| What it does | The fastest open-source AI gateway for LLMs, MCP and agents
| The Context Gateway for AI systems
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Bifrost OSS is free forever. Bifrost Enterprise has custom pricing; contact sales for a quote.
| Community: Free (open-source, local use). Pro: $9/month or $90/year (personal cloud sync, 1 GB hosted index). Team: $29/month per seat or $290/year per seat (team server, shared workspace, 20 GB index, 1-25 seats). Enterprise: Contact for pricing.
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| 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
| - Source selection and retrieval with task-relevant context at configurable depth
- Access controls via PathJail boundary enforcement and role-based permissions
- Read-time content filters for injection patterns and personal data detection
- Memory and continuity to retain findings and connections across sessions
- Evidence and outcomes recording with source references and usage audit trails
- Integration with AI tools via SDK, MCP, hooks and supported client adapters
- Local, VPC, on-premises and offline deployment options
- Optional production intelligence for planning, ranking and routing enhancements
- SDK with five stable primitives and six Agent Tools language contracts
- Context cache, reference routing and usage accounting
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| 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
| - Deterministic, model-agnostic context processing independent of AI provider choice
- Governs context without controlling model calls, keeping AI decisions under user ownership
- Records measurable impact with 64.1% reported context reduction in field use
- Open-source core (Apache 2.0) with commercial tiers for teams and enterprises
- Transparent governance with separate evaluation of task outcome from context delivery
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 72 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | 42 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 25 | 3 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 47 | 35 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 2020 | 212 |
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