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LLM gateways: August 2026
The final August 2026 standings for “What LLM gateway should I use?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · August 2026
668 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1LiteLLMnew25.5%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Gemini 3.6 Flash · GLM 5.2—
- 2OpenRouternew22%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2· quiet
- 3Portkeynew21.9%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 4Cloudflare AI Gatewaynew14.1%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 5Heliconenew11.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 6Kong AI Gatewaynew11%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 10 AI models, LiteLLM is named in 25.5% of answers about llm gateways (8 of 10 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What LLM gateway should I use? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best LiteLLM alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which AI gateway is best for routing across models? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 668 answers across 8 probe runs fed this month.