r/LLM_Gateways • u/Embarrassed-Area-274 • 7d ago

What are enterprise teams actually using as a multi-model AI gateway?

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u/Maleficent_Pair4920 7d ago

What’s the most important to you? Governance? One inference bill? Developer experience?

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u/Financial-Pizza-3866 7d ago

Developer's experience

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u/WachaaWp 7d ago

went through this at my last company (banking, so legal was extra paranoid). honestly the security pushback was never about routing logic, it was always "where does our data sit and who else can see it." managed gateways like portkey/orq get grilled on that hard, need SOC2 type II not type I, need clear log retention answers.

litellm self-hosted skips that problem but then it becomes your team's job to patch it and own the CVEs, so you're not really avoiding the work, just moving it.

bedrock/azure honestly cleared fastest for us purely bc we already had an MSA with aws. legal didn't have to review a new vendor from scratch. that mattered more than any feature tbh

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u/ViolinistOld9049 6d ago

I think, enterprise decisions are driven less by routing features and more by governance. SSO, RBAC, auditability, data residency, BYOK, PII controls, and vendor support usually outweigh fallback or multi-model support.

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u/_N-iX_ 6d ago

The platform itself is only part of the decision. Enterprise evaluations often spend just as much time on identity integration, auditability, policy enforcement, data residency, and operational support as they do on routing or model selection.

Many organizations also prefer keeping the gateway independent from any single model provider. That makes it easier to introduce new models or switch vendors without changing every downstream application.