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Introducing Respan Router

Respan LLM Gateway: Routing, Observability & Evals

Founded 2024|San Francisco, California|1-10 people|Freemium

What is Respan?

Key features

Core capabilities this platform advertises.

  • One API for 1,000+ models
  • Automatic fallbacks and retries
  • Load balancing across providers and models
  • Exact-match caching with configurable TTL
  • Hard spend limits per key, per customer, or org-wide
  • Task-aware model routing with Respan Router (beta)
  • Tracing, evals, and prompt management on every routed request

Strengths and tradeoffs

What this tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.

Pros

  • Gateway, tracing, and evals in one platform, so every metric ties back to the request behind it
  • 1,000+ models through one OpenAI-compatible API
  • No processing fee on Respan credits, and provider discounts are passed straight through
  • Hard spend caps that block requests, not just alert
  • Unlimited seats on the free plan
  • SOC 2, HIPAA with a BAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001

Cons

  • Additional latency (30-40ms) from routing through a gateway layer
  • Newer platform with smaller community compared to established tools
  • Some advanced provider-specific features may not be fully supported

Plans & pricing

What's included in each plan, and how the tiers compare.

Free

$0

 

  • 100k logs per month
  • 1k scores, 2 evaluators, 5 datasets, 5 prompts
  • Unlimited seats
  • Full gateway with fallbacks, caching, and spend limits

Team

$199/month

Monthly

  • Unlimited datasets, evaluators, and prompts
  • 10k scores, then $1 per 1k
  • 100k logs, then $8 per 100k
  • 30-day retention
  • 5 members included, then $15 per member
  • 99.9% uptime SLA, private Slack channel, SOC 2 report

Enterprise

Custom

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  • Custom packages and volume discounts
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
  • Dedicated support
  • SSO and RBAC
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Common use cases

AI engineering teams building production LLM applications who need unified access, observability, and cost control

  • Keeping agents online through provider outages and rate limits
  • Controlling LLM spend per customer or API key
  • Switching models without code changes
  • Scoring output quality on live production traffic
  • Replacing a separate gateway, logging tool, and eval tool with one platform

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Last verified: February 28, 2026