The original title is "AI Gateway Fees Compared: Who Marks Up Your Tokens?"

Short summary

This guide compares 2026 pricing across major AI gateways (LLM Gateway, OpenRouter, Vercel, Cloudflare, Eden AI, Portkey, LiteLLM), finding none charge token markups — competition has shifted to platform fees, BYOK terms, and self-hosting options. Hidden costs like payment-processing minimums, log-retention tiers, and self-host infrastructure can dominate small or high-volume workloads. The cheapest paths are BYOK or self-hosting an open-source gateway, though the article is notably biased toward LLM Gateway.

• •No major AI gateway marks up tokens in 2026; competition is on platform fees and BYOK terms
• •Hidden costs include payment-processing minimums, log-retention billing, and self-host infrastructure
• •BYOK or self-hosting eliminates platform fees entirely, but the article heavily promotes LLM Gateway

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.