maximhq/bifrost
Open-source, high-performance AI gateway that works as your LLM gateway, MCP gateway and agent gateway. One OpenAI-compatible API for 10,000+ models, with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, virtual keys, budgets and MCP Code Mode. Works with any SDK or agent and adds under 200µs of overhead at 5k RPS.
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SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 207 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #19 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 25, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a high-performance AI gateway unifying access to multiple AI providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API with load balancing and failover.
- Delivers minimal latency overhead and seamless multi-provider failover, ensuring 100% request success at high throughput with adaptive load balancing.
- Use for deploying a scalable AI gateway that integrates diverse AI models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock with zero configuration.
- Use for embedding a native Go SDK to integrate AI capabilities directly into Go applications with maximum performance and custom middleware support.
- Use for migrating existing AI applications to a unified gateway with drop-in replacement of OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google GenAI APIs without code changes.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Bifrost is a high-performance AI gateway that unifies access to 12+ 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.
Go from zero to production-ready AI gateway in under a minute.
Step 1: Start Bifrost Gateway
Step 2: Configure via Web UI
Step 3: Make your first API call
That's it! Your AI gateway is running with a web interface for visual configuration, real-time monitoring, and analytics.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+2,062 stars over 83 days across 31 snapshot days; best day +49 on Sep 14.
Forks
1.5K+493
Open issues
1.5K+559
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| maximhq/bifrost | 9.4K | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 115.8K | +4.0K | 75 | — |
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