How to choose an AI gateway

Every model request passes through the gateway, so access, cost, guardrails and logs live there. The right one depends less on features than on the platforms you already run.

Start from your platforms

• Databricks: Unity Gateway, inside Unity Catalog.
• Snowflake: Cortex, next to governed data.
• AWS: Bedrock, with IAM-native access control.
• Mixed or self-hosted: Kong, LiteLLM or TrueFoundry, above any provider.

Six questions that separate them

• Where does it run: SaaS, self-hosted or your cloud?
• Which providers and self-hosted models does it cover?
• Can every request carry team, app and user?
• How deep are the guardrails?
• Does telemetry reach the monitoring you run?
• How portable are routes, policies and budgets?

Order matters more than choice

A well-governed gateway beats a stronger one left ungoverned. Get observability first, then attribution, then policy.

All thirty gateways are scored in the comparison at goverent.com/gateways.