bifrost

Overview

Bifrost is an enterprise-grade AI gateway that provides unified access to multiple AI providers through an OpenAI-compatible API. It includes MCP (Model Context Protocol) support, enabling AI models to use external tools like filesystem, web search, and databases. The gateway features adaptive load balancing, semantic caching for cost reduction, and enterprise security features like SSO integration and budget management. With performance benchmarks showing less than 100µs overhead at 5k RPS, it's designed for production-scale deployments with zero downtime capabilities.

Try asking AI

After installing, here are 5 things you can ask your AI assistant:

• query_postgres

  Execute SQL queries against a PostgreSQL database

  Try:Find all customers who spent more than $1000Try:Show me the top 10 products by sales
• search_web

  Search the internet for information

  Try:Find recent articles about AI developmentsTry:What's the weather forecast in London tomorrow?
• list_files

  List files in a directory

  Try:Show me all files in the documents folderTry:List PDF files in the current directory
• create_github_issue

  Create a new issue on GitHub

  Try:Report a bug in the authentication systemTry:Request feature for dark mode
• send_email

  Send an email through SMTP

  Try:Send a report to the teamTry:Notify user about account update
• analyze_sentiment

  Analyze the sentiment of text

  Try:Is this review positive or negative?Try:Classify customer feedback by sentiment
• generate_image

  Generate images from text descriptions

  Try:Create a logo for a tech startupTry:Draw a picture of a futuristic city
• translate_text

  Translate text between languages

  Try:Translate this to FrenchTry:What does 'hola' mean in English?
• summarize_text

  Create a summary of longer text

  Try:Summarize this articleTry:Give me a brief overview of the meeting minutes
• extract_entities

  Extract named entities from text

  Try:Find all people mentioned in this documentTry:Identify locations in this news article
• classify_text

  Classify text into categories

  Try:Is this email spam or not?Try:Categorize this news article
• convert_units

  Convert between different units of measurement

  Try:Convert 10 miles to kilometersTry:How many ounces are in a liter?

Note: Tool names inferred from general MCP capabilities mentioned in the documentation rather than specific tool documentation

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Installation

npx -y @maximhq/bifrost

docker run -p 8080:8080 maximhq/bifrost

go get github.com/maximhq/bifrost/core

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bifrost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@maximhq/bifrost"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

FAQ

What MCP tools does Bifrost provide?

Bifrost enables MCP for external tool calling, allowing AI models to use filesystem, web search, databases, and other external tools through its gateway architecture.

How does Bifrost compare to LiteLLM in performance?

Bifrost claims to be 50x faster than LiteLLM with less than 100µs overhead at 5k RPS, maintaining 100% success rate under high load conditions.

On Hacker News

Recent discussion from the developer community.

• Bitfrost – LLM gateway 90x faster than Litellm at p99▲ 8💬 1
  Story by havercosine · 2025-08-07
• 50× faster than LiteLLM: Bifrost is a Go-based LLM gateway built for scale.▲ 5
  Story by PranayBatta · 2025-12-08
• Show HN: Bifrost – open-source LLM Gateway (50x lower latency than LiteLLM)▲ 3
  Story by dskuldeep · 2025-12-09

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