Bifrost
Bifrost routes requests across AI model providers through a unified API with access controls, guardrails, and observability.
What it does
- Evaluation and observability
- Guardrails and safety
Features 8
- Model CatalogAccess 8+ providers and 1000+ AI models through a unified interface, including custom deployed models.
- BudgetingSet spending limits and track costs across teams, projects and models.
- Provider FallbackAutomatic failover between providers for uptime.
- MCP GatewayCentralizes MCP tool connections, governance, security and auth with policy enforcement.
- Virtual Key ManagementVirtual keys for different use cases, each with independent budgets and access control.
- Drop-in ReplacementReplace an existing SDK with a one-line change; compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, LiteLLM, Google Genai and LangChain.
- Built-in ObservabilityOut-of-the-box OpenTelemetry support and a built-in dashboard.
- GuardrailsReal-time model protection that blocks unsafe outputs and enforces compliance.
Sources
- Pricing
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Pricing page: a free, open-source self-hosted edition and an Enterprise edition at custom pricing.; "Free Forever OSS"; "Custom Pricing Enterprise"
- Description
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Product page: "One consistent API for all providers."
- What it does
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Product page: "One consistent API for all providers."
- Sold within
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Open-source download or Enterprise by quote; nothing stands above it.; "Free Forever OSS"
- Name
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Name as published on the product page.
- URL
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Product page, read 2026-10-14.
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Product page: "Run Bifrost in air-gapped environments - on-prem, in-VPC, or hybrid."
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Product page: "Run Bifrost in air-gapped environments - on-prem, in-VPC, or hybrid."
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Bifrost Edge Application
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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