Bifrost - The fastest LLM gateway in the market
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.
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Maxim AI
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 contact@getmaxim.ai.
@akshay_deo Wow, this is super cool, looking forward to using it! Congrats on the launch!
BestPage.ai
Whoa, love seeing a blazing-fast LLM gateway! Juggling slow API calls has been a pain for my side projects—can’t wait to see how much Bifrost speeds things up.
Maxim AI
@joey_zhu_seopage_ai Thanks! We’d love to hear how it performs in your setup.
Maxim AI
Hi, I’m Pratham.
I’ve been building products for a while now, and over time I’ve become deeply invested in backend systems that don’t just work, they scale, stay lean, and never get in your way. That’s the philosophy behind Bifrost, the open-source LLM gateway we’ve been building in Go.
Here’s what we focused on:
Architecture-first — so adding features never compromises performance.
Go, done right — full use of its concurrency and memory optimization features.
Lightweight core — with a powerful plugin system to toggle features like switches.
Multi-transport native — HTTP, gRPC(planned), and more coming in.
The result? A self-hosted gateway with ~11µs mean overhead at 5K RPS, support for every major LLM provider, built-in monitoring, hot-reloadable config, governance controls, and a clean UI built for production from day one.
You can get started here: getmaxim.ai/bifrost
Join the Discord to geek out with us: getmax.im/bifrost-discord
CodeNearby
Incredible work! 40x faster than LiteLLM is no joke. The built-in governance and plugin architecture show how well this is thought out. Upvoted!
Maxim AI
@subhh Thanks a lot, really appreciate it!
Good one. love the focus on engineering aspects!
Maxim AI
@manu_goel2 Thanks, Manu. We believe that at scale, all these small but impactful decisions that save you milliseconds really matter. That’s at the heart of both Bifrost and Maxim.
PROCESIO
Looks great, congratulations team
Maxim AI
@madalina_barbu Thank you!
Congrats team on the launch! Really impressive performance and the docs are clear. I'm currently using LiteLLM's Python SDK and haven't noticed performance to be too much of an issue - what are some other reasons besides performance I should consider switching to Bifrost?
Maxim AI
@k_kelleher Thanks, Kevin. If you’re using the LiteLLM Python SDK, Bifrost isn’t a replacement for that right now. But if you’re using the LiteLLM proxy or gateway, that’s where Bifrost shines as a drop-in replacement — and it can improve P99 latency by almost 90x at higher throughputs like 5k RPS.
AppStruct
Huge congratulations on the launch! Good luck!!
What's plugin first architecture? Any plugins available out of the box?
Maxim AI
@abbas143official Thanks you!
By plugin-first architecture, we mean that Bifrost keeps the core LLM gateway super lightweight, everything else like logging, monitoring, governance, etc. is modular and runs as plugins, meaning you can easily toggle these on/off and remove them from stack completely without touching the core. Plus, you can very easily make your own plugins and add it to the stack.
Out of the box, we include plugins for Prometheus metrics, logging, governance, and Maxim's observability. We also maintain an active directory of community plugins in our repo, feel free to explore.
Pratham, glad for the extra insights on the lightweight elements and fast api calls.
Maxim AI
@howell4change Thank you! Happy to share more about the architecture and the thinking behind Bifrost anytime.
Notiostore
Congrats on your launch 🎉🎉
We needed it, great job guys!💪
InspireMe
Oh yeah buddy, this is something special. Congrats on your launch 👏
350+ E-Commerce Tools Database
Definitely looks like it'll save devs tons of integration time while opening up additional features. Great looking interface too!
Congrats on the launch!
Maxim AI
@anthony_latona Thanks a ton!
Bifrost is a blazing-fast, open-source LLM gateway with failover, governance, and observability built in.
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.
Maxim AI
@vivek_sharma_25 Thanks, Vivek. We’ve done our best to cover the entire AI development workflow, all backed by a solid data pipeline.
Love the UI – clean and focused. So excited to use it!!
Seriously impressed by the speed claims and how polished the UI looks. This feels like a must-try for anyone building with LLMs. Congrats!
Looks very promising! A fast and open-source LLM gateway is exactly what many developers need. Great work!
Zivy
This looks super interesting. All the best to @akshay_deo @vgatmaxim and team.
This is exceptional, and would change the way LLMs are deployed en masse. More power to the team!