| What it does | The fastest open-source AI gateway for LLMs, MCP and agents
| One OpenAI-compatible API and prepaid balance for nearly 500 AI models at lower prices
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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.
| Free models with limited throughput; paid models charged per unit (language models per 1 million input and output tokens, images per image, video per second, speech per 1,000 characters, transcription per minute). Prices vary by model with discounts up to 50% compared to official rates. Example: Dee
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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
| - Nearly 500 AI models from leading publishers
- OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible API
- Text, image, video, speech and transcription models
- Per-key spending limits
- MCP server integration with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Free models with limited throughput
- Per-model pricing with no platform fee
- Prepaid balance system
- AI Workspace for team collaboration and research
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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
| - Single API key and balance for nearly 500 models with no platform fee
- Discounts up to 50% compared to official model pricing
- OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility without changing request format
- Works directly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI via MCP server
- No data used for model training
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 25 | 3 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 2020 | 20 |
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