Top Model Routers and AI Gateways
Scoring rubric 10 equally weighted criteria · 100 points
Pricing transparency, accessible entry point, and controls that reduce total inference spend.
Breadth of supported model vendors, endpoints, formats, and deployment options.
Fallbacks, load balancing, policy routing, semantic routing, and intelligent model selection.
Session affinity, persistent routing, context reuse, caching, or conversation-level optimization.
Explicit optimization across competing objectives such as quality, cost, and latency.
Documented retention choices, redaction, regional or provider policies, and protections for sensitive data.
Native or integrated moderation, prompt protection, content filtering, and policy enforcement.
Published operational evidence, high-availability design, SLAs, status visibility, and track record.
Documentation, community access, responsive support, and paid enterprise support.
Product completeness, adoption, governance, integrations, and production history.
Scores reflect publicly documented capabilities and operational evidence verified August 8, 2026. Undocumented capabilities receive limited or no credit. Controls scores measure documented product features, not whether a provider is safe or secure overall.