Skip to main content

AnchorShell Relay vs OpenLIT

A side-by-side comparison built from both listings. Blank cells mean the company has not given that detail; we never guess.

AnchorShell Relay compared with OpenLIT
DetailAnchorShell Relay logo AnchorShell RelayOpenLIT logo OpenLIT
What it doesSmart AI routing gateway for LLM traffic management Open-source agent harness engineering platform built on OpenTelemetry
StageNot given Startup
FoundedNot given 2024
Based inNot given IN
Pricing modelFreemium Open source
PricingSelf-hosted: Free. Free Hosted: $0/month (10,000 routed requests/month, 2 concurrent requests). Personal: $9/month ($9 billed monthly; 300,000 routed requests/month, 10 concurrent requests). Team: $49/month ($49 billed monthly; 3,000,000 routed requests/month, 100 concurrent requests; 10 people incl Open source (Apache 2.0): Free self-hosted with unlimited usage. Enterprise Edition: Contact sales for pricing. Cloud: Coming soon.
Key features
  • Request characterization and intent detection
  • Smart Groups and model assignment
  • Queue-first routing with fallbacks
  • Per-user and per-API-key limits
  • Pre and post-dispatch guardrails
  • Real-time request tracing and analytics
  • 100,000+ model compatibility
  • OpenAI-compatible API
  • Request queuing, pacing and cooldowns
  • Provider cost tracking per request
  • OpenTelemetry-native LLM tracing for every call, tool, and retrieval
  • Agent evals with LLM-as-a-judge and heuristics
  • Prompt Hub for versioning and deployment without code changes
  • Guardrails for prompt injection, jailbreak, and sensitive topic detection
  • Vault for encrypted API key management
  • OpenGround for side-by-side LLM model comparison
  • GPU monitoring for utilization, memory, temperature, and power
  • Coding agent observability for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor
  • Cost tracking and latency monitoring
  • 56+ integrations with LLMs, frameworks, and vector databases
What makes it different
  • Route requests based on intent to optimize cost and latency without sending all work to expensive models
  • Real-time visibility into every LLM request, decision, guardrail, and cost in one trace
  • Enforce per-user, per-agent and organization-wide limits with attribution and audit trails
  • Available as fully self-hosted open-source or managed cloud platform
  • Fast built-in routing at 1-5ms latency or optional System One classifier for richer decisions
  • Self-host free forever under Apache 2.0 with unlimited usage and no per-trace fees
  • OpenTelemetry-native traces exportable to Grafana, Datadog, or any OTLP backend
  • Zero-code instrumentation with eBPF controller, native SDKs, or GPU collector
  • Unified platform for traces, evals, guardrails, and prompts on the same production data
  • Full data ownership and no vendor lock-in with exportable OpenTelemetry traces
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet no change since last check65 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)1723
Citation Flow (Majestic)2239
Referring domains (Majestic)48483

5 details filled in for both companies.

More alternatives to AnchorShell Relay More alternatives to OpenLIT

Help centre