When you need an Agent Gateway, not just another LLM proxy

When you need an Agent Gateway, not just another LLM proxy

If your problem is "one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for 50 providers," a proxy like LiteLLM is usually the right default. Huge catalog, huge community, good enough ops for most teams.

If your problem is "agents that call tools (MCP) with the same identity, audit, budgets, and policy as model calls," a thinner Agent Gateway starts to matter — one control plane so auth doesn't drift between chat completions and tool traffic.

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