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OpenRouter vs Kong AI Gateway

Fees, free tiers and features, from each gateway's own pages.

Markup on tokens
5.5%
0%
Bring your own key
Yes, 5% fee
No
Free tier
Free plan: 25+ free models, 4 free providers; 50 free-model requests per day without purchased credits, 1000 per day with at least $10 in credits
30-day free trial with Enterprise functionality, $0, no credit card
Entry paid plan
Standard (pay-as-you-go)
Konnect Plus, $100/mo
Self-host
No
Yes
Open source
No
No
Fallbacks
Load balancing
Caching
Guardrails
Observability
Rate limits
Budgets
Prompts
OpenAI-compatible
Bring your own key
Data residency
Private networking

Monthly cost, 100M in and 20M out

  • Claude Sonnet 5$422.00$400.00
  • GPT-6 Sol$422.00$400.00
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash$158.25$150.00
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$28.48$27.00

Pricing as read from each gateway's own pages on the date shown; your contract may differ. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

Weekly: LLM API list prices that changed, Thursday mornings.