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Bifrost

Open-source LLM gateway in Go from Maxim AI that puts 20+ model providers behind one OpenAI-compatible API, with failover, load balancing, semantic caching and budgets.

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Where it fits

LLM API · Gateway (many providers, one API)A self-hosted, open-source gateway written in Go that routes one OpenAI-compatible API to many providers with failover, load balancing and caching.Trade-off: Younger and with a smaller community than LiteLLM; clustering, guardrails and some governance features are in the paid enterprise edition.

Who uses it

No maker's live product on record yet.

We haven't found a product that uses Bifrost yet.

Reliability and open issues

Most wanted on GitHubOpen on 2026-10-04 in maximhq/bifrost, with activity in the last year — issues and feature requests by 👍.

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Questions makers ask about Bifrost

Is Bifrost free?

Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at Contact sales (enterprise). source ↗

Is Bifrost open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with Bifrost?

It serves an llms.txt docs index; it has an official CLI (@maximhq/bifrost).

Who uses Bifrost?

No tracked product yet. source ↗