unified AI model API gateways
Recent window: last 5.1 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-27), compared with the prior 5.1 months.
These products provide unified APIs, routing, and proxies that allow developers to access multiple large language and multimodal models through a single interface. They are primarily purchased and integrated by software engineers and AI builders seeking simplified billing, low-latency inference, and model fallback capabilities. Unlike standalone model providers or internal eval platforms, this cluster focuses on serving as the middleware routing layer across competing AI model providers.
Metrics
- Stage
- heating
- Recent count
- 72
- Prior count
- 2
- Total count
- 82
- Momentum
- 300.00
- Attention
- 0.78
- Crowding
- 0.36
- Concentration
- 0.85
- Opportunity
- 0.64
Opportunity components
- Attention
- 0.78
- Low crowding
- 0.64
- Momentum (normalized)
- 1.00
- Low concentration
- 0.15
Monthly trajectory
Source split
- github
- 34 (0.47)
- hn
- 4 (0.06)
- ph
- 34 (0.47)
- yc
- 0 (0.00)
Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.47
Similar themes
- unified AI model API gateways (0.93)
- OpenAI-compatible AI API gateways (0.66)
- open model tooling and ComfyUI extensions (0.65)
- generative video and image API gateways (0.64)
- generative AI model API gateways (0.58)
- AI API proxies and developer tools (0.56)
- Grok APIs and developer tooling (0.49)
- image generation API gateways and proxies (0.48)
Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▼ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌿 Fiber AI – Freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products. | YC | 1049 | 2026-01-19 |
| Respan Gateway | PH | 356 | 2026-06-11 |
| ngrok AI Gateway | PH | 304 | 2026-08-05 |
| Pond | PH | 266 | 2026-06-12 |
| UnitPay | PH | 165 | 2026-07-13 |
| Milliseconds.ai | PH | 75 | 2026-09-21 |
| seedance-api-cn | GITHUB | 72 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-image-api-fr | GITHUB | 68 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-proxy | GITHUB | 68 | 2026-09-24 |
| skyreels4-skyreels-v4-api | GITHUB | 68 | 2026-09-24 |
| pixverse6-pixverse-v6-api | GITHUB | 67 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-relay-cn | GITHUB | 67 | 2026-09-24 |
| video-api-gateway | GITHUB | 67 | 2026-09-24 |
| 2BA.AI | PH | 67 | 2026-09-22 |
| ai-api-gateway-fr | GITHUB | 67 | 2026-09-24 |
| nano-banana-api-cn | GITHUB | 66 | 2026-09-24 |
| zimage-z-image-turbo-api | GITHUB | 65 | 2026-09-24 |
| aiapi-gateway-pricing | GITHUB | 65 | 2026-09-24 |
| image-api-gateway | GITHUB | 65 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-pricing-fr | GITHUB | 64 | 2026-09-24 |
| llm-api-gateway-cn | GITHUB | 64 | 2026-09-24 |
| image-api-gateway-cn | GITHUB | 62 | 2026-09-24 |
| unified-ai-api | GITHUB | 62 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-video-api-fr | GITHUB | 60 | 2026-09-24 |
| openrouter-alternatives | GITHUB | 60 | 2026-09-17 |
| video-api-gateway-cn | GITHUB | 59 | 2026-09-24 |
| openai-compatible-api | GITHUB | 58 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-gateway-cn | GITHUB | 56 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-pricing-cn | GITHUB | 56 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-aggregator-cn | GITHUB | 55 | 2026-09-24 |
| openrouter-alternative-fr | GITHUB | 55 | 2026-09-24 |
| midjourney-api-pricing | GITHUB | 55 | 2026-09-18 |
| llm-api-gateway-fr | GITHUB | 54 | 2026-09-24 |
| gpt-image-api-cn | GITHUB | 54 | 2026-09-24 |
| openai-compatible-cn | GITHUB | 53 | 2026-09-24 |
| cheap-llm-api-cn | GITHUB | 52 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-relay-pricing | GITHUB | 52 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-relay | GITHUB | 52 | 2026-09-24 |
| ai-api-pricing-comparison | GITHUB | 50 | 2026-09-16 |
| openai-compatible-proxy | GITHUB | 50 | 2026-09-24 |
| Agnes AI | HN | 10 | 2026-06-24 |
| devin2api | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-09-12 |
| Underpriced AI | HN | 10 | 2026-01-03 |
| EnConvert | PH | 8 | 2026-09-22 |
| Aurora | HN | 7 | 2026-08-01 |
| Infer0 | HN | 6 | 2026-06-16 |
| Marginal | HN | 5 | 2026-08-19 |
| Talos by FACTA.dev | PH | 3 | 2026-09-30 |
| Stali API | PH | 3 | 2026-09-23 |
| AIWatermark: C2PA Conformant | PH | 3 | 2026-09-23 |