Higress

Higress is a production-grade AI gateway that serves as a unified proxy for managing access to multiple large language models and AI services. It provides a single interface to connect to over 100 different AI models including OpenAI, Claude, and various Chinese LLMs, handling protocol conversion and routing requests to the appropriate backend services. This eliminates the complexity of managing multiple API connections and ensures consistent access patterns across different AI providers.

What makes Higress stand out are its specialized features tailored for AI workloads. It includes semantic caching that recognizes similar queries to reduce redundant API calls and token usage, token management for tracking and controlling usage costs, and robust security features for data protection. The platform supports model-level fallback capabilities and provides detailed analytics on AI service consumption. It comes in both open-source and commercial cloud-hosted versions, with the enterprise edition offering 99.95% SLA guarantees and performance optimizations that can reduce resource costs by up to 50%.

Higress primarily benefits enterprise teams building AI applications at scale, particularly those working with AI agents or needing to manage multiple model providers. Companies like Soul, Kuaishou, and Geely Auto use Higress to streamline their AI infrastructure. It's especially valuable for organizations that need production-ready reliability, cost control mechanisms for AI API usage, and unified management of diverse AI services across their applications.