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Where each of these stops.

These are good products. Each one solves a slice of the same problem deliberately well, and for plenty of teams a slice is all that is needed — every page below says plainly when that team is you.

What INFRO is betting on is that the slices belong together: the request that gets routed is the request that gets traced, priced, and checked against your organization's policy, and splitting that across three vendors is what creates the gaps.

Our reading of each product's public documentation as of October 2026. We do not quote competitors' prices — theirs change and a wrong number about someone else's business is worse than none. Think a row is wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

Where the differences actually are.

Most of these products route, log and track cost, and several work with your own provider keys. What separates them is who holds the provider account, what the entry plan includes, and what is not built yet. Our reading of each product's public documentation — tell us where we have read it wrong and we will fix the row.

ProductCost ownershipCost attributionGovernance on entry planRuntime AI security
Cloudflare AI Gatewayyour own keys, or their creditsYesmetadata and identityYesPartialgateway-scoped; account rolesguardrails and DLPYes
OpenRouterPartialcredits by default; BYOK with a feePartialworkspace, member and key budgetsYesNo
Heliconemaintenance mode; signups closedyour own accountsYesby user and custom propertiesYesPartialNo
Portkey / Prisma AIRSyour own accountsYesby metadataYesPartialtheir specialismYes
RequestyPartialmarkup on model costs; BYOK availablePartialPartialNo
INFRO0% of model spendYesproject, key, end userYesbudgets, allowlists, audit on every plan; SSO from BusinessYesPartialpattern and classifier guardrails, Business plan

Our reading of each product's public documentation, October 13, 2026. We do not quote competitors' prices — theirs change and a wrong number about someone else's business is worse than none. Helicone has been in maintenance mode under Mintlify since March 2026 and is closed to new customers; it stays in the table because the teams already on it are the ones most likely to be reading this. INFRO's row describes its first release, and INFRO is in private early access. Think a mark is wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

What INFRO covers, stage by stage.

Six things a production team needs around its model calls, and what INFRO does for each today.

  1. 01Connect

    The provider accounts you already hold, behind one OpenAI-compatible API and scoped gateway keys.

  2. 02Route

    A route orders or weights its targets; when one times out or errors before the response starts, the next healthy target serves it.

  3. 03Observe

    Every request keeps its provider, connection, attempts, latency, tokens and estimated provider cost, by project and key.

  4. 04Optimize

    Estimated spend at the vendor's list rate or your negotiated rate, with budgets that alert or refuse requests past the limit.

  5. 05Govern

    Roles, model allowlists and an audit log of who changed a key, a policy or a member.

  6. 06Scale

    Projects and seats across teams, single sign-on and directory provisioning from the Business plan, and an enterprise agreement when you need one.

In INFRO these are one request record: the request that gets routed is the one that gets traced, priced and checked against policy, so there is no second system to reconcile it with.