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AI/ML API alternatives

6 coding tools in the same lane as AI/ML API, ranked by editorial score.

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Portkey AI Gateway

Agents · Multi-model (1,600+ LLMs)

Open-source AI gateway that routes a single API call across 1,600+ LLMs with caching, fallbacks, and observability.

Freemium· Developer: Free Forever · Production: $49/month · Enterprise: Custom Pricingllm-routingfallbacks-and-retries

Artificial Analysis

Evaluation · Multi-model

Independent benchmarking platform comparing AI models and inference providers across intelligence, speed, and cost.

Freemium· Pro: $417/month per seat · Enterprise: Custom pricingmodel-benchmarkingprovider-comparison

Price Per Token

Coding · Multi-model

Daily-updated LLM API pricing comparison across 300+ models, with calculators, leaderboards, and a free MCP server.

Free· Free; ad-supported, no signupllm-pricing-comparisontoken-cost-calculator

OpenRouter

Coding · Multi-model

Unified API gateway to 400+ LLMs from 70+ providers, with one OpenAI-compatible endpoint and automatic failover.

Freemium· Pay-as-you-go credits; sample packs $10 and $99; some free-tier models availablellm-routingmulti-model-access

AI SDK

Coding · Multi-model

Vercel's open-source TypeScript framework for building AI apps across 16+ providers with unified streaming, tools, and UI hooks.

Free· Open source (Apache 2.0); pay only for the underlying model APIschat-uiagent-building

LLM by Datasette

Coding · Multi-model

A CLI and Python library for running prompts against any LLM provider and logging everything to SQLite.

Free· Free and open source (Apache 2.0); pay underlying model providers separatelycli-promptingprompt-logging