Freemium

Respan

One endpoint to 1,000 models, with tracing, evaluation and alerting behind it.

4.1 Very good 4.1
Automatic fallback keeps an app up through a provider outage No published pricing tiers for production volume
Reviewed by Challenging Voice Editorial · Updated Aug 2026 How we rate
PricingFree
Free planYes
CompanyKeywords AI, Inc.
PlatformsAPI, Web
CategoryAI Infrastructure & Agent Tooling
Last reviewedAug 2026
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Overview

Respan is LLM infrastructure from Keywords AI. A gateway routes traffic through a single endpoint to more than a thousand models with automatic fallbacks and response caching, observability traces every call, tool run and agent action with latency, cost and token detail, and evaluations score outputs with LLM judges, deterministic checks or human review.

Automatic fallback is the unglamorous feature that earns its keep. Model providers have outages, rate limits arrive without warning, and an application whose only route to a model is one provider’s endpoint fails whenever that provider does. Rerouting mid-incident is the difference between degraded and down.

The Y Combinator company reports more than 80 trillion tokens processed. It starts free with no published tiers, so cost at production volume is unknown until you ask. A gateway is another hop in the request path and its own dependency, and LLM-judge evaluation inherits the judgement of the model doing the judging.

Key features

  • Single gateway endpoint to 1,000-plus models
  • Automatic fallbacks and response caching
  • Tracing of every call, tool run and agent action
  • Evaluations by LLM judge, deterministic check or human review
  • Cost, latency and token monitoring with alerts

Screenshots & demo

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Pricing

Respan offers a free plan, with paid upgrades for higher limits and more features.

  • Pricing modelFreemium
  • Starting priceFree
  • Free planYes
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Pricing is provided as a guide. Check the official site for the latest plans.

Is Respan expensive?

Respan has no advertised paid tier. Among the 70 priced tools we list in AI Infrastructure & Agent Tooling, the median entry price is $29 a month.

54% of AI Infrastructure & Agent Tooling tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.

Compared against every priced listing in AI Infrastructure & Agent Tooling, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Automatic fallback keeps an app up through a provider outage
  • Routing, tracing and evaluation in one layer rather than three
  • Free to start

Cons

  • No published pricing tiers for production volume
  • A gateway adds a hop and a dependency to every request
  • LLM-judge evaluation inherits the judging model's biases

How it compares

ToolRatingFreeFromBest known for
Respan (this tool)4.1YesFreeSingle gateway endpoint to 1,000-plus models
Requesty3.9YesFreeRoutes across 30+ providers and 600+ models
Vynaris3.5No$45/moDrop-in gateway compatible with the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
Braintrust4.2Yes$249/moEvaluation-first platform, not just logging and tracing after the fact

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Frequently asked questions

What is Respan?
Respan is LLM infrastructure from Keywords AI.
Is Respan free?
Yes, Respan offers a free plan. Paid plans unlock more features and higher usage limits.
What are the best Respan alternatives?
The closest matches in the directory are Requesty, Vynaris, and Braintrust, compared side by side above.

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