How route-switch compares
The LLM-gateway space is crowded. These are grounded comparisons against the tools teams actually evaluate route-switch against — written from public docs and the source tree.
route-switch vs. OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a hosted LLM aggregator with a unified API across 200+ models. Route-Switch is a self-hosted Go gateway with prompt optimization. They overlap in 'one endpoint for many models' and diverge in almost everything else.
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route-switch vs. Portkey
Portkey is an AI gateway with strong observability, guardrails, and a prompt library. Route-Switch is a Go gateway whose distinguishing feature is closed-loop MIPROv2 prompt optimization. The overlap is real; the focus is different.
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