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LLM gateways: September 2026
The final September 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 · September 2026
530 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1LiteLLM▼ 25.20.3%GPT—
- 2OpenRouter▼ 21.70.3%GPT· quiet
- 3Portkey▼ 21.60.3%GPT—
- 4Cloudflare AI Gateway▼ 13.90.2%GPT—
- 5Helicone▼ 11.10.2%GPT—
- 6Kong AI Gateway▼ 110%not named this month—
Biggest mover: LiteLLM ▼ 25.2 pts vs the previous month
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 0.3% of answers about llm gateways (1 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; 530 answers across 4 probe runs fed this month.