nRouter
nRouter is a purpose-built LLM gateway for teams evaluating a Kong AI Gateway alternative. Where Kong composes AI capabilities from plugins you configure and operate — a per-provider ai-proxy config, a plugin chain whose order you own, a Redis for advanced rate-limit counters, provider keys inside your gateway config — nRouter provides the LLM slice as a managed endpoint: one OpenAI-compatible base URL, virtual keys you mint and revoke per caller, guardrails and budgets on every plan, and settled per-call cost returned on the response. The honest limits are stated too: LLM traffic only, no equivalent for Kong's semantic cache, RAG injector, or LLM-as-judge plugins, and no customer-operated deployment topology — many teams run both, Kong in front and nRouter behind it for the LLM slice. Full comparison: https://nrouter.ai/blog/product/kong-ai-gateway-alternative Smart routing: nRouter's guide to cutting AI costs without rewrites shows how the model choice moves out of code and into configuration. A router alias resolves each request to the cheapest qualifying model, the lowest-latency model, or a weighted split across a candidate set the team controls — changed in a dashboard, live in seconds, with concrete model IDs never re-routed. Every response reports the serving model and its settled cost, so savings are measured per successful request. Full guide: https://nrouter.ai/blog/product/reduce-ai-costs-smart-routing
Average Rating: 5.0/5.0
Total Reviews: 1
Who Is the Company Behind nRouter?
- Seller: CloudAct
- Year Founded: 2023
- HQ Location: Sunnyvale, US
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LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
10 employees on LinkedIn®
Who Uses This Product?
- Company Size: 100% Small
What Are Recent G2 Reviews of nRouter?
"LLM gateway with real guardrails — not a paid-tier upsell"
Rating: 5.0/5.0 stars
— nRouter S.

