#25 · Primary category: AI Gateway & API Infrastructure

bifrost

ai-gateway gateway gateway-services generative-ai guardrails llm llm-cost llm-gateway llm-observability llmops load-balancing mcp-client mcp-gateway mcp-server model-router token-management

Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS.

Project last updated:08/29/26

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License

Apache-2.0

Why we included this project

Bifrost answers a real problem for teams that have outgrown pointing every service at a different provider: it puts OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, and roughly 20 more providers behind one OpenAI-compatible API, so switching models is a configuration change rather than a code rewrite. It also carries the operational load a rollout usually hits later, with automatic failover, adaptive load balancing, semantic caching, and token/cost tracking built in, plus guardrails and cluster mode for bigger deployments. The web UI handles key configuration and traffic monitoring visually instead of editing config files, and the one-line npx or Docker install gets you from zero to a working gateway in under a minute. If your team runs several model providers in production and wants the gateway to stay out of the request path, this is one of the more practical options we have seen.

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