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Maxim AI

Maxim AI provides AI gateways, governance, evaluation, and observability software for developers and enterprises operating AI applications.

StageUndisclosed

Founded2023

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Bifrost Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Bifrost routes requests across AI model providers through a unified API with access controls, guardrails, and observability.

• Maxim Platform Sold on its own

  Maxim provides simulation, evaluation, and observability for AI agents and applications.

Inside Bifrost

• Bifrost Edge Application Paid add-on to the parent Demonstrated, not sold

  A lightweight service that runs on employee laptops (macOS, Windows, Linux) and routes the traffic of AI tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT and Copilot through the Bifrost Gateway, so governance, guardrails, budgets and access controls apply to shadow AI.

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LLiteLLMEarly-stageBifrost and AI Gateway (LiteLLM Proxy) both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTrueFoundryEarly-stageBifrost and TrueFoundry MCP Gateway both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFiddler AILate-stageBifrost Edge and Fiddler AI Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAArthur AIEarly-stageBifrost Edge and Arthur Agent Security & Governance both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRequestyEarly-stageBifrost and Requesty AI Gateway both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareJJFrogPublicBifrost Edge and JFrog Agent Guard both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGuild.aiUndisclosedBifrost and Guild agent control plane both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform and developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDatabricksLate-stageBifrost and Unity Gateway both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSplunkAcquiredBifrost Edge and Agent and Model Evaluation both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; Splunk is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatadogPublicBifrost and Agent Observability both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLaminarEarly-stageMaxim and Laminar both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAutomation AnywhereUndisclosedBifrost and EnterpriseClaw both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRAResemble AIEarly-stageBifrost Edge and Resemble Signal both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMem0Early-stageBifrost Edge and Gateway both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLangWatchUndisclosedMaxim and LangWatch Instant Evals both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHoneyHiveEarly-stageMaxim and HoneyHive both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLunaryUndisclosedMaxim and Lunary both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOktaPublicBifrost and Okta for AI Agents both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCyeraLate-stageBifrost Edge and Cyera Identity both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTuringLate-stageBifrost Edge and Turing Intelligence Platform both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; ships agent platform and data service rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDataikuLate-stageBifrost and Dataiku LLM Mesh both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRespanEarly-stageBifrost and Respan both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAArize AIUndisclosedMaxim and Signal both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPromptLayerEarly-stageMaxim and PromptLayer Observability both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerComparePAPalo Alto NetworksPublicBifrost Edge and Prisma AIRS Agent Security both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenRouterLate-stageMaxim and Ori Eval both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTolokaUndisclosedBifrost Edge and Toloka Platform both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareASAI SpendOpsUndisclosedBifrost and AI SpendOps both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepchecksAbsorbedOverlaps on evaluation and observability; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; Deepchecks is absorbed, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMastraEarly-stageMaxim and Mastra Studio both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZapierLate-stageBifrost Edge and AI Guardrails by Zapier both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLangChainLate-stageMaxim and LangSmith Chat both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageBifrost and AssemblyAI LLM Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSamaUndisclosedBifrost Edge and Sama GenAI both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCMComet MLEarly-stageOverlaps on evaluation and observability; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIBMPublicBifrost Edge and IBM watsonx.governance both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHAHume AIUndisclosedMaxim and User Testing API both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSAPPublicBifrost Edge and SAP AI Agent Hub both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePParloaLate-stageMaxim and Parloa Performance Lab both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublicMaxim and Foundry Control Plane both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoreWeavePublicMaxim and CoreWeave Forge both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareITInvisible TechnologiesLate-stageBifrost and Synapse both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWorkdayPublicBifrost and Agent Harness both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHarnessLate-stageBifrost Edge and AI Posture both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublicBifrost Edge and NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSServiceNowPublicBifrost Edge and AI Control Tower both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEAEnkrypt AIAcquiredBifrost Edge and Enkrypt AI both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; Enkrypt AI is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSalesforcePublicBifrost Edge and MuleSoft Agent Fabric both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Late-stageBifrost Edge and Glean AI Gateway both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZscalerPublicBifrost Edge and Secure Access to AI both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrowdStrikePublicBifrost Edge and Falcon Guardian both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRogoLate-stageBifrost Edge and Watchtower both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTrimioUndisclosedBifrost and Trimio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVEVolcano EngineUndisclosedBifrost and LLM Application Firewall (大模型应用防火墙) both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHAHippocratic AILate-stageBifrost Edge and AI Call Supervisor both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCore42UndisclosedBifrost and Core42 Compass both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareFFortinetPublicBifrost and FortiAIGate both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSentinelOnePublicBifrost Edge and Prompt Security both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiddenLayerEarly-stageBifrost Edge and HiddenLayer AI Discovery both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredOverlaps on evaluation and observability; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNDNot DiamondUndisclosedBifrost and Not Diamond both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and developer tool rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareNGNebius GroupPublicBifrost and Nebius Token Factory both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrusoeLate-stageOverlaps on evaluation and observability; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEAEden AIEarly-stageBifrost and Eden AI both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareVVectaraEarly-stageBifrost and Vectara Guardian Agents both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOraclePublicBifrost and OCI Enterprise AI both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCiscoPublicBifrost Edge and Cisco AI Defense both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AILate-stageBifrost and Together Inference both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareMModularAcquiredBifrost and Modular Cloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Maxim AI's scale not recorded; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareWWriterLate-stageBifrost Edge and WRITER AI Studio both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAnthropicLate-stageBifrost Edge and Claude Security both list guardrails and safety; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudUndisclosedBifrost and Papago Translation both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareTTThe Token CompanyUndisclosedBifrost and The Token Company LLM input compression both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareJJasperUndisclosedBifrost Edge and Jasper Brand IQ both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecagonLate-stageMaxim and Experiments both serve buyers who need to test and evaluate an AI agent; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AILate-stageBifrost and Fireworks Nexus both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Maxim AI's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompare

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Total funding

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Valuation

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Founded

Company disclosure · 14 Oct 2026

"Parent company Maxim AI founded in 2023."

Public listing

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No listing on the pages read; treated as private.

Description

Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026

Company page: "provides AI infrastructure software and related services"

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