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OpenRouter vs. Cloudflare AI Gateway vs. Portkey vs. LiteLLM vs. Helicone in 2026: The 5.5% Token Top-Up Tax vs. Request Logging Traps

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Most AI SaaS teams route production traffic through an LLM gateway for automatic multi-provider failover, unified observability, and prompt caching without calculating whether they are paying a percentage of total token spend or a per-request logging fee . At $10,000/month in LLM token spend across…

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  1. 2026-10-18 17:35 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenRouter vs. Cloudflare AI Gateway vs. Portkey vs. LiteLLM vs. Helicone in 2026: The 5.5% Token Top-Up Tax vs. Request Logging Traps

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