives
Gateways mostly differ on who runs them and what happens to your data. Here is how we compare.
Every Comparison
Side-by-side write-ups, each one about what we actually do.
Cascadia vs Bifrost
Bifrost is built for engineers who care about every microsecond of latency and want to run their own gateway.
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Cascadia vs Helicone
Helicone is good observability software, and its free tier is a fair place to start.
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Cascadia vs Kong
Kong AI Gateway extends a mature API gateway with semantic caching, token rate limits, failover, and guardrails.
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Cascadia vs LiteLLM
If you have an engineer who wants to own a proxy, LiteLLM is a fine choice and it is free.
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Cascadia vs OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a marketplace and a router, and a very good one.
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Cascadia vs Portkey
Portkey hands an engineer a strong set of controls.
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Cascadia vs TrueFoundry
TrueFoundry is a serious enterprise platform, with budget rules, guardrail policies, an MCP gateway, and deployment inside your own cloud.
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Cascadia vs Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel’s gateway is a good deal for developers, especially teams already deploying on Vercel.
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