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How Tempr compares, and where others fit better.

Tempr is the layer between your team and every AI it uses: your provider keys and the AI plans you already pay for behind one endpoint, with budgets, guardrails, logs and MCP governance on every request, plus Tempr's own coding agent. Here it is next to the AI gateways and the coding assistants teams most often weigh it against.

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AI gateways

Tempr next to Portkey, LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Cloudflare AI Gateway

All five put one endpoint in front of many models. They differ in whose keys and plans pay for each request, what the gateway itself costs, where it runs, and how much of your team's AI it governs.

Tempr compared with four AI gateways
Feature	TemprGateway and agents	PortkeyPrisma AIRS AI Gateway	LiteLLMOpen-source proxy	OpenRouterModel marketplace	Cloudflare AI GatewayOn Cloudflare's network
The basics
What it is	A hosted gateway for your keys and your AI plans, with Tempr's own coding agent	An AI gateway, now sold as Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS AI Gateway	An open-source gateway you run on your own servers	A hosted marketplace for hundreds of models, paid for with credits	A gateway on Cloudflare's network
What you pay for it	Free for 10,000 requests a month; Pro $49/mo; Scale $249/mo; Enterprise custom	Free for 10,000 logs a month; Production $49/mo for 100,000, then $9 per 100,000; Enterprise custom	Free to run yourself; Enterprise license priced by deployment size	A 5.5% fee when you buy credits (8% on Business)	Core features free; a 5% fee on credits bought through Unified Billing
Your own provider keys	Yes, for 41 providers, with no fee on tokens	Yes	Yes	Yes, on paid plans: no fee on the first $25,000 a month of usage, then 5%	Yes, kept in Cloudflare's Secrets Store
Your team's AI plans	Claude Code on Claude plans, Codex on ChatGPT plans, and 30 coding plans, on every plan	Claude Code on a Claude plan, documented for Enterprise; ChatGPT plans not documented	Claude Code on a Claude plan; ChatGPT only through one shared account	No: Claude Code is billed in OpenRouter credits	No: Claude Code needs Cloudflare credits or an Anthropic API key
APIs	Chat Completions, Responses and Anthropic Messages, plus embeddings	Chat Completions, Responses and Anthropic Messages	All three, plus embeddings, images, audio, batches and more	All three; Responses without stored state	All three, through its REST API since May 2026
Control
Keys, budgets and rate limits per person	Virtual keys with budgets and rate limits on every plan; budget rules on Pro and up	Budgets and rate limits per key on Enterprise and some Pro accounts	Virtual keys, budgets and rate limits in the free version	Budgets per member and per key, with model allowlists, on paid plans	Spend and rate limits per gateway; per person through Cloudflare Access
Secrets and personal data	Flag or block on every plan; masking, answer scanning and your own rules on Pro and up	Personal-data redaction on Pro; secrets only through a regex you write	Personal-data masking in the free version; secret detection on Enterprise	Personal data redacted or blocked in requests	Flagged or blocked through Cloudflare One DLP, not masked; Llama Guard billed by Workers AI
MCP tools	MCP relay, per-member sign-in, connectors and a catalog of 60 remote servers, plus the MCP registry’s, on every plan; per-tool Tool Packs on Pro and up	An MCP gateway with tools and sign-in per user	An MCP gateway with permissions and sign-in per user, in the free version	—	MCP server portals, in Cloudflare One
Request logs	7 days on Free, 30 on Pro, 90 on Scale	3 days on Developer, 30 on Production	In your own Postgres, kept as long as you set	Metadata only, unless you opt in to prompt logging	3 days on Cloudflare's Free plan, 7 on Paid
Fallbacks and caching	Fallback chains, and prompt and response caching, on every plan	Fallbacks on every plan; semantic caching on paid plans	Fallbacks, and exact or semantic caching	Routing across hosts by price and uptime; free cache hits	Fallbacks through Dynamic Routing; exact-match caching
Running it
Single sign-on	SSO and directory sync on Enterprise and Agents Teams	SSO and SCIM on Enterprise	Free for up to 5 users, then Enterprise	SSO and SCIM on Enterprise	Dashboard SSO, free on every plan
Where it runs	Hosted by Tempr; in your VPC or on your own servers on Enterprise	Hosted, or on your own servers with the open-source core	On your own servers, air-gapped too	Hosted by OpenRouter	Hosted by Cloudflare
Open source	No	The gateway core, MIT	Yes, MIT; Enterprise features licensed separately	No	No
A coding agent of its own	Tempr Chat in Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, and the Tempr CLI	—	—	—	—

From each vendor's own pages, read on October 15, 2026; the sources are under each product below. A dash means the feature isn't offered, or the vendor's pages don't mention it.

Which gateway fits

When each one is the better pick

Each of these is the right choice for some teams. Here's where each one fits, and where Tempr fits better.

Portkey

Prisma AIRS AI Gateway

An AI gateway with routing, guardrails and observability. Palo Alto Networks closed its acquisition of Portkey on May 29, 2026, and now sells it as the Prisma AIRS AI Gateway. The core gateway is open source (MIT) and can run on your own servers.

Pick Portkey ifyou're standardizing on Palo Alto Networks for AI security, want semantic caching, or want to run the open-source core yourself.

Pick Tempr ifyou want per-person keys, budgets and guardrails on every plan rather than on Enterprise, and your team's Claude and ChatGPT plans behind the same endpoint.

Sources: Pricing · plans compared · budgets and rate limits · Claude Code · guardrail checks · MCP gateway · acquisition · source code

LiteLLM

Open-source proxy

An open-source (MIT) gateway you run on your own servers. Virtual keys, budgets, personal-data masking and an MCP gateway come with the free version; an Enterprise license adds secret detection, audit logs and SSO beyond five users.

Pick LiteLLM ifeverything has to stay inside your own network, air-gapped included, and you have people to run, scale and patch the proxy.

Pick Tempr ifyou'd rather not run a proxy yourself, and want secret masking, and Codex on each person's own ChatGPT plan, without an Enterprise license.

Running a LiteLLM proxy already? Tempr can call it like any other model, as a custom model endpoint.

Sources: Product · Enterprise · Claude subscriptions · ChatGPT provider · secret detection · MCP permissions · license

OpenRouter

Model marketplace

A hosted marketplace with hundreds of models behind one API, paid for from one credit balance, with routing across the hosts of each model. Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter on August 19, 2026; OpenRouter says the product stays the same.

Pick OpenRouter ifyou'd rather not hold an account with each provider, and want one balance for hundreds of models, routed by price and uptime.

Pick Tempr ifyou already have provider keys or AI plans and want them used as they are, with no fee on tokens at any volume, plus masking, MCP governance and a coding agent for your team.

Already on OpenRouter? Your OpenRouter key works in Tempr Chat and the CLI; the Gateway takes the keys you hold with each provider.

Sources: Pricing · your own keys · Claude Code · guardrails · prompt logging · Responses API · Stripe

Cloudflare AI Gateway

On Cloudflare's network

A gateway on Cloudflare's network, with analytics, caching, rate limiting and fallbacks free on every Cloudflare plan. It works with Cloudflare One for data-loss rules, sign-in and MCP server portals.

Pick Cloudflare AI Gateway ifyour stack already runs on Cloudflare, and you want a free gateway at the edge with Cloudflare One's DLP and Access around it.

Pick Tempr ifyou want keys and budgets for each person without setting up Access, masking rather than only blocking, and your team's Claude and ChatGPT plans behind the gateway.

Sources: Pricing · your own keys · Claude Code · spend limits · DLP · guardrails · logs · MCP portals

Coding assistants

Tempr next to GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline and Continue

Tempr's own agent, Tempr Chat, runs in Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, with chat, the agent and inline completion all on your own keys. The CLI comes with every Agents plan.

Tempr compared with four coding assistants
Feature	TemprChat and CLI	GitHub CopilotGitHub	CursorX Subscription plans	ClineOpen source	ContinueDiscontinued
Where it runs
Visual Studio 2022 and 2026	Yes	Yes; your own key only in the new Agent (Preview)	No	No	No
VS Code	Yes	Yes	Its own editor, built on VS Code	Yes, and VS Code forks	Yes; last release June 2026
JetBrains IDEs	Yes	Yes; your own key in preview	Its agent, through JetBrains AI Assistant, on a paid plan	Yes, in early access	Yes; last release March 2026
Your own keys
For chat and the agent	Yes, on every plan: 42 providers, plus your own OpenAI-compatible endpoints on Pro	Yes in VS Code, without a GitHub account; preview in Visual Studio and JetBrains	Chat models only, on Premium and up: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, AWS Bedrock	Yes: 30+ providers and local models	Yes: 50+ providers and local models
For inline completion	Yes, in all three IDEs	No: completions run on Copilot's models	No: Tab runs on Cursor's models	No inline completion	Yes
Where requests go on your key	Through Tempr's servers to your provider	Chat skips GitHub's Copilot API; completions and search go through GitHub	Through Cursor's servers	Straight to your provider	Straight to your provider
Price
For one person	Standard $15/mo, Pro $20/mo	Free; Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo; chat and agent use metered AI Credits	Free; Plus $8/mo (Grok models only); Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo	Free; ClinePass $9.99/mo for open-weight models	Free
For teams	From $35/seat/mo	Business $19/seat, Enterprise $39/seat	From $30/user/mo; requests on your own key still pay Cursor's token rate	Enterprise, custom pricing	—
To try it	7-day trial on every Agents plan; the Gateway has a free tier	Free plan	Free plan	Free and open source (Apache 2.0)	Free and open source (Apache 2.0), unmaintained

From each vendor's own pages, read on October 15, 2026. Each product's name opens the full comparison.

Which assistant fits

When each one is the better pick

GitHub Copilot

GitHub

Copilot runs in all three IDEs Tempr does, and takes your own key: in VS Code without a GitHub account, and in preview in Visual Studio and JetBrains IDEs. In VS Code your key covers chat and utility tasks only; completions run on Copilot's models and need a GitHub account. Since June 2026, chat and agent use of Copilot's own models draws on metered AI Credits, and on Free, Pro and Pro+ GitHub trains on interaction data unless you opt out.

Pick GitHub Copilot ifyou'd rather not manage keys, want a free tier, or want GitHub-native features such as the Copilot cloud agent, which works in GitHub Actions and opens pull requests.

Pick Tempr ifyou want your keys behind every feature, inline completion included, working the same way in Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains, with 42 providers to choose from.

Already on Copilot? The Tempr Gateway can be its bring-your-own-key provider.

Full comparison: Tempr vs GitHub Copilot →

Sources: Plans · models in VS Code · your own key in Visual Studio · feature matrix · AI Credits · interaction data

Cursor

X Subscription plans

Cursor is its own editor, built on VS Code, with fast multi-line Tab completion and cloud agents. Since October 12, 2026 its plans are sold as X Subscription plans. Your own keys work for chat models only, on Premium and up; Tab always runs on Cursor's models. Every request, including ones on your own key, goes through Cursor's servers, and its zero-data-retention policy doesn't cover requests on your key.

Pick Cursor ifyou're happy to switch to an AI-first editor and would rather buy model usage from Cursor than bring your own keys.

Pick Tempr ifyou want to stay in Visual Studio, VS Code or your JetBrains IDE, with your own keys used for every feature, completions included.

Using Cursor already? Point its OpenAI base URL at the Tempr Gateway.

Full comparison: Tempr vs Cursor →

Sources: Pricing · X Subscription · API keys · JetBrains · data use

Cline

Open source

Cline is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) coding agent for VS Code and its forks, with a JetBrains plugin in early access, a CLI and a desktop app. It works on your own keys for 30+ providers and local models, and on your key, requests go straight from your machine to your provider. It has Plan and Act modes, checkpoints and an MCP marketplace, but no inline completion and no Visual Studio version.

Pick Cline ifyou want a free, open-source agent in VS Code, don't need inline completion, and want nothing between you and your provider.

Pick Tempr ifyou want the agent, chat and inline completion in one extension across Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains, with sessions that sync between machines and a turn that resumes after a dropped connection.

Using Cline already? Add the Tempr Gateway as one provider entry.

Full comparison: Tempr vs Cline →

Sources: Pricing · installing Cline · FAQ · ClinePass · source code

Continue

Discontinued

Continue was a popular free, open-source (Apache 2.0) assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, with chat, an agent and autocomplete on your own keys. Cursor acquired it, and its repository is now read-only and no longer maintained; reports date the deal to June 2026. The last releases were in June 2026 for VS Code and March 2026 for JetBrains, so the extension still runs but won't get fixes when providers change their APIs.

Moving off Continue?Tempr covers the same ground, with chat, the agent and inline completion on your own keys in VS Code and JetBrains, adds Visual Studio, and is actively developed.

Staying on Continue for now? You can point it at the Tempr Gateway.

Full comparison: Tempr vs Continue →

Sources: continue.dev · source code · The New Stack

Privacy

Where your code goes

Every product here sends your prompts, and often your code, to a model provider. What differs is what sits in between. A gateway does by design: requests pass through Portkey's, OpenRouter's or Cloudflare's servers, or through the LiteLLM proxy you run. OpenRouter keeps only metadata unless you opt in to prompt logging. Of the coding assistants, Cline and Continue call your provider straight from your machine. Copilot's bring-your-own-key chat in VS Code skips GitHub's Copilot API, but completions, semantic search and its own models go through GitHub. Cursor routes every request through its own servers, including ones on your own key, and its zero-data-retention policy doesn't cover those.

Tempr relays requests through its servers too; on the Enterprise plan, the Gateway can run in your VPC or on your own servers instead. The agent's tool-calling loop runs server-side, so a turn survives a dropped connection and resumes where it stopped; tool calls and their results, which can include code, are kept to support that run. Your provider keys are encrypted at rest, never logged in plain text and never pooled with other customers', and Tempr doesn't mark up token prices.

Questions

About these comparisons.

Is Tempr an AI gateway or a coding assistant?

Both, on one account. The Tempr Gateway is an AI gateway: one endpoint for your provider keys and your team's Claude, ChatGPT and coding plans, with keys, budgets, guardrails, logs and MCP governance on every request. Tempr Chat and the Tempr CLI are Tempr's own coding agent, in Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and the terminal, on the same keys and under the same rules.

Can we keep Cursor, Copilot, Cline or Claude Code and still use Tempr?

Yes. Point the tool's base URL at the Tempr Gateway, and it reaches the models on your allowlist under your budgets and guardrails. Each tool has a setup guide on the integrations page.

Does Tempr add a fee to tokens?

No. On your own keys you pay your providers directly, and your AI plans pay for their requests as they already do. Tempr charges for its plans, not for tokens: the Gateway starts free, and Pro is $49 a month.

Is Tempr open source? Can we host it ourselves?

Tempr isn't open source. On the Enterprise plan, the Gateway can run in your VPC or on your own servers. If open source is a hard requirement, LiteLLM and Portkey's gateway core are both MIT-licensed.

How did you check these comparisons?

Everything about the other products comes from their own pricing pages, documentation, press releases and release notes, read on October 15, 2026 and linked under each one. Where a vendor's pages don't say, the table shows a dash rather than a guess. These products change quickly; if you spot something out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

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