# Cloudflare AI Gateway alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 179 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Cloudflare AI Gateway 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/cloudflare-ai-gateway/alternatives

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

- Portkey: 39
- LiteLLM: 28
- Bifrost: 16
- Helicone: 7
- FastRouter: 5
- OpenRouter: 5

## LLM gateways and observability

**Small business**: 59 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare AI Gateway (Cloudflare AI Gateway is #5 of 9 at 3%).

- Portkey: first choice in 18 of those 59
- LiteLLM: first choice in 14 of those 59
- Helicone: first choice in 5 of those 59
- OpenRouter: first choice in 5 of those 59
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 59
- Anthropic: first choice in 1 of those 59
- Bifrost: first choice in 1 of those 59
- LangSmith: first choice in 1 of those 59

**Mid-market**: 54 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare AI Gateway (Cloudflare AI Gateway is #5 of 9 at 2%).

- Portkey: first choice in 13 of those 54
- LiteLLM: first choice in 7 of those 54
- Bifrost: first choice in 2 of those 54
- Helicone: first choice in 2 of those 54
- Braintrust Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 54
- Envoy AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 54
- FastRouter: first choice in 1 of those 54
- LangSmith: first choice in 1 of those 54

**Enterprise**: 66 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare AI Gateway (Cloudflare AI Gateway is #8 of 10 at 0%).

- Bifrost: first choice in 13 of those 66
- Portkey: first choice in 8 of those 66
- LiteLLM: first choice in 7 of those 66
- FastRouter: first choice in 4 of those 66
- Kong AI Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 66
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 66
- Confident AI: first choice in 2 of those 66
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 66

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