Comparison
How DVARA compares
Most gateways now cover the basics. DVARA's depth is the gap that remains — tamper-evident signed audit, argument-level MCP policy, PII on tool-call arguments, and agentic kill-switches. The full 50-capability matrix across 10 gateways is below.
| DVARA | LiteLLM | Portkey | Kong AI | Cloudflare | Helicone | AWS Bedrock | Bifrost | Databricks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Gateway | |||||||||
| OpenAI-compatible unified API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSE streaming (zero-copy pass-through) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured outputs across providers | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Multi-provider (14+: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure, Ollama, Mistral, Cohere, Groq, Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot, ChatGLM, Grok) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | ∼ |
| Routing & Resilience | |||||||||
| Weighted routing + failover | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ∼ | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Latency-aware routing (EWMA P95) | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | — | — | ∼ | — |
| Cost-aware routing | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Canary + A/B routing | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Per-provider circuit breaker | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | ✓ | — | — | — | ∼ | — |
| Capability-aware route filtering | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Policy & Governance | |||||||||
| Policy-as-Code engine (YAML DSL) | ✓ | — | — | ∼ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Policy dry-run before activation | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Policy versioning + rollback | ✓ | — | — | ∼ | — | — | — | — | — |
| RBAC access control | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| SSO (OIDC / SAML) | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| PII & Data Protection | |||||||||
| PII detection + redaction (LLM + MCP) | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | — | ∼ | — | — |
| DLP custom patterns per workspace | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Reversible tokenisation | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| MCP Gateway & Tool Governance | |||||||||
| MCP tool calls proxied & governed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP server registry + credential store | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | ✓ | ∼ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP argument-level policy rules | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | ∼ | — |
| MCP PII scanning (args + response) | ✓ | — | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | — | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ |
| MCP rate limiting per workspace | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | — | ∼ | ✓ | — |
| Agentic AI Governance | |||||||||
| Human approval gate (enforced at exec) | ✓ | — | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | — | — |
| Agent loop detection + kill switch | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Multi-agent session tracking | ✓ | — | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | — | ∼ |
| Full OTel trace: LLM turns + MCP calls | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | — | — | ∼ |
| Audit & Compliance | |||||||||
| Tamper-evident HMAC-signed audit log | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | ∼ | — | ∼ |
| SOC2 / HIPAA / GDPR evidence packages | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | ∼ | — | ∼ |
| SIEM export (Splunk, CloudWatch, Kafka) | ✓ | — | ∼ | ∼ | — | ∼ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Scheduled compliance reports (PDF + JSON) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| FinOps & Cost Control | |||||||||
| Real-time cost per request (USD) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ∼ | — | ∼ |
| Budget caps (soft + hard) per workspace | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | — | — | — |
| Auto model downgrade on budget threshold | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chargeback reports per workspace/team | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | — | — | — |
| Guardrails & Safety | |||||||||
| Prompt firewall (pre + post filter pipeline) | ✓ | — | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | — | ✓ | — | ∼ |
| Jailbreak detection | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | — | — | ✓ | — | ∼ |
| Output sanitization (XSS, SQLi, SSRF) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| System prompt leakage detection | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Content policy filters per workspace | ✓ | — | ∼ | — | ∼ | — | ✓ | — | ∼ |
| Deployment & Infrastructure | |||||||||
| Air-gapped / on-prem deployment | ✓ | ∼ | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kubernetes Helm chart + HPA | ✓ | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hot config propagation (< 5s) | ✓ | — | — | ∼ | — | — | — | — | ∼ |
| Observability | |||||||||
| Prometheus metrics + Grafana dashboards | ✓ | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | — | ∼ | ∼ | — | ∼ |
| OpenTelemetry distributed tracing | ✓ | ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | — | — | ∼ | — | ∼ |
| Per-workspace analytics | ✓ | ∼ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ∼ | — | ∼ |
Every column but ours describes what a vendor's public documentation said when we read it in June 2026 — a dash (—) means we did not find the capability documented, not that the product cannot do it. Vendors ship continuously; check their docs before deciding. The DVARA column is a claim about our own code and is verified against the released tag.
Individual head-to-heads
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