Bifrost is the fastest, open-source LLM gateway with built-in MCP support, dynamic plugin architecture, and integrated governance. With a clean UI, Bifrost is 40x faster than LiteLLM, and plugs in with Maxim for e2e evals and observability of your AI products.
Hello PH community, I am Akshay from Maxim, and today we’re excited to officially announce the launch of Bifrost, a blazing-fast LLM gateway built for scale.
What is it?
Bifrost is the fastest, fully open-source LLM gateway that takes <30 seconds to set up. Written in pure Go (A+ code quality report), it is a product of deep engineering focus with performance optimized at every level of the architecture. It supports 1000+ models across providers via a single API.
What are the key features?
Robust governance: Rotate and manage API keys efficiently with weighted distribution, ensuring responsible and efficient use of models across multiple teams
Plugin first architecture: No callback hell, simple addition/creation of custom plugins
MCP integration: Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for external tool integration and execution
The best part? It plugs in seamlessly with Maxim, giving end-to-end observability, governance, and evals empowering AI teams -- from start-ups to enterprises -- to ship AI products with the reliability and speed required for real-world use.
Why now?
At Maxim, our internal experiments with multiple gateways for our production use cases quickly exposed scale as a bottleneck. And we weren’t alone. Fast-moving AI teams echoed the same frustration – LLM gateway speed and scalability were key pain points. They valued flexibility and speed, but not at the cost of efficiency at scale.
That’s why we built Bifrost—a high-performance, fully self-hosted LLM gateway that delivers on all fronts. With just 11μsoverhead at 5,000 RPS, it's 40x faster than LiteLLM.
You can get started today at getmaxim.ai/bifrost and join the discussion on Bifrost Discord. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].
Wow, Bifrost sounds awesome! Love that it’s open-source and super fast, plus the plugin system and governance features are great for building reliable AI products. Curious how the MCP support works in practice would love to see it in action!
I’m always curious about governance features, how does Bifrost help teams manage API keys and usage across multiple projects? Any cool use cases?
I love that you’ve published clear performance metrics—seeing exact benchmarks makes it so much easier to compare options. In the past, this has been one of the main reasons why we ended up writing our own wrapper logic, which is just extra code and something to maintain that can be avoidable.
Looks very promising! A fast and open-source LLM gateway is exactly what many developers need. Great work!
Seriously impressed by the speed claims and how polished the UI looks. This feels like a must-try for anyone building with LLMs. Congrats!
Maxim is the kind of platform serious AI teams have been waiting for full-lifecycle tooling from experimentation to production, plus human-in-the-loop support for that critical last mile. Add enterprise-grade compliance and you’ve got speed, reliability, and trust in one stack.
This is exceptional, and would change the way LLMs are deployed en masse. More power to the team!
Pratham, glad for the extra insights on the lightweight elements and fast api calls.
Bifrost is a blazing-fast, open-source LLM gateway with failover, governance, and observability built in.
Huge congratulations on the launch! Good luck!! What's plugin first architecture? Any plugins available out of the box?
Definitely looks like it'll save devs tons of integration time while opening up additional features. Great looking interface too!
Hello PH community, I am Akshay from Maxim, and today we’re excited to officially announce the launch of Bifrost, a blazing-fast LLM gateway built for scale.
What is it?
Bifrost is the fastest, fully open-source LLM gateway that takes <30 seconds to set up. Written in pure Go (A+ code quality report), it is a product of deep engineering focus with performance optimized at every level of the architecture. It supports 1000+ models across providers via a single API.
What are the key features?
Robust governance: Rotate and manage API keys efficiently with weighted distribution, ensuring responsible and efficient use of models across multiple teams
Plugin first architecture: No callback hell, simple addition/creation of custom plugins
MCP integration: Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for external tool integration and execution
The best part? It plugs in seamlessly with Maxim, giving end-to-end observability, governance, and evals empowering AI teams -- from start-ups to enterprises -- to ship AI products with the reliability and speed required for real-world use.
Why now?
At Maxim, our internal experiments with multiple gateways for our production use cases quickly exposed scale as a bottleneck. And we weren’t alone. Fast-moving AI teams echoed the same frustration – LLM gateway speed and scalability were key pain points. They valued flexibility and speed, but not at the cost of efficiency at scale.
That’s why we built Bifrost—a high-performance, fully self-hosted LLM gateway that delivers on all fronts. With just 11μs overhead at 5,000 RPS, it's 40x faster than LiteLLM.
We benchmarked it against leading LLM gateways - here’s the report.
How to get started?
You can get started today at getmaxim.ai/bifrost and join the discussion on Bifrost Discord. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].