# LLM Gateway: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge labels across 1 categories by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/llm-gateway/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM gateways and observability | 0% | 28 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Core gateway free under AGPLv3, self-hostable" (Kimi K2, LLM gateways)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise.

- LLM gateways and observability: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 28 of 69.

## In its own words

What LLM Gateway's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Open-source, OpenAI-compatible LLM API gateway to 250+ models from 40+ providers, with retries, failover across providers that serve the same model, spend limits and per-request costs built in. (https://llmgateway.io/)
- For: Product & platform teams (https://llmgateway.io/)
- Price stated: Bring your own provider keys at no platform fee. Credits are pay-as-you-go with a 5% platform fee on top-ups and no token markup; non-US cards may add a 1.5% international card fee. Optional full data retention costs $0.01 per 1M tokens in both modes. Enterprise pricing is custom, with volume discounts and a 99.9% uptime SLA on Enterprise Cloud. (https://llmgateway.io/)
- Starting price: Free (https://llmgateway.io/)
- Free plan or trial: 30-day production pilot (https://llmgateway.io/)
- Integrations claimed: 40 (https://llmgateway.io/pricing)
- Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, SOC 2 Type II compliant, AICPA SOC for Service Organizations, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, AICPA SOC for Service Organizations badge, SOC 2 Type I
- Hosting: Sydney, Australia
- Customers named: Samsung, Harvard, Coloop.ai, FieldKo

## What it publishes

Every page llmgateway.io exposes, read 2026-09-29: 1098 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 78 pages, 39 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-28
- report or ebook: 27 pages, 23 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-23
- comparison: 43 pages, 12 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-24
- template or tool: 5 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-04
- glossary or explainer: 41 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-15
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Perplexity search api https://llmgateway.io/blog/perplexity-search-api
- Recent: 2026-09-26 blog: Smart routing benchmark https://llmgateway.io/blog/smart-routing-benchmark
- Recent: 2026-09-25 blog: Automatic model selection https://llmgateway.io/blog/automatic-model-selection
- Recent: 2026-09-25 blog: Llm routing savings 100k https://llmgateway.io/blog/llm-routing-savings-100k
- Recent: 2026-09-23 blog: Compliance alerts https://llmgateway.io/blog/compliance-alerts
- Recent: 2026-09-23 report or ebook: Anvil https://llmgateway.io/guides/anvil

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.