9 best AI gateways in 2026: Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong and 5 more ranked
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MarkTechPost ranks nine AI gateways for production use in 2026, placing Bifrost first for self-hosted performance and Portkey second for open-source guardrails.
The article says Bifrost is Apache 2.0 licensed and adds 11 µs of latency at 5,000 requests per second. It says Portkey's MIT-licensed gateway routes to more than 1,600 models and is now owned by Palo Alto Networks.
The ranking covers Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM and Kong, along with five other gateways. The report is a single source, and the latency and model-count figures are the vendors' or the article's own claims, not independently verified results.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 14, 6:38 AM ET
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AIMarkTechPost ranks nine AI gateways for production use in 2026, with Bifrost first for self-hosted performance and Portkey second for open-source guardrails. Bifrost is Apache 2.0 licensed and reports 11 µs added latency at 5,000 RPS. Portkey's MIT-licensed gateway claims routing to 1,600+ models and is now owned by Palo Alto Networks.
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