# Bifrost

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bifrost/  
**Website:** https://www.getmaxim.ai/bifrost/enterprise  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Bifrost is a high-performance open-source AI gateway that unifies access to 20+ AI providers through a single OpenAI-compatible API. It supports 1,000+ models with adaptive load balancing, automatic failover, semantic caching, and enterprise observability features. Bifrost is open-source under Apache 2.0.

## Kin Score — 46.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 21.0 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 61.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 65.8 |
| Access Clarity | 65.8 |

## Agent readiness — 47.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Bifrost Go SDK** — The Bifrost Go SDK provides a native Go client for embedding the Bifrost AI gateway directly into Go applications using the github.com/maximhq/bifrost/core package.
- **Bifrost MCP Gateway** — The Bifrost Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway enables AI agents to discover and execute external tools through a standardized protocol, with OAuth 2.0 authentication and tool...
- **Bifrost Chat API** — Chat completions compatible with OpenAI chat API
- **Bifrost Health API** — Gateway health and status endpoints

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bifrost Agentic Access** — 3 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

- **Bifrost Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Bifrost Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Bifrost Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Bifrost Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Multi-Provider AI Applications** — Build applications that can seamlessly switch between OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers.
- **Cost Optimization** — Route requests to cheaper providers during peak costs or use caching to reduce API spend.
- **High Availability AI** — Ensure AI features remain available by failing over across multiple provider accounts.
- **AI Agent Tooling** — Enable AI agents to discover and execute tools through the MCP gateway protocol.
- **LLM Provider Evaluation** — A/B test different models and providers without changing application code.

## Tags

AI Gateway, LLM, Load Balancing, Open-Source, OpenAI-Compatible, MCP

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bifrost/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.