
Everyone wants to be the AI gateway
AI gateways look alike because they occupy the same place in the request path. They differ in the decision they control and in the business each company is building around it.
The Bill, Please tells the stories and learnings from building Lago, a YC-backed open-source billing & metering product.
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AI gateways look alike because they occupy the same place in the request path. They differ in the decision they control and in the business each company is building around it.

Stripe may be buying the toll booth on inference.
Open AI Codex is winning the Anthropic Claude backlash for now, but I do not think the most interesting story is “Anthropic made a pricing mistake.”

In a foggy market, bet on architecture, not prediction

4K+ points on HackerNews and counting, don't lose your Soul though :)

The invisible software supply chain

Lovable crossed $200M ARR in under a year. Replit charges up to $200/month per seat.

We shipped our first AI features in late 2025, long after many other companies who built RAG chatbots starting in early 2023.

Depth over width

OpenClaw might be the fastest-growing open-source project in history.