Best New API Alternatives

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LiteLLM

82/100open sourceexplicit relation

Drop-in OpenAI-compatible proxy supporting 100+ LLM providers with load balancing, spend tracking, rate limiting, and fallback routing. Acts as a unified gateway for all your AI model calls, letting teams switch between providers, enforce budgets, and add reliability layers without changing application code. Essential infrastructure for multi-model AI architectures.

Free (open-source) / Enterprise availableReview →

One API

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One API is a self-hosted LLM API gateway that provides a unified OpenAI-compatible interface for managing multiple model providers including OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Google, and dozens of Chinese providers. It handles load balancing, quota management, rate limiting, token tracking, and channel-based routing through a web dashboard. Widely adopted in the Chinese developer ecosystem with over 18,000 GitHub stars.

Free and open source under MIT license

Open-source New API alternatives

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More AI Monitoring & Observability tools

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GrafanaGrafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability visualization. It connects to virtually any data source — Prometheus, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, Datadog, and 150+ others — to create beautiful, interactive dashboards. Used by millions of users at companies like Bloomberg, JPMorgan, eBay, and PayPal. Grafana Cloud offers a fully managed experience with generous free tier. The CNCF ecosystem standard for metrics visualization.DatadogDatadog is a cloud observability and security platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, RUM, synthetics, APM, and security signals. Current pricing pages list 1,000+ integrations for Infrastructure Monitoring, with Pro from $15/host/month and Enterprise from $23/host/month when billed annually.PostHogPostHog is an open-source product and data tools platform for analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, error tracking, web analytics, data warehouse, CDP and LLM observability workflows. It suits developer-led teams that want one integrated product OS instead of many separate tools.Arize PhoenixPhoenix by Arize is an open-source AI observability platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLM applications. It captures prompt-response pairs, retrieval context, agent tool calls, and latency data through OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation. Provides experiment tracking, dataset management, and evaluation frameworks for systematically improving AI application quality. 10K+ GitHub stars.LangfuseLangfuse is an open-source LLM engineering platform with 29K+ GitHub stars for tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI applications. Acquired by ClickHouse, it provides detailed traces of LLM calls, prompt management with versioning, dataset-based evaluation, user feedback collection, and cost tracking. Framework-agnostic with native integrations for LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, and Vercel AI SDK. Offers both self-hosted deployment and a managed cloud service.BraintrustBraintrust is an AI observability and evaluation platform for tracing LLM applications, building datasets, running prompt/model experiments, scoring outputs and turning production feedback into regression tests. It fits teams that need repeatable quality gates for AI releases rather than one-off prompt demos.SentrySentry is the leading error tracking and performance monitoring platform for developers. Captures and aggregates errors with full stack traces, breadcrumbs, and context across 100+ platforms. Used by over 100,000 organizations. Features session replay, performance tracing, and code-level profiling. A self-hosted deployment is available under FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0.PortkeyPortkey is an AI gateway and observability platform providing a unified API for 200+ LLM providers with intelligent routing, caching, rate limiting, and guardrails. Route requests across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more with automatic failover, load balancing, and cost optimization. Features request logging, prompt management, evaluation tools, and real-time monitoring. The open-source gateway can be self-hosted; Portkey Cloud adds managed observability and team features.PrometheusPrometheus is the open-source monitoring system and time-series database that has become the CNCF standard for metrics collection in cloud-native environments. Features a powerful query language (PromQL), pull-based metrics collection, multi-dimensional data model, and built-in alerting via Alertmanager. The foundation of modern Kubernetes observability.

FAQ

What is the best New API alternative?

LiteLLM tops our editor-verified list of 2 New API alternatives, scoring 82/100 in our hands-on review.

Are there open-source New API alternatives?

Yes — LiteLLM, One API are open source.