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AI Gateways: Lunar.dev, Portkey, TrueFoundry Compared

An AI gateway acts as middleware, centralizing routing, security, and observability for AI applications interacting with various models and tools. Key features to consider include governance scope, security controls, observability, access control, and deployment options. Lunar.dev is highlighted for its unified control plane covering model calls, MCP tool calls, and API traffic, with a self-hosted option and an open-source MCP Gateway core. Portkey offers broad model support and built-in guardrails, including a hosted option, though its MCP support is a secondary feature. TrueFoundry emphasizes performance with low latency and flexible deployment, suitable for regulated industries. AI

IMPACT Provides insight into infrastructure choices for managing AI application complexity and costs.

RANK_REASON The article discusses middleware products for AI applications, not a core AI model release or research.

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