The fastest open-source AI gateway for LLMs, MCP and agents
See and control your team's AI use
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Pricing
Bifrost OSS is free forever. Bifrost Enterprise has custom pricing; contact sales for a quote.
Free: $0 with 60 requests/minute and 1,000 requests/day for first 7 days, then standard limits. Team: $70 per organization per month for up to 10 members with 600 requests/min. Enterprise: Custom annual pricing. Personal plan for IQ Code: $6 per month with 2,000 routing decisions.
Key features
Drop-in replacement for any AI SDK with support for OpenAI, Anthropic, and LiteLLM
Model catalog providing access to 1000+ AI models from 8+ providers
Automatic provider failover for 99.99% uptime
Budget management and rate limiting across virtual keys and teams
Built-in OpenTelemetry observability
MCP gateway for centralized tool connections and governance
Real-time guardrails for blocking unsafe model outputs
Virtual key management with independent budgets and access control
Semantic caching to reduce costs and latency
Enterprise clustering with high availability and zero-downtime deployments
Multi-provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek)
Built-in model routing for cost optimization
Per-person usage tracking without prompt visibility
Zero Data Retention (ZDR) option
What makes it different
50x faster than LiteLLM with P99 latency of 20 microseconds at 5k requests per second
Zero-touch in-VPC deployments ensure no data leaves your infrastructure
Free and open source with Apache 2.0 license
Works seamlessly with all major LLM frameworks including OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, and LiteLLM
Enterprise-grade governance with SSO, RBAC, and audit logs included in Enterprise tier
Privacy-first monitoring: usage analytics without storing prompt or completion text by default
Support for any OpenAI- or Anthropic-shaped endpoint through single gateway URL
Bifrost
IQ Routing