AI Gateway & API Infrastructure
Projects that provide centralized routing, security, observability, and management for AI/LLM APIs and MCP traffic, often as self-hosted or Kubernetes-native gateways.
107 projects
See methodology for ranking rules; order uses public GitHub metrics within this scenario.
| Rank | Project | Stars | Forks | Updated | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 |
modelcontextprotocol
Specification and documentation for the Model Context Protocol |
9.1K | 1.8K | 08/29/26 | Other |
| 22 |
higress
🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway |
9.2K | 1.3K | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 23 |
evolution-api
Evolution API is an open-source WhatsApp integration API |
9.5K | 7.2K | 07/14/26 | Other |
| 24 |
AIClient2API
Self-hosted proxy that converts client-only AI model APIs into an OpenAI-compatible gateway, supporting multiple providers and failover. |
8.7K | 1.4K | 08/29/26 | GPL-3.0 |
| 25 |
bifrost
Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS. |
7.6K | 1.1K | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 26 |
manifest
Connect Your Agents And Harnesses With Any Provider 🦚 |
7.5K | 504 | 08/28/26 | MIT |
| 27 |
registry
A community driven registry service for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. |
7.2K | 970 | 08/26/26 | Other |
| 28 |
plano
Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay focused on your agents core logic. |
7.0K | 487 | 08/19/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 29 |
ClawRouter
The agent-native LLM router for autonomous agents. Every frontier model behind one wallet, <1ms local routing, USDC payments on Base & Solana via x402. |
6.6K | 647 | 08/29/26 | MIT |
| 30 |
pal-mcp-server
The power of Claude Code / GeminiCLI / CodexCLI + [Gemini / OpenAI / OpenRouter / Azure / Grok / Ollama / Custom Model / All Of The Above] working as one. |
11.7K | 1.0K | 12/15/25 | Other |
| 31 |
fastapi_mcp
Expose your FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, with Auth! |
12.0K | 964 | 11/24/25 | MIT |
| 32 |
gpt-load
Multi-channel AI proxy with intelligent key rotation. |
6.3K | 673 | 08/29/26 | MIT |
| 33 |
hey-api
👨🚀 Turn API specifications into production-ready SDKs, validators, mocks, and more. 20+ plugins. Millions of weekly npm downloads. Used by Vercel, OpenCode, PayPal, AWS, Autodesk, and many more. |
5.3K | 428 | 08/24/26 | MIT |
| 34 |
semantic-router
A programmable Mixture-of-Models router for heterogeneous LLM inference |
5.4K | 853 | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 35 |
coai
Enterprise-grade unified LLM gateway supporting 200+ models and 35+ providers with built-in billing and cost management. |
9.3K | 1.2K | 03/12/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 36 |
llama-swap
Reliable model swapping for any local OpenAI/Anthropic compatible server - llama.cpp, vllm, etc |
5.5K | 444 | 08/29/26 | MIT |
| 37 |
open-connector
Open-source auth gateway connecting 1000+ SaaS providers to AI agents through SDK, CLI, MCP, HTTP, and OpenAPI. |
5.4K | 461 | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 38 |
agentgateway
Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers |
4.6K | 781 | 08/27/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 39 |
nasiko
Developer Control Plane for your AI Agents |
5.6K | 1.2K | 08/27/26 | Other |
| 40 |
axonhub
⚡️ Open-source AI Gateway — Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing. |
5.1K | 671 | 08/27/26 | Other |