Bifrost
Bifrost is a high-performance open-source AI gateway that unifies access to 20+ AI providers through a single OpenAI-compatible API. It supports 1,000+ models with adaptive load balancing, automatic failover, semantic caching, and enterprise observability features. Bifrost is open-source under Apache 2.0.
APIs
Bifrost HTTP Gateway API
The Bifrost HTTP Gateway API provides an OpenAI-compatible RESTful interface that routes requests to any of 20+ supported AI providers. Requests specify the provider and model u...
Bifrost Go SDK
The Bifrost Go SDK provides a native Go client for embedding the Bifrost AI gateway directly into Go applications using the github.com/maximhq/bifrost/core package.
Bifrost MCP Gateway
The Bifrost Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway enables AI agents to discover and execute external tools through a standardized protocol, with OAuth 2.0 authentication and tool...
Capabilities
Features
Single API interface compatible with OpenAI SDK for all 20+ providers.
Distribute requests across providers and models based on availability and performance.
Automatically retry failed requests on alternative providers without client changes.
Cache semantically similar prompts to reduce latency and API costs.
Model Context Protocol gateway for AI agent tool discovery and execution.
Native Go library for embedding Bifrost gateway directly into applications.
Built-in metrics, tracing, and logging for production AI gateway deployments.
Centralized API key management for all connected AI providers.
Use Cases
Build applications that can seamlessly switch between OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers.
Route requests to cheaper providers during peak costs or use caching to reduce API spend.
Ensure AI features remain available by failing over across multiple provider accounts.
Enable AI agents to discover and execute tools through the MCP gateway protocol.
A/B test different models and providers without changing application code.
Integrations
Route to OpenAI GPT-4o, GPT-4, and other OpenAI models.
Route to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, and other Anthropic models.
Route to Cohere Command and other Cohere models.
Route to models hosted on AWS Bedrock including Titan and Claude.
Route to Azure-hosted OpenAI deployments.
Route to Gemini and other models on Google Vertex AI.