9 Best AI Gateways in 2026: Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong and 5 More Ranked
MarkTechPost ranks nine 2026 AI gateways, placing self-hosted Bifrost first and noting Portkey's Palo Alto deal.
MarkTechPost ranks nine AI gateways for 2026, defining a gateway as a control layer for multi-model routing, retries, failover, caching, budgets, and logs. Bifrost, an Apache 2.0 Go project from Maxim AI, is ranked first with a published 11-microsecond overhead at 5,000 requests per second. Portkey, claiming 1,600-plus models and built-in guardrails, is now owned by Palo Alto Networks after a May 29 acquisition and is being folded into Prisma AIRS. LiteLLM has 53.8K GitHub stars and 100-plus providers; the piece also notes its March PyPI supply-chain compromise and Mintlify's acquisition of Helicone.
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