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Open source
24 alternativesGlide
Glide provides an open model gateway for developing production generative AI applications.
About Glide
Glide is an open source model gateway that sits between an application and external model providers to handle tasks such as model failover, caching, and key management. It provides a unified REST API with a /chat endpoint that accepts a message and message history. It includes automatic fallbacks on provider failures, rate limits and transient errors, retries, centralized API key control and rotation, and metrics via OpenTelemetry. The project is under active development, and some items including Google Gemini chat, Anthropic streaming chat, and whitebox monitoring are listed as coming soon.
Key features
- Unified REST API for chat across supported model providers
- Automatic fallback on provider failures, rate limits, transient errors
- Smart retries to reduce communication latency
- Centralized API key control, management and rotation
- Observability via OpenTelemetry with model health metrics
- /chat endpoint accepting message and message_history
Best for: Developers building production generative AI applications that call multiple external LLM providers.
Good for
- Open source with sample config and demo deployment using Docker Compose
- One REST API across providers, limiting application changes when swapping providers
- Multiple install options listed, including Homebrew, Snapcraft and Docker images
Watch out for
- Described as under active development
- Google Gemini chat and Anthropic streaming chat listed as coming soon
- Whitebox monitoring listed as coming soon
Glide at a glance
- Website
- github.com/EinStack/glide
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Glide FAQ
How do I start the demo deployment?
Clone the glide-demo repository, run make init to create the secrets files and add provider keys, then run make up to start with Docker Compose.
Which providers are listed with chat support?
OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock (Titan), Cohere, OctoML and Ollama are listed with chat support, with streaming chat listed for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI and Cohere.
Where is the API documentation when Glide is running?
OpenAPI documentation is available locally at /v1/swagger, for example at http://127.0.0.1:9099/v1/swagger.
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