--- title: "bifrost" type: "tool" slug: "maximhq-bifrost" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/maximhq-bifrost" github_url: "https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost" homepage_url: "https://www.getmaxim.ai/bifrost" stars: 6328 forks: 857 primary_language: "Go" license: "Apache-2.0" categories: ["inference-serving", "developer-tools"] tags: ["llm", "gateway-services", "load-balancing", "generative-ai", "ai-gateway", "guardrails"] updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:38:24.686116+00:00" --- # bifrost > Fastest enterprise AI gateway with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, and support for over 1000 models. Bifrost is a high-performance AI gateway that offers fast access to multiple providers through a single OpenAI-compatible API. It provides features such as automatic failover, load balancing, and enterprise-grade security. ## Facts - Repository: https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost - Homepage: https://www.getmaxim.ai/bifrost - Stars: 6,328 · Forks: 857 · Open issues: 565 · Watchers: 25 - Primary language: Go - License: Apache-2.0 - Last pushed: 2026-07-07T17:36:49+00:00 ## Categories - [Inference & Serving](/categories/inference-serving.md) - [Developer Tools](/categories/developer-tools.md) ## Tags llm, gateway-services, load-balancing, generative-ai, ai-gateway, guardrails ## Related tools - [ECC](/tools/affaan-m-ecc.md) - The agent harness performance optimization system (★ 226,962) - [AutoGPT](/tools/significant-gravitas-autogpt.md) - AutoGPT: Build, Deploy, and Run AI Agents (★ 185,417) - [prompts.chat](/tools/f-prompts-chat.md) - The world's largest open-source prompt library for AI (★ 165,019) - [JavaGuide](/tools/snailclimb-javaguide.md) - Snailclimb/JavaGuide: 面试 & 后端通用面试指南，覆盖计算机基础、数据库、分布式、高并发、系统设计与 AI 应用开发 (★ 156,863) - [open-webui](/tools/open-webui-open-webui.md) - User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) (★ 144,575) - [browser-use](/tools/browser-use-browser-use.md) - 🌐 Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease. (★ 103,315) - [caveman](/tools/juliusbrussee-caveman.md) - Cuts 65% of tokens in AI coding agent responses. (★ 86,150) - [vllm](/tools/vllm-project-vllm.md) - A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs (★ 85,612) ## README (excerpt) ```text # Bifrost AI Gateway [Run In Postman](https://app.getpostman.com/run-collection/31642484-2ba0e658-4dcd-49f4-845a-0c7ed745b916?action=collection%2Ffork&source=rip_markdown&collection-url=entityId%3D31642484-2ba0e658-4dcd-49f4-845a-0c7ed745b916%26entityType%3Dcollection%26workspaceId%3D63e853c8-9aec-477f-909c-7f02f543150e) ## The fastest way to build AI applications that never go down 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. ## Quick Start **Go from zero to production-ready AI gateway in under a minute.** **Step 1:** Start Bifrost Gateway ```bash # Install and run locally npx -y @maximhq/bifrost # Or use Docker docker run -p 8080:8080 maximhq/bifrost ``` **Step 2:** Configure via Web UI ```bash # Open the built-in web interface open http://localhost:8080 ``` **Step 3:** Make your first API call ```bash curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Bifrost!"}] }' ``` **That's it!** Your AI gateway is running with a web interface for visual configuration, real-time monitoring, and analytics. **Complete Setup Guides:** - [Gateway Setup](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/quickstart/gateway/setting-up) - HTTP API deployment - [Go SDK Setup](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/quickstart/go-sdk/setting-up) - Direct integration --- ## Enterprise Deployments 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. Book a Demo
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--- ## Key Features ### Core Infrastructure - **[Unified Interface](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/providers/supported-providers/overview)** - Single OpenAI-compatible API for all providers - **[Multi-Provider Support](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/quickstart/gateway/provider-configuration)** - OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Azure, Cerebras, Cohere, Mistral, Ollama, Groq, and more - **[Automatic Fallbacks](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/features/retries-and-fallbacks)** - Seamless failover between providers and models with zero downtime - **[Load Balancing](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/features/retries-and-fallbacks)** - Intelligent request distribution across multiple API keys and providers ### Advanced Features - **[Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/mcp/overview)** - Enable AI models to use external tools (filesystem, web search, databases) - **[Semantic Caching](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/features/semantic-caching)** - Intelligent response caching based on semantic similarity to reduce costs and latency - **[Multimodal Support](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/quickstart/gateway/streaming)** - Support for text,images, audio, and streaming, all behind a common interface. - **[Custom Plugins](https://docs.getbifrost.ai/enterprise/custom-plugins)** - Extensible middleware architecture for analyti ``` --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/maximhq-bifrost`](/api/graphcanon/tools/maximhq-bifrost) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_