Router
Provider 
Founded 2026
Sells To Developer, Enterprises
Pricing Model Usage-based
Ownership Venture-backed private company

Router is Conifer's routing decision leased on its own to harnesses and companies.
Router is the routing decision offered on its own rather than bundled with the gateway. A team that builds a coding agent or runs a large volume of AI leases the decision and serves the request on its own keys, with the call going straight to the lab through the customer's own stack.
The POST /v1/route endpoint returns a pick and up to three fallbacks and then steps aside. Auto and balanced choose the best value among the models that will answer well, best chooses the most capable model regardless of cost, and a named model is always served as that model with nothing substituted behind an identifier the customer chose.
| Attribute | Router | LiteLLM — Open-Source LLM Gateway | LLM Gateway and Observability | OpenRouter — Unified LLM API Gateway | Requesty — AI Gateway | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||||||
| Founded | 2026 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | |
| Sells To | Developer, Enterprises | Enterprise, Small Business | Enterprise | Developer | — | |
| Pricing Model | Usage-based | Recurring, Software | Recurring, SaaS | Usage-based | — | |
| Ownership | Venture-backed private company | Open-Source, Venture Capital | Venture Capital | Venture-backed private company | — |
Provider 
Founded 2026
Sells To Developer, Enterprises
Pricing Model Usage-based
Ownership Venture-backed private company
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprise, Small Business
Pricing Model Recurring, Software
Ownership Open-Source, Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, SaaS
Ownership Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Developer
Pricing Model Usage-based
Ownership Venture-backed private company
Provider 
Founded 2023
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Pricing Model —
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IonRouter
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