Deploy and Host LiteLLM & One API Alternative — CoAI Gateway on Railway

CoAI is an enterprise-grade, commercial-ready AI Gateway and SaaS Platform that provides a unified API interface and a premium UI dashboard for managing 200+ models across 35+ top AI providers. Serving as a robust open-source alternative to LiteLLM, Portkey, and One API, it features advanced multi-tenant routing, token management, intelligent load balancing, and integrated commercial subscription billing out of the box.

Click Deploy to deploy, and enter the domain name you wish to bind, wait for the deployment to complete.

After the deployment completes, visit your domain name and log in to the app using admin credencials:

👤 Username: root

🔒 Password: chatnio123456

⚠️ Security Notice: Please follow the prompts to change this default password in the chatnio backend immediately after your first login.

About Hosting LiteLLM & One API Alternative — CoAI Gateway

Deploying CoAI requires orchestrating a multi-tier architecture consisting of a high-performance Golang (Gin framework) backend API proxy, a responsive React-based web frontend interface, and stateful backing infrastructure. When managing this architecture, hosting involves configuring a production-grade relational database like MySQL for storing persistent data (such as user accounts, subscription records, token configurations, and system logs) alongside a Redis instance to handle intensive caching, model rate-limiting, and low-latency session tracking. By utilizing an automated platform builder, the system builds the full-stack container environment dynamically, automatically binding your upstream environment properties and ensuring secure, persistent database management for consistent uptime and performance.

Common Use Cases

Custom AI SaaS & Reselling API Quotas: Launch your own commercial wrapper platform with tier-based subscription plans, gift codes, and usage tracking to resell OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Claude API access.
Enterprise-Wide AI Gateway: Centralize corporate AI tokens behind a single proxy to enforce strict user access limits, track granular TPM/RPM metrics, and enable failover routing across distinct model endpoints.
Self-Hosted RAG & File Parsing Base: Power custom applications with an absolute all-file parser engine, built-in model cache operations, vector databases, and native web search integration.

Dependencies for LiteLLM & One API Alternative — CoAI Gateway Hosting

MySQL Database Server: Required for handling persistent core system records, system logs, order management details, and user authentication tables.
Redis Cache Instance: Essential for managing real-time rate limits, high-speed API token verification, and fast database response caching.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Below is the direct network routing configuration structure for defining internal system environments securely within your platform composition:

{
  "services": {
    "web": {
      "build": {
        "builder": "NIXPACKS"
      },
      "env": {
        "PORT": "8094",
        "NODE_ENV": "production",
        "DATABASE_URL": "${{MySQL.DATABASE_URL}}",
        "REDIS_URL": "${{Redis.REDIS_URL}}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Why Deploy LiteLLM & One API Alternative — CoAI Gateway on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying LiteLLM & One API Alternative — CoAI Gateway on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.