IQ Routing alternatives

Tools that do what IQ Routing does, found by what they say they do rather than by shelf. Among the equally alike, the most used come first. Each line says how it differs from IQ Routing.

Read 2026-10-22 · IQ Routing itself: Free plan · From $6/mo

With a free plan or free to use: Cloudflare, Respan, GitHub, Experiential Labs, LangChain, Leanroute.

10 alternativesUnlike IQ Routing

#1
nRouter Developer tools
Routes LLM requests from one API key to many model providers, with guardrails, spend limits and fallbacks.
Same job
1
Active
From $5 once
2025
#2
Caveman Developer tools
Reduces AI agent token costs through model routing, auto-caching, prompt compression, and waste detection.
Also: Code generationMore widely used
9.6k
Active
Contact sales
#3
Cloudflare Security MCP · open
Proxies website traffic through a global network for CDN caching, DNS, DDoS protection and a web firewall, plus Workers serverless code and zero-trust access.
Costs moreAlso: Agents
4.9M
Active
From $20/mo
2009
#4
Respan Developer tools
Routes LLM requests through one gateway to reach multiple models with observability, caching, and evaluations.
Costs moreAlso: Monitoring
1.1k
Active
From $199/mo
2024
#5
GitHub Developer tools
Hosts Git repositories with pull requests, code review, issue tracking and Actions pipelines for building, testing and deploying code.
Also: Workflow automation, Code generationMore widely used
42M
From $4/user/mo
2007
#6
Experiential Labs Developer tools
Open-source gateway forwarding requests from a single endpoint to many model providers, billed at each provider's own rate.
Open sourceCosts more
47
Active
From $20/mo
#7
LangChain Developer tools
Provides the open-source LangChain and LangGraph frameworks for building LLM applications and agents, plus LangSmith for tracing, evaluating and deploying them.
Also: Agents, RAGMore widely used
92.2k
Active
From $39/user/mo
2023
#8
INFRO Developer tools
Routes AI model requests through your own provider accounts, enforcing budgets and recording estimated cost per request.
Costs more
5
Active
From $35/mo
#9
Leanroute Developer tools
Routes OpenAI-compatible API calls across 100 hosted LLMs and runs MCP tool loops on any model.
Costs more
2
Active
From $15/mo
#10
ngrok AI Gateway Developer tools
Routes requests to multiple LLM providers and self-hosted models through a single gateway with token-level observability and per-key access controls.
Also: Monitoring
131
Active
From $0.05 per use

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