Comparison

Envoy AI Gateway vs Not Diamond

No clear leader: Not Diamond (62.1) and Envoy AI Gateway (59.3) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Envoy AI Gateway59
Not Diamond62
Score
vioscaleAI score
Envoy AI Gateway59 / 100medium · 54%
Not Diamond62 / 100medium · 60%
Pricing
Free tier
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
Model
Envoy AI Gatewayopen_source
Not Diamondcommercial
Price level
Envoy AI Gatewayfree
Not Diamondlow
Starting price
Envoy AI Gateway–
Not Diamond$0.05
Transparent
Envoy AI Gateway–
Not Diamond✓
Integrations
Count
Envoy AI Gateway16
Not Diamond–
Security
Certifications
Envoy AI Gateway–
Not DiamondSOC 2, ISO 27001
Iso27001
Envoy AI Gateway–
Not Diamond✓
Soc2
Envoy AI Gateway–
Not Diamond✓
Trust center
Adoption
Dependent repos
Envoy AI Gateway0
Not Diamond–
Github stars
Envoy AI Gateway2,229
Not Diamond–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Envoy AI Gateway68
Not Diamond–
Release
Cadence days
Envoy AI Gateway6
Not Diamond–
History
Envoy AI Gateway20 items
Not Diamond–
License
Spdx
Envoy AI GatewayApache-2.0
Not Diamond–
Language
Primary
Envoy AI GatewayGo
Not Diamond–
Market
Availability
Envoy AI Gateway–
Content
Faq
Envoy AI Gateway6 items
Not Diamond–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for llm gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Automatic failover
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Routing strategy
Envoy AI GatewayCustom
Not DiamondCustom
Caching
Envoy AI GatewaySemantic
Not Diamond-
Virtual key management
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Budget spend controls
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Rate limiting
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Guardrails moderation
Envoy AI Gateway-
Not Diamond-
Request cost observability
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✓
Streaming support
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Deployment model
Envoy AI GatewaySelf hosted
Not DiamondManaged SaaS
Open source
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond-
Pricing model
Envoy AI GatewayOpen source self host
Not DiamondUsage based saas

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Envoy AI Gateway

An open-source gateway built on Envoy that centralizes AI traffic management by forwarding OpenAI-compatible requests to various LLM providers with automatic failover, token-based rate limiting, and Kubernetes-native deployment.

Independently observed

Not Diamond

A model routing service for coding agents that uses machine learning to predict and recommend the most cost-effective and accurate AI model for each request. Engineering teams typically achieve 20-40% cost savings without quality degradation through continuous learning from real usage patterns.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Envoy AI Gateway

Open sourceFree tier

Open-source. Commercial managed hosting and enterprise self-hosted options available.

as of verify ↗

Not Diamond

from $0.05/million tokensUsage-based

$0.05 per million tokens; enterprise plans available

  • Pay-as-you-go$0.05 per million tokens routed
    • Multi-harness support
    • Multi-provider support
    • Savings and usage dashboard
    • Continuous learning from harness usage
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Volume-based discounts
    • Organization-wide analytics
    • Advanced security and admin controls
    • SSO with SAML
    • Privacy-preserving deployment
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
CLI
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✓
Self-hosted
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✗
On-premise
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✗
Hybrid
Envoy AI Gateway✓
Not Diamond✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Envoy AI Gateway

28 total
  • OpenAI
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Gemini
  • Anthropic
  • Groq
  • Together AI
  • Mistral
  • Cohere
  • DeepInfra
  • DeepSeek
  • Hunyuan
  • Tencent LLM Knowledge Engine
  • SambaNova
  • Grok
  • OIDC
  • cert-manager
  • GCP Vertex AI
  • Gemini
  • vLLM
  • MCP
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS STS
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Not Diamond

Not documented yet.

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