Glide provides an open model gateway for developing production generative AI applications.
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Use Bifrost as an AI gateway with load balancing, guardrails, cluster mode, and support for many models.
About Bifrost
Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway that provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for accessing more than 23 model providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, and Azure. It can be started locally with npx or Docker and includes a web interface for configuration, real-time monitoring, and analytics.
Core capabilities include automatic fallbacks between providers and models, load balancing across multiple API keys and providers, and semantic caching. Enterprise deployments are described separately and add features such as adaptive load balancing, clustering, guardrails, and an MCP gateway.
Key features
- Single OpenAI-compatible API for more than 23 model providers
- Automatic fallbacks between providers and models
- Load balancing across multiple API keys and providers
- Semantic caching based on similarity of requests
- Model Context Protocol support for external tools such as databases and web search
- Budget management using virtual keys, teams, and customer budgets
Best for: Development and platform teams that call several AI model providers and want one gateway for routing, failover, and monitoring.
Good for
- Open-source repository with a public license file
- One API interface covers many providers, so application code does not need a separate integration for each
- Can be started with a single Docker or npx command and a web interface for configuration
Watch out for
- Adaptive load balancing, clustering, guardrails, and the MCP gateway are described as enterprise deployment capabilities, and the source does not confirm their availability in the open-source repository
- Pricing is listed as unknown
Bifrost at a glance
- Website
- github.com/maximhq/bifrost
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Bifrost FAQ
How do I start Bifrost?
Run 'npx -y @maximhq/bifrost' for a local install, or 'docker run -p 8080:8080 maximhq/bifrost' with Docker. Then open http://localhost:8080 to use the web interface.
Which model providers does Bifrost support?
The source lists OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Azure, Cerebras, Cohere, Mistral, Ollama, Groq, and more, with more than 23 providers in total.
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