Marketplace
OpenRouter
40+ providers, 5.5% credit markup. Broad catalog, no learning.
BR adds: learned routing, agent identity, persistent memory, zero markup.
Compare
Not just another proxy.
BrainstormRouter is the control plane for routing, identity, governance, and memory. Here's how it compares against the nearest marketplace, platform, and security comparators — feature by feature.
Positioning
Three shapes of competitor.
Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (Apr 2026)
Portkey
200+ providers, MCP gateway, static routing rules. Now absorbed into Prisma AIRS as PAN's AI security control plane.
BR adds: Thompson sampling, CAF identity, RMM memory, counterfactual receipts — and remains independent of any security vendor or hyperscaler.
Security
Lasso
Open-source MCP gateway with intent-security focus.
BR adds: full routing + identity + cost layer on top of the security primitives.
Capability matrix
Six things only BR has.
01
Closed-loop learned routing
Thompson sampling learns task-specific model performance. 13 intelligence systems adapt on every request. Competitors use static configs or manual rules.
02
Cryptographic agent identity
EdDSA-signed Trust Envelopes (per-request) plus 5-minute ephemeral mTLS certs from the Cryptographic Agent Framework. No other AI gateway ships either primitive.
03
Agent governance (ARM)
Virtual corporate cards for agents. Per-agent budgets, auto-downgrade, 5-state lifecycle, leaderboard.
04
Token-level stream interception
7-check firewall intercepts model output token-by-token. PII severed before delivery. Competitors log after the fact.
05
Relational memory (RMM)
Persists agent state across sessions, crashes, deployments. Four-block architecture. Competitors treat requests as stateless.
06
Counterfactual cost proof
Shadow comparator records what static routing would have spent. Every response ships with X-BR-Routing-Savings.
Try it yourself
See the difference in your first 100 requests.
Drop-in replacement. Same API. Better routing, caching, and cost visibility from request one.