Cassava CAIMEx vs OpenRouter vs LiteLLM vs Together AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cassava CAIMEx
One API across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, hosted in Africa
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LIT LiteLLM Open-source AI gateway: one OpenAI-format API for 100+ LLM providers Visit |
Together AI
High-performance inference for open-weights LLMs
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | — | — | Full open-source proxy + SDK, free to self-host (MIT outside the enterprise/ directory) | — |
| Paid from | — | — | Custom (LiteLLM Enterprise — contact sales; 30-day evaluation key) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
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| Founded | — | — | — | 2022 |
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| Verdict | CAIMEx is less a product you sign up for than infrastructure Cassava is building to solve a real problem: African mobile operators and enterprises wanting access to OpenAI-, Anthropic- and Google-class models without rou... |
OpenRouter solved a real headache: instead of holding a dozen provider keys and reconciling a dozen invoices, you point one OpenAI-compatible endpoint at around 400 models and get automatic fallback when a provider choke... |
What this is for: putting one OpenAI-format API in front of every model provider you use. LiteLLM ships as a Python SDK (litellm.completion) and a proxy/gateway server that adds virtual API keys, per-team budgets, rate l... |
Together AI is a developer-focused cloud for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source models (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, and many more) with an OpenAI-compatible API, competitive pricing, and strong inference per... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.