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The two AI gateway patterns in production inference
Baseten · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- AI gateways follow two patterns: access gateways routing one application to many model providers, and serving gateways routing many customers to owned models.
- Why it matters
- Teams operating production AI systems need this distinction when choosing gateway architecture, especially those monetizing their own model deployments.
- Watch out
- Treating access and serving gateways as interchangeable leads to evaluating wrong products; they optimize for different traffic flows and operational problems.
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- inference
The patterns behind this
- MCP Gateway (Tool Federation & Governance)
- Generative UI (Agent-Rendered Interfaces)
- Eval-Driven Development (Agent CI)
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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