This guide compares the five AI gateways enterprise teams are actually evaluating in 2026: Lunar.dev, Portkey, Kong AI Gateway, LiteLLM, and TrueFoundry. It argues modern gateways must govern beyond LLM calls to include tool invocation and MCP servers, noting MCP has surpassed 97 million monthly downloads and that Lunar.dev reaches up to 90,000 requests per second at ~4ms p99.