Single OpenAI-compatible API and credit balance for 500+ models from 80+ providers, with fallbacks and routing rules.
AI/ML API alternatives
3 products our research names as a replacement for AI/ML API in AI Gateways & Routing, each with what it does differently — prices, API and status from our own checks rather than from the vendors’ own pages.
has a free tier
AI/ML API vs OpenRouter →Cloud API for running open and proprietary AI models, fine-tuning them and deploying your own, billed by usage.
fal.ai
75Developer platform serving 1,000+ generative image, video and audio models through one metered API
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Not named as direct replacements — neighbours from the same part of the catalog: the best-rated first, then a sample of the rest.
CleeAI
75A routing and verification layer that sits between your apps and language models to cut cost and catch ungrounded answers.
EUrouter
67EU-hosted LLM gateway with an OpenAI-compatible API and routing by price, quality or latency.
Unified pay-per-token gateway to over 100 text, image, and video AI models.
AnyAPI
71OpenAI-compatible gateway to 400+ models from one key, with routing and provider fallback.
PoYo AI
71Single async API for image, video, music, chat, and 3D generation models from many providers.
LiteLLM
81Open-source gateway and Python SDK that put 100+ LLM providers behind one OpenAI-style API, with keys, budgets and spend tracking.
Infron
68Pay-as-you-go gateway to about 500 AI models through one OpenAI-compatible API, with provider routing, fallbacks and a single balance.
Portkey
85AI gateway that routes requests to 1,600+ models through one API, with caching, fallbacks, guardrails and observability.
reAPI
71One REST endpoint for image, video, audio, chat and text models, billed from a prepaid credit balance
Privacy-first LLM gateway that routes chat and API requests through trusted hardware.
ApiFlux
68One API key routes requests to more than 100 models from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and others.
You.bot
71Pay-per-call API gateway giving one endpoint to 100+ video, image, music and text generation models.
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