Kaeso alternatives

Tools that do what Kaeso 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 Kaeso.

Read 2026-11-02

With a free plan or free to use: Experiential Labs, VoidLLM, LiteLLM, GitHub.

10 alternativesUnlike Kaeso

#1
Experiential Labs Developer tools
Open-source gateway forwarding requests from a single endpoint to many model providers, billed at each provider's own rate.
Free planMore widely used
47
Active
From $20/mo
#2
VoidLLM Developer tools
Self-hosted gateway that routes requests to multiple LLM providers with zero-knowledge architecture, never storing prompts or responses.
Free plan
3
Active
From ≈ $55/mo
#3
OwlVigil Developer tools
Routes AI requests from teams to OpenAI, Anthropic and other providers through one gateway, with scoped keys, budgets and audit logs.
Same job
1
Active
From $19/mo
#4
Busbar Developer tools
Self-hosted Rust binary that routes AI requests across providers with failover, budget caps and translated OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock and Cohere APIs.
Same job
218 ★
Active
#5
Kong Inc.Developer tools MCP · sign-in
Routes, secures and meters API and LLM traffic through a gateway that proxies requests and enforces plugins for auth, rate limits and token costs.
More widely used
19.2k
Active
From $25/mo
#6
LiteLLM LLM operations
Routes requests across 140+ LLM providers and 1800+ models through a single API gateway with cost optimization and access controls.
Free planMore widely used
15.2k
Active
Open source
2023
#7
ngrok AI Gateway LLM operations
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
#8
Aurora Gateway LLM operations
Routes requests to any LLM provider with caching, failover, and usage tracking.
Same job
Emerging
Active
2026
#9
ZenMux Developer tools
Unified API gateway providing access to 100+ AI models with automatic failover and built-in compensation for poor outputs.
More widely used
2.5k
Active
From $20/mo
#10
GitHub Developer tools
Hosts Git repositories with pull requests, code review, issue tracking and Actions pipelines for building, testing and deploying code.
Free planAlso: Workflow automation, Code generation
42M
Active
From $4/user/mo
2007

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