# Tailscale Aperture

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Tailscale Aperture and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for capturing and inspecting what AI requests and agents are doing, with traffic routed through one gateway that handles auth and model-based routes.

## Why people recommend it

- Lets you inspect and capture requests (2 comments): "Setting up something like Tailscale's Aperture will let you capture the requests and then you can diff them." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552356)) "lets me inspect everything" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261143))
- Routes AI traffic through one gateway (2 comments): "I get that today through Tailscale Aperture as an AI Gateway though" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290175)) "Tailscale Aperture (AI gateway — auth + routes by model name)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611822))
- Well liked by recommenders (3 comments): "Been playing around with tailscale's new aperture service too which is awesome as well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165992)) "I have all my data flowing through Tailscale Aperture, highly recommend." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026660)) "This feels like a great solution to me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784019))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LiteLLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/litellm.md): 72 recommend
- [Bifrost by Maxim](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bifrost.md): 17 recommend
- [GoModel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gomodel.md): 13 recommend
- [Claude Code Router](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-router.md): 11 recommend
- [CLIProxyAPI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cliproxyapi.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Tailscale Aperture", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tailscale-aperture/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).