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The best Requesty alternatives

The leading Requesty alternatives are Amux AI, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Gateway, LiteLLM and Portkey. Teams usually switch for three reasons: avoiding the 5% service fee, needing video generation and broader native protocol support, or wanting team budgets without plan restrictions. Below, six leading options are compared on pricing, protocol compatibility, hosting model and governance.

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Last verified 2026-10-19

At a glance

OptionDeploymentPricingBest for
Amux AIOur productHostedNo markup or top-up fee; discounted low-cost and official channelsTeams that want lower costs, need video generation, or want enterprise-grade organization and budget management.
OpenRouterHostedNo inference markup; 5.5% fee on card top-upsDevelopers who prioritize model count and need broad long-tail and open-weight coverage.
Vercel AI GatewayHostedNo markup; payment fees passed onTeams already building on Vercel and the AI SDK.
Cloudflare AI GatewayHosted (edge network)Core features free; 5% fee on Unified Billing creditsTeams on Cloudflare Workers that want caching and observability in front of existing provider accounts.
LiteLLMOpen source, self-hostedFree and open source; pay each upstream directlyTeams that require fully self-managed deployment and strict control over the data path.
PortkeyHosted or self-hostedPriced by log volume, from $49/monthEnterprise teams that prioritize logging, guardrails and compliance.

What to look for

  1. 01

    Pricing and fees

    Whether inference is marked up, whether there is a service or top-up fee, and whether credit expires. At high volume, a few percentage points translate directly into cost.

  2. 02

    Protocol compatibility

    Whether the protocols your SDKs and tools use are supported natively. Native support means migrating by changing the base URL, with no code rewrite.

  3. 03

    Multimodal coverage

    Whether image and video generation are covered beyond text, and whether they keep the vendor’s native request format.

  4. 04

    Hosted or self-hosted

    Hosted services remove deployment and operations work; self-hosted options give full control of the data path but leave upstream accounts, keys and scaling to you.

  5. 05

    Teams and governance

    Whether organizations, workspaces, role permissions and spend limits are available on every plan — the foundation for using LLMs across a growing team.

  6. 06

    Data privacy

    Whether prompts and responses are stored by default and for how long, whether they are used for training, and whether zero-retention options exist.

Top Requesty alternatives

  1. 01

    Amux AI

    Our productHosted

    A hosted LLM API gateway with 80+ text, image and video models, no inference markup, no top-up fees and low-cost channels far below official pricing and discounted official channels. Natively supports OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini protocols plus vendor image and video protocols.

    Pricing
    No markup or top-up fee; discounted low-cost and official channels
    Best for
    Teams that want lower costs, need video generation, or want enterprise-grade organization and budget management.
    Considerations
    Embeddings, speech and SAML SSO are on the roadmap; bringing your own upstream keys is not supported yet.
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  2. 02

    OpenRouter

    Hosted

    A hosted model marketplace advertising 500+ models from 80+ providers, with BYOK and enterprise SSO.

    Pricing
    No inference markup; 5.5% fee on card top-ups
    Best for
    Developers who prioritize model count and need broad long-tail and open-weight coverage.
    Considerations
    Top-ups carry a fee; workspace budgets and role assignment are Enterprise-only.
  3. 03

    Vercel AI Gateway

    Hosted

    Vercel's hosted gateway with no markup and no platform fee on tokens, including BYOK.

    Pricing
    No markup; payment fees passed on
    Best for
    Teams already building on Vercel and the AI SDK.
    Considerations
    Requires a Vercel team account; purchased credits expire after one year.
  4. 04

    Cloudflare AI Gateway

    Hosted (edge network)

    A gateway on Cloudflare's edge network with free analytics, caching and rate limiting; credits are purchased through Unified Billing.

    Pricing
    Core features free; 5% fee on Unified Billing credits
    Best for
    Teams on Cloudflare Workers that want caching and observability in front of existing provider accounts.
    Considerations
    Unified Billing charges a 5% fee on credit purchases; log allowances depend on the Workers plan.
  5. 05

    LiteLLM

    Open source, self-hosted

    An MIT-licensed Python SDK and self-hosted proxy that unifies calls to 100+ LLMs.

    Pricing
    Free and open source; pay each upstream directly
    Best for
    Teams that require fully self-managed deployment and strict control over the data path.
    Considerations
    You deploy and operate it yourself and manage accounts, keys and billing for each upstream; SSO and audit logs are enterprise features.
  6. 06

    Portkey

    Hosted or self-hosted

    A gateway centered on observability and governance, available as open-source self-hosted software or a hosted service.

    Pricing
    Priced by log volume, from $49/month
    Best for
    Enterprise teams that prioritize logging, guardrails and compliance.
    Considerations
    Priced by log volume — the Production plan is $49/month for 100,000 logs; you bring your own upstream accounts.

Frequently asked questions

It depends on your priority. For lower costs, video generation or team budgets, choose Amux AI. For the largest model catalog, choose OpenRouter. If you are deep in the Vercel or Cloudflare ecosystem, use that platform’s gateway. For fully self-managed deployment, choose LiteLLM. For logging and compliance governance, choose Portkey.

Among hosted options, Amux AI has no inference markup and no top-up fee, and low-cost channels go far below official pricing while official channels are discounted too; OpenRouter charges 5.5% on card top-ups, Cloudflare Unified Billing charges 5% on credit purchases, and Vercel passes payment fees on to you. Self-hosted options have no platform fee but carry deployment and operations costs, and you pay each upstream at its official price.

Amux AI natively supports Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Volcengine Seedance, MiniMax and xAI video protocols plus a unified task API, so existing client code only needs a new base URL. OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway offer their own video APIs; a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy also offers a video API, with your own upstream accounts.

Most platforms are compatible with the OpenAI SDK, so switching usually means changing the base URL and API key. The main differences are model ID formats and routing policies, so check model names and recreate your fallback policies on the new platform.

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