# Bifrost alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 171 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Bifrost holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/bifrost/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- LiteLLM: 42
- Portkey: 38
- Helicone: 7
- OpenRouter: 7
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: 4
- FastRouter: 3

## LLM gateways and observability

**Small business**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Bifrost (Bifrost is #8 of 9 at 0%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 21 of those 68
- Portkey: first choice in 20 of those 68
- OpenRouter: first choice in 7 of those 68
- Helicone: first choice in 5 of those 68
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 68
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Vercel AI Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Anthropic: first choice in 1 of those 68

**Mid-market**: 59 of 84 answers did not name Bifrost (Bifrost is #3 of 9 at 6%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 14 of those 59
- Portkey: first choice in 12 of those 59
- Helicone: first choice in 2 of those 59
- Braintrust Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 59
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 59
- Envoy AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 59
- FastRouter: first choice in 1 of those 59
- LangSmith: first choice in 1 of those 59

**Enterprise**: 44 of 84 answers did not name Bifrost (Bifrost is #1 of 10 at 23%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 7 of those 44
- Portkey: first choice in 6 of those 44
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 44
- Confident AI: first choice in 2 of those 44
- FastRouter: first choice in 2 of those 44
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Azure AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Datadog LLM Observability: first choice in 1 of those 44

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