Juggling separate API keys, incompatible payload schemas, and unpredictable rate limits across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini slows down every AI workflow, and Octopus solves it by consolidating all your upstream model providers into one self-hosted API gateway. Point Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, or any SDK client at a single gateway URL and translate requests transparently between OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages, and Google Gemini endpoints without modifying client code. Group multiple provider channels under a unified model alias so your coding agents automatically fail over to backup providers and shield active tasks from upstream HTTP errors or rate limits. Watch live end-to-end request routing on the interactive topology canvas as prompts flow from client applications through model groups to specific upstream channels. Synchronize available model catalogs directly from connected providers and pull up-to-date token pricing from models.dev, or define custom per-million input, output, and cache-read rates for private deployments. Inspect detailed request logs, monitor token consumption trends, and audit daily API spend across every channel from the web dashboard. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

BitRouter is a context-aware LLM router that learns which model delivers the cheapest successful outcome per workflow step, cutting agent costs by up to 80% while maintaining 96% quality versus all-frontier baselines. Point any agent runtime at http://localhost:4356 with a one-line OPENAI_BASE_URL change and BitRouter routes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral, Moonshot, MiniMax, Nvidia, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint simultaneously, normalizing authentication, streaming, and cross-protocol translation between wire formats. The act-observe-evaluate-learn loop traces every hop with cost, tokens, and latency attribution, scores each decision against a versioned policy-lock.yaml, then tightens routes automatically with no LLM judge in the path. Native MCP gateway auto-discovers tools from connected servers and makes them routable and governed alongside model calls. Agent Client Protocol integration enables the TUI to manage Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Gemini, and Copilot sessions in real time with inline tool-call approval and live streaming. Built-in guardrails inspect, redact, or block risky content before requests leave your network. Virtual keys scope API access per agent or user without exposing upstream credentials. Per-agent spend caps and loop guards contain runaway cost automatically. Multi-account failover reroutes mid-run so rate limits never re-pay completed work. Ships as a single Rust binary via npm or Cargo. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

GPT Load has become the go-to self-hosted AI gateway for teams managing multiple LLM provider credentials behind a single URL. The Go-built proxy transparently preserves native API formats for OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages, and Google Gemini — applications swap one base URL and keep their existing SDK integration untouched. Twenty built-in channels cover official APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI), cloud platforms (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI), model services (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, SiliconFlow, Zhipu AI, Alibaba Cloud, Volcengine, OpenRouter, Groq), and subscription accounts (Codex, Claude, Antigravity, Grok) using the same credential management, scheduling, and health system. The intelligent key pool rotates among valid credentials using atomic counters for fair high-concurrency distribution, automatically blacklists failing keys after configurable thresholds, and recovers them via scheduled health checks — all transparent to clients. Weighted load balancing distributes traffic across multiple upstream endpoints while per-credential proxies route individual keys through different egress paths. The Vue 3 management dashboard provides real-time statistics, group configuration, key testing, request logs with full debugging context, per-model cost estimates, and route inspection. Docker deployment exposes the management interface and proxy on port 3001 with SQLite by default, MySQL or PostgreSQL optional, and Redis for distributed leader-follower cluster scaling. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

New API is a Go-powered LLM gateway that funnels over 40 AI providers, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Google Gemini, Azure, AWS Bedrock, DeepSeek, and Mistral, through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint with intelligent routing and enterprise cost controls. Bidirectional format conversion translates between OpenAI Chat Completions, Claude Messages, and Gemini GenerateContent APIs transparently, so clients call any provider using their preferred format while the gateway handles the rest. Routing logic supports weighted random channel selection, priority-based failover, and automatic retry on provider errors to maximize uptime. The React admin dashboard shows usage charts, token consumption tracking, per-model cost breakdowns, and real-time request monitoring. Multi-tenant architecture includes three role levels, token-based authentication, per-user quota management, and a three-phase billing system with tiered pricing via a custom expression language. Multimodal support covers text completion, vision, embeddings, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, image generation, and creative task providers like Midjourney-Proxy and Suno-API. The interface ships in five languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, and French. Docker deployment runs with SQLite or MySQL for persistence. 45,000+ GitHub stars. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Backed by 56,000+ GitHub stars and over 240 million Docker pulls, LiteLLM delivers the open-source AI gateway trusted by Netflix, Lemonade, Rocket Money, and thousands of engineering teams to route every LLM request through one unified API. The Rust-core gateway adds sub-millisecond overhead per request with 8ms P95 latency at 1,000 RPS, 15x throughput improvement and 11x lower memory footprint compared to Python-only proxies. A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint connects to 100+ providers and 1,800+ models spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, Hugging Face, vLLM, Nvidia NIM, Ollama, and Mistral with day-zero support for new model releases. The Auto Router V2 classifies request complexity across four tiers using rule-based scoring, semantic keyword matching, and adaptive Thompson sampling to route each request to the most cost-effective model without API calls or training data. Virtual API keys enable multi-tenant governance with per-team, per-user, and per-project cost tracking, budget caps with automatic fallback rerouting, and role-based access control. Built-in guardrails provide PII masking, prompt injection detection, and model-graded evaluation before requests reach providers. The Agent Gateway extends routing from model calls to agent workflows with MCP server integration. Observability integrates with Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, OpenTelemetry, and MLflow for complete request tracing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Inference Gateway puts a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Cohere, Ollama, DeepSeek, Google, Mistral, MiniMax, Moonshot, Nvidia, and llama.cpp, so your application code never changes when you switch models or providers. The Go binary starts on port 8080 and normalizes authentication, streaming protocols, and response formats across all backends transparently. Native Model Context Protocol support auto-discovers tools from connected MCP servers and injects them into LLM requests without client-side management, enabling server-side tool execution across any provider that supports function calling. Agent-to-Agent protocol integration allows distributed agent communication through a declarative Agent Definition Language that generates production-ready Go or Rust servers from a single YAML manifest. The dedicated Kubernetes Operator manages Gateway, Agent, MCP, and Orchestrator custom resources with automatic HPA scaling, OIDC authentication, and service discovery that rebuilds MCP configurations when the discovered server set changes. Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing provide full request-level observability across the entire inference pipeline. Middleware controls enable per-request provider selection, model routing, and fallback strategies. Official SDKs in Go, Python, TypeScript, and Rust provide typed client interfaces with streaming support. Docker Compose deployment requires only environment variables for API keys. A CNCF Sandbox applicant. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway that unifies 23+ LLM providers into a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint with automatic failover, semantic caching, and built-in cost governance, so one provider going down never takes your production AI application with it. Point your existing OpenAI or Anthropic SDK at Bifrost's local endpoint and gain access to OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Azure, Groq, Mistral, and Ollama without changing application code. Define fallback chains that automatically switch providers when one returns errors or exceeds latency thresholds, keeping response times stable during outages. The built-in web dashboard at port 8080 lets you configure providers, create virtual API keys, monitor live request traffic, and review analytics without editing configuration files. Semantic caching combines exact hash matching with vector similarity search via Weaviate, serving cached responses for identical or paraphrased prompts in sub-millisecond time to cut costs on repetitive workloads. The MCP gateway connects AI agents to external tools like filesystems, databases, and web APIs, exposing them to clients such as Claude Desktop and Cursor with per-key allow-lists. Four-tier budget hierarchy at customer, team, virtual key, and provider levels enforces spend caps, rate limits, and model restrictions across your organization. Extend functionality through custom Go plugins for analytics, monitoring, or security middleware. Native Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry distributed tracing give operations teams full production observability. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

OmniRoute is an AI gateway, aggregating 338 LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, and GLM into a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint at localhost:20128. The gateway catalogs over 1,200 models across 90 free-tier providers and 40 free-forever providers, automatically rotating through tier-1, tier-2, and tier-3 fallback chains when any provider exhausts its quota or returns errors. RTK plus Caveman stacked token compression reduces eligible context by 15 to 95 percent before forwarding requests, cutting API costs dramatically without degrading output quality. OmniRoute exposes its full routing engine through a built-in MCP server with 104 tools across 31 scopes over stdio, HTTP, and SSE transports, plus an A2A protocol server with six autonomous agent skills and JSON-RPC 2.0 streaming. The gateway integrates directly with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, OpenCode, and Cline through standard base-URL configuration. Seventeen routing strategies include latency-optimized, cost-minimized, and auto-scoring modes that evaluate candidates on success rate, context fit, model fitness, quota state, and circuit-breaker health. The Next.js dashboard provides real-time provider status, usage analytics, combo chain configuration, and model catalog browsing via a responsive PWA. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Backed by the Linux Foundation with contributions from AWS, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Shell, Agentgateway is the first data plane built from the ground up for AI agent workloads — providing a unified Rust-based proxy that handles conventional HTTP and gRPC traffic alongside MCP tool servers, A2A agent communication, and LLM inference endpoints through a single deployment. The LLM gateway routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and other providers through an OpenAI-compatible unified API with per-tenant budget controls, spend tracking, prompt enrichment, load balancing across multiple model endpoints, and automatic failover when providers experience outages. The MCP gateway federates multiple tool servers behind one endpoint, supporting stdio, HTTP/SSE, and Streamable HTTP transports with built-in OAuth authentication compliant with the MCP auth specification, integrating Auth0 and Keycloak out of the box. OpenAPI integration exposes existing REST APIs as MCP-native tools without code changes, enabling legacy services to participate in agent workflows. Policy-based RBAC controls which agents access which tools, while OpenTelemetry integration provides distributed tracing across agent communication chains. Deploy as a standalone binary with flat YAML configuration or on Kubernetes using the built-in controller with Gateway API support for declarative infrastructure-as-code management. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

With over 43,000 GitHub stars and adoption by companies including Nasdaq, Samsung, and Expedia, Kong Gateway is the world's most deployed open-source API gateway, processing billions of API requests daily across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures. Built on the battle-tested NGINX engine with OpenResty's LuaJIT runtime, Kong delivers sub-millisecond proxy latency while supporting REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, SOAP, and Kafka protocols. The plugin architecture includes authentication via JWT, Basic Auth, HMAC, key authentication, OAuth 2.0, and LDAP, alongside rate limiting with configurable windows per consumer, IP address, or API key. The AI Proxy plugin provides a universal LLM API that routes across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral, and Hugging Face through a single standardized interface, while MCP proxy capabilities convert REST APIs into MCP tools and provide traffic governance for AI agents. Kong supports declarative configuration via YAML for GitOps workflows, a RESTful Admin API for dynamic configuration, and decK CLI for version-controlled infrastructure-as-code management. Upstream health checking with active and passive probes enables automatic failover, and the ring balancer distributes traffic across upstream targets with consistent hashing, round-robin, or least-connections algorithms. The Kong Plugin Hub hosts over 100 community and official plugins covering logging, monitoring, transformation, security, and traffic control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

With 17,000 GitHub stars, 460+ contributors, and deployments across telecommunications, automotive, and financial services running on over 10,000 CPU cores at the largest known installations, Apache APISIX delivers a fully dynamic API gateway achieving 140,000 QPS on eight cores with sub-millisecond latency through NGINX's event-driven architecture and LuaJIT-compiled plugin execution. The 100+ open-source plugins cover authentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Keycloak, LDAP), observability (Prometheus, Datadog, SkyWalking, OpenTelemetry), traffic management (rate limiting, circuit breaking, canary releases, traffic splitting), and security (CORS, IP restriction, CSRF protection) — all hot-reloadable without process restarts via etcd-based real-time configuration synchronization. Multi-protocol support handles HTTP, gRPC, MQTT, TCP, UDP, and WebSocket traffic for both north-south API access and east-west service mesh communication. AI gateway capabilities proxy requests to 20+ LLM providers with semantic caching, token-aware rate limiting, provider failover routing, and content moderation. Custom plugins extend the gateway in Lua, Go, Java, Python, or WebAssembly. Radixtree route matching handles 100,000+ routes without performance degradation. Functions as a Kubernetes ingress controller with native service discovery for Consul, Nacos, and Eureka. Deploy via Docker or Helm charts with horizontal scaling through etcd cluster coordination. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

KrakenD processes over 18,000 requests per second on a single instance while consuming under 50MB of RAM at 1,000 concurrent connections, operating as a stateless API gateway that requires no database whatsoever. The Community Edition has earned over 2,600 GitHub stars by outperforming database-dependent alternatives like Kong and Tyk in independent benchmarks. Written entirely in Go, it uses declarative JSON or YAML configuration files that integrate directly into GitOps workflows for version-controlled infrastructure management. The gateway aggregates responses from multiple backend services into a single API call, transforms request and response payloads with field filtering, grouping, and mapping, and applies zero-trust security policies including JWT validation, OAuth 2.0, CORS, HSTS, clickjacking protection, and XSS prevention. Traffic management features include multi-layer rate limiting at both the router and proxy levels, circuit breakers for backend fault isolation, spike arrest policies, and concurrent call support that requests the same data from multiple backends in parallel for improved response times. Telemetry integrates with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, Datadog, Zipkin, and Jaeger for distributed tracing and metrics collection. The gateway extends through Go plugins, Lua scripting, Martian modifiers, and Google CEL expressions for custom request processing logic. AI workload routing supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other model endpoints with built-in fallback, retries, and load balancing. Deploy via Docker with the devopsfaith/krakend image as a single binary. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

CPA Manager Plus is a self-hosted observability dashboard and management panel that tracks every AI request flowing through your CLI Proxy API gateway, breaking down failures, costs, and account health across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Codex in one interface. When a request fails, drill into the persistent history to see status codes, affected models, latency, and redacted failure evidence without exposing raw response bodies. The cost analytics engine breaks down token consumption and estimated spend by model, provider, account, API key, project, channel, and time range while tracking input, output, reasoning, cache, and service-tier pricing semantics separately. Model prices sync automatically from models.dev with LiteLLM and OpenRouter fallbacks, and you can add local overrides for aliases or internal models. For teams running Codex or xAI accounts, the health inspector reads quota windows, reset evidence, credential state, and workspace status on a configurable schedule, routing credential failures into an action queue for review rather than letting them silently degrade throughput. Deploy the Lightweight Panel to replace your existing CPA management UI without adding another service, or run Full Mode as a single Docker container that adds the Manager Server with persistent SQLite storage for request history, historical analytics, and automated account inspections. Export or import request history as JSONL for external analysis, and back up the SQLite files alongside your encrypted management keys. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Backed by Y Combinator and trusted by over 2,300 companies processing billions of observations monthly, Langfuse is the most widely adopted open-source platform for building, monitoring, evaluating, and debugging LLM applications. The hierarchical tracing engine captures every LLM call, tool invocation, retrieval step, and agent action as nested spans based on OpenTelemetry, with automatic cost calculation, latency tracking, and token usage attribution across sessions and users. Prompt Management separates prompts from code with versioned artifacts, label-based deployments, one-click rollbacks, and runtime SDK fetching with server-side caching, while linking every generation back to its exact prompt version for attribution analytics. The evaluation system supports LLM-as-a-judge scoring, heuristic code evaluators, user feedback collection, and manual annotation workflows that run automatically on production traces or against curated datasets. The Playground enables interactive prompt testing on real production inputs with side-by-side model comparison across providers. Datasets and Experiments define test cases for systematic benchmarking with comparative result visualization. Native SDKs for Python and TypeScript provide decorator-based instrumentation, while 100+ integrations cover LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, Vercel AI SDK, and any OpenTelemetry-instrumented framework. The analytics dashboard surfaces cost breakdowns, quality scores, latency percentiles, and usage trends across models and prompt versions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Your AI application is burning through API tokens faster than you can refresh the billing page, and you have no idea which prompt template is responsible. OpenLIT plugs that visibility gap with a self-hosted observability platform built specifically for LLM workloads. Add one line of code to instrument 90+ LLM providers, agent frameworks, and vector databases, then watch every request flow through a tracing dashboard that shows tokens consumed, latency measured, and dollars spent per call, per model, per environment. The requests view lists every LLM interaction with provider, model, cost, and token breakdown in a filterable table, while the trace detail panel lets you drill into individual spans to read the exact prompt sent and response received. Prompt Hub turns prompts into versioned artifacts you deploy, rollback, and A/B test without touching application code. OpenGround compares models side by side on the same input, so you can evaluate cost-versus-quality tradeoffs before committing to a provider. Automated evaluations run LLM-as-a-judge scoring on live production traces, flagging hallucinations, bias, and toxicity in real time. The Vault stores and rotates API keys centrally so secrets stay out of your codebase. Custom dashboards let you build drag-and-drop monitoring views with charts, stat cards, and tables backed by SQL queries against ClickHouse. GPU utilization, memory, temperature, and power metrics feed into the same platform for end-to-end infrastructure visibility. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

When an AI agent breaks in production, Tracely freezes that exact run into a replayable regression test and blocks the pull request that would ship the bug again. Span soup hides the failure. OTLP/HTTP traces group into conversation threads, and a waterfall marks the failing span in red with its input and output. Nobody knows if an answer was good. Evaluators sit as columns on the trace table, mixing model-free checks with LLM judges at conversation, run, or span level. Thirty-one broken runs, one issue. Clustering turns them into a single counted issue and can suggest the evaluator that would have caught it. A fix nobody can prove. One click promotes a failing trace into a hermetic case with recorded fixtures and a fail-to-pass contract, and scenarios send a red-team model after an adversarial goal. Model bills on every CI run. The suite replays offline with no API keys and no model spend, and tracely gate posts a commit status, comments on the pull request, and blocks regressions. No warning when it breaks again. Alert flows drawn on a canvas react to failed gates, broken conversations, unseen failure modes, or rising failure rates by messaging Slack, sending email, calling a webhook, or prompting an LLM. Coding agents can read traces and write evaluators through an MCP endpoint. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every call your AI agents make becomes a searchable trace in LangWatch, and the same platform tests and scores those agents before a new prompt or model reaches users. The Trace Explorer filters by origin, user, model, cost, and evaluator, reads each run as a waterfall, flame graph, topology, or sequence diagram, and takes traces from the Python, TypeScript, and Go SDKs or any OpenTelemetry source. Agent Testing sends simulated users, in text or beta voice calls, through your agent while a judge passes or fails every criterion with its reasoning, adds multi-turn red teaming, and compares two agents side by side. The Experiments workbench scores prompts and agents on datasets with LLM judges, exact match, and RAG checks, then compares runs on cost, latency, and pass rate, while online evaluations monitor live traffic and guardrails block unsafe replies. Prompts keep version history and staging or production tags, Workflows wire prompts, Python code, and HTTP calls on a visual canvas, and annotation queues route traces to human reviewers. Alerts fire when a graph crosses a threshold, automations post to Slack, email, or webhooks, and scheduled reports go out by email or Slack. Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and opencode report session cost, pull request cost, and terminal replays, and an MCP server exposes trace search and prompt management to coding assistants. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.