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Which gateways overlap, and which are cheaper

How much of each gateway's catalog you would still have on another one, which models only one gateway carries, and — where both publish a price for the same model — which is cheaper more often.

Shared catalog

Each cell is the number of models both gateways carry. The diagonal is the gateway's own catalog size, not an overlap.

GatewayOpenRouterVercelCloudflareOrcaRouterRequestyConcentrateLLM Gateway
OpenRouter 43014141610611801
Vercel AI Gateway 141372189889850
Cloudflare AI Gateway 4161891,82813617001
OrcaRouter 106881361957000
Requesty 118981707055800
Concentrate 050002210
LLM Gateway 101001022

Two gateways can carry the same model under different ids — Concentrate and LLM Gateway publish bare ids, which only align to the canonical form when the match is unambiguous. Where alignment is uncertain the model is counted separately, so these numbers are a floor rather than a ceiling.

Price head-to-head

Counted only where both gateways carry the model and both publish an input price. Ties are common: gateways often pass a provider's price through unchanged, and that is itself the finding.

Pair Shared Both priced First cheaper Second cheaper Same price Verdict
OpenRouter vs Vercel AI Gateway 141 138 30 7 101 OpenRouter cheaper more often
OpenRouter vs Requesty 118 118 36 9 73 OpenRouter cheaper more often
OpenRouter vs OrcaRouter 106 104 23 14 67 OpenRouter cheaper more often
Vercel AI Gateway vs Requesty 98 95 14 7 74 Vercel AI Gateway cheaper more often
Vercel AI Gateway vs OrcaRouter 88 85 11 5 69 Vercel AI Gateway cheaper more often
OrcaRouter vs Requesty 70 70 13 7 50 OrcaRouter cheaper more often

Pairs that cannot be compared on price

These pairs share models, but at least one of them publishes no price for any of them — so there is nothing to compare. An absent price is not a cheap one.

Models only one gateway carries

The part of a gateway's catalog you would lose entirely by leaving it. This is the real switching cost, and it is very unevenly distributed.

Cloudflare's figure is dominated by its Workers AI catalog — largely image, video, and embedding models that no other tracked gateway resells.