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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 194 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Kong 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/kong-ai-gateway/alternatives

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

- LiteLLM: 50
- Portkey: 45
- Helicone: 8
- Bifrost: 7
- OpenRouter: 7
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: 5

## LLM gateways and observability

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Kong AI Gateway (Kong AI Gateway is #9 of 9 at 0%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 29 of those 79
- Portkey: first choice in 24 of those 79
- OpenRouter: first choice in 7 of those 79
- Helicone: first choice in 6 of those 79
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Vercel AI Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Anthropic: first choice in 1 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Kong AI Gateway (Kong AI Gateway is #8 of 9 at 0%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 15 of those 63
- Portkey: first choice in 14 of those 63
- Bifrost: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Helicone: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Braintrust Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Envoy AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 63
- FastRouter: first choice in 1 of those 63

**Enterprise**: 52 of 84 answers did not name Kong AI Gateway (Kong AI Gateway is #4 of 10 at 4%).

- Portkey: first choice in 7 of those 52
- LiteLLM: first choice in 6 of those 52
- Bifrost: first choice in 5 of those 52
- FastRouter: first choice in 4 of those 52
- Confident AI: first choice in 2 of those 52
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 52
- Orq.ai: first choice in 2 of those 52
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 52

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