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Comparison

Gloo AI Gateway vs LiteLLM

On the evidence we track, LiteLLM leads this comparison with a composite score of 81/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Gloo AI Gateway39
★LiteLLM81
Score
Vioscale score
Gloo AI Gateway39 / 100low · 24%
LiteLLM81 / 100low · 36%
Pricing
Free tier
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Model
Gloo AI Gatewayquote
LiteLLMfreemium
Price level
Gloo AI Gatewayunknown
LiteLLMlow
Transparent
Gloo AI Gateway✗
LiteLLM✓
Integrations
Count
Gloo AI Gateway3
LiteLLM140
Market
Availability
Gloo AI Gateway–
LiteLLMAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Automatic failover
Gloo AI Gateway✗
LiteLLM✓
Routing strategy
Gloo AI GatewayLoad based
LiteLLMCost based
Caching
Gloo AI Gateway-
LiteLLM-
Virtual key management
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Budget spend controls
Gloo AI Gateway✗
LiteLLM✓
Rate limiting
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Guardrails moderation
Gloo AI GatewayBuilt in
LiteLLMBuilt in
Request cost observability
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Streaming support
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM-
Deployment model
Gloo AI GatewaySelf hosted
LiteLLMSelf hosted
Open source
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Pricing model
Gloo AI GatewayContact sales
LiteLLMOpen source self host

What each one is

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

Gloo AI Gateway

A cloud-native API gateway built on Envoy that routes and secures traffic across microservices and APIs. Includes AI-specific features for managing LLM traffic, enforcing guardrails on prompts and responses, tracking LLM usage and costs, and enabling provider-agnostic API proxying.

Independently observed

LiteLLM

Leader

An open-source AI gateway that provides a centralized control point for managing multiple large language models from different providers. It offers virtual key management, spend tracking, budget controls, and intelligent request routing without charging per token.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Gloo AI Gateway

Quote-based

Custom quote-based pricing per deployment environment and use case.

as of verify ↗

LiteLLM

Leader
HybridFree tier30-day trial

Free open-source tier. Enterprise pricing based on annual request volume, not per-token.

  • Open SourceFree
    • 100+ LLM providers
    • Virtual keys, users & teams
    • Spend tracking
    • Prometheus metrics
    • Logging and alerting
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Open Source, plus:
    • SSO + SCIM provisioning
    • OIDC / JWT authentication
    • Audit logs on every request
    • Secret manager integration
    • +7 more
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Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
CLI
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Self-hosted
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
On-premise
Gloo AI Gateway✗
LiteLLM✓
Hybrid
Gloo AI Gateway✓
LiteLLM✓
Air-gapped
Gloo AI Gateway✗
LiteLLM✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • OpenAI

Gloo AI Gateway

3 total - 2 not shared
  • AWS S3
  • Kubernetes
Independently observed

LiteLLM

Leader
32 total - 31 not shared
  • Anthropic
  • Azure
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Cloudflare
  • Google VertexAI
  • Meta Llama
  • Mistral AI
  • NLP Cloud
  • OVHCloud
  • vLLM
  • Nvidia NIM
  • Slack
  • Discord
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • Prometheus
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • Google Cloud Secret Manager
  • MCP servers
  • Gemini
  • Bedrock
  • VertexAI
  • Langfuse
  • Langsmith
  • +7 more
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.