Kamya Shah

An AI gateway is the single entry point that routes, governs, and secures every LLM, MCP, and coding agent request in an enterprise. This guide covers core capabilities, how to evaluate vendors, deployment steps, and the cluster architecture large teams run.

agentgateway is an open-source Linux Foundation data plane for LLM, MCP, and A2A traffic. This guide compares five alternatives, including Bifrost, Kong AI Gateway, Agent Router, LiteLLM, and IBM ContextForge, on governance, protocol coverage, performance, and deployment.

Compare five Docker MCP Gateway alternatives for production teams in 2026 on identity, per-user credentials, tool-level access control, and deployment.

Compare the top LLM gateway options for self-hosted vLLM, SGLang, and Ollama models on replica load balancing, cloud failover, hybrid routing, and governance.

Compare the top LLM gateway options with built-in PII filtering in 2026 on detection engines, redaction modes, response scanning, and deployment.

Compare the top AI gateways for data residency in 2026 on in-region routing, self-hosting, log storage, and multi-region deployment for GDPR-bound LLM traffic.