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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.

Best for

Routing a single OpenAI-compatible API across 23+ model providers with automatic failover, load balancing and semantic caching.

Avoid if

You need adaptive load balancing, clustering, guardrails or the MCP gateway; the project describes those as unlocked by enterprise deployments.

About bifrost

Bifrost is a high-performance AI gateway that unifies access to 23+ providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, and more) through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Deploy in seconds with zero configuration and get automatic failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and enterprise-grade features.

That's it! Your AI gateway is running with a web interface for visual configuration, real-time monitoring, and analytics.

Bifrost supports enterprise-grade, private deployments for teams running production AI systems at scale. In addition to private networking, custom security controls, and governance, enterprise deployments unlock advanced capabilities including adaptive load balancing, clustering, guardrails, MCP gateway and and other features designed for enterprise-grade scale and reliability.

From the project's README

bifrost is an open-source project written primarily in Go, with 8.4k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Install

npx -y @maximhq/bifrost
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