What it sells
Call every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs]
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
Platform teams / AI platform leads (the site headlines "The AI Gateway for platform teams"); enterprise buyers via sales.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Need one key across 100+ LLMs with spend tracking, budgets and governance; named customers include NVIDIA, Lemonade and AT&T (cut coding costs 56%).
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Route all LLM, MCP and agent calls through a self-hosted gateway with virtual keys, budgets, rate limits, fallbacks, logging and spend by key/user/team.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Open-core: free self-hosted gateway, Enterprise license sized to annual gateway request capacity and deployment, never per token.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Open-source self-serve (58.8k GitHub stars) with upsell to Enterprise via "Talk to sales".
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2023 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.