Duel-Agents vs gateway
gateway is much bigger: 13.3k stars against 734. Over the days we have tracked them Duel-Agents moved -15.9% and gateway +5.3%, so gateway is growing faster right now.
gateway leads on noise control and customization and privacy and model freedom and setup ease. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
An IDE-native routing layer that runs prompts across multiple models and picks the cheapest answer that still wins.
- Stars
- 734
- Tracked growth
- -15.9%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 121d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription)
A tiny, high-performance LLM gateway that routes to 1,600+ models while providing built-in guardrails, retries, and load‑balancing.
- Stars
- 13.3k
- Tracked growth
- +5.3%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 156d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Uses your provider API keys; self-hosted or hosted enterprise plans.
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | Duel-Agents | gateway |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff/file only | ●●●●● Diff only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● No noise controls | ●●●●● Guardrails & filters |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Env/config options | ●●●●● Custom rules & prompts |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Third-party cloud | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Single provider | ●●●●● Bring-your-own keys |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● API key + install | ●●●●● One-command start |
Which one to pick
Pick Duel-Agents if…
Cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Pick gateway if…
Easy setup — Run a lightweight, self-hostable gateway in one command that centralizes routing, guardrails, and provider flexibility.
- Noise control: Guardrails & filters (4/5 against 1/5)
- Customization: Custom rules & prompts (5/5 against 3/5)
- Privacy: Self-hostable (4/5 against 1/5)
- Model freedom: Bring-your-own keys (5/5 against 1/5)
- Setup ease: One-command start (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
2aronS/Duel-Agents
Portkey-AI/gateway
Questions people ask
Is Duel-Agents better than gateway?
gateway leads on noise control and customization and privacy and model freedom and setup ease. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin. Duel-Agents is worth picking when cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Which of Duel-Agents and gateway keeps my code private?
Duel-Agents: Third-party cloud (1/5). gateway: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
Duel-Agents: Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription). gateway: Uses your provider API keys; self-hosted or hosted enterprise plans..
Full profiles: 2aronS/Duel-Agents and Portkey-AI/gateway. Everything else in Gateways & routing.