Show HN: Bifrost – High-performance AI gateway
4 points · Open discussionbifrost
Open-source, high-performance AI gateway that works as your LLM gateway, MCP gateway and agent gateway. One OpenAI-compatible API for 10,000+ models, with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, virtual keys, budgets and MCP Code Mode. Works with any SDK or agent and adds under 200µs of overhead at 5k RPS.
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Open-source, high-performance AI gateway that works as your LLM gateway, MCP gateway and agent gateway. One OpenAI-compatible API for 10,000+ models, with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, virtual keys, budgets and MCP Code Mode. Works with any SDK or agent and adds under 200µs of overhead at 5k RPS.
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| Aug 2025 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Sep 2025 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
24 sourcesI Found One Interesting Open Source GitHub Gem
3 points · Open discussionThe worst part of using multiple LLM providers is not the API differences
1 points · Open discussionI thought an LLM gateway was unnecessary. Then we added a second model provider
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: A model router should also provide a MCP gateway
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Show HN: Bifrost: Enterprise MCP Gateway with Built-In Security: OAuth 2.0, RBAC
1 points · Open discussionIs Hermes Agent unusable without a model router?
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: Changed how I use agent harnesses
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Show HN: Fastest Enterprise AI Gateway
2 points · Open discussionBifrost CLI and Codex CLI: One Command to Set Up OpenAI Agent with Any Model
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: Bifrost: Fastest enterprise AI gateway
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