ModelLane is an AI inference gateway and routing control plane for developers and organizations using multiple language-model providers. It offers an OpenAI-compatible API for sending requests to hosted, private, or self-hosted models. Teams can define routing policies (“Lanes”) by cost, latency, availability, data retention, and region, with provider failover, retries, credential isolation, and route-level usage and spend visibility. Documented connectors include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, and DeepSeek, plus local serving tools such as Ollama and vLLM. An MCP interface exposes model-layer operations. Use cases include consolidating provider APIs, choosing routes for different workloads, maintaining continuity when a provider is unavailable, and monitoring inference activity. Deployment options include hosted service, dedicated deployment, and a customer VPC.