Bifrost vs OpenZiti LLM Gateway
Bifrost
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| Figure | Bifrost | OpenZiti LLM Gateway |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · LLM Gateway Software | 9.0 (#2) | 7.4 (#28) |
| Spec score · LLM gateways | 9.0 (#4) | 7.1 (#27) |
| Deployment | Bifrost can run as a self-hosted binary or through npx, Docker and Kubernetes, including private-cloud and disconnected environments. | The project describes deployment as one Go binary and one YAML file, with no database, message queue, or sidecar required. |
| Intended users | The OSS edition is presented for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments, while Enterprise is for teams running production AI systems at scale. | The README describes routing across local inference servers and remote providers, including GPU servers behind NAT and clients using OpenAI-compatible libraries. |
| Observability | Built-in observability includes OpenTelemetry support and a dashboard for request monitoring. | When enabled, Prometheus-exported metrics include request counts, latency, token counts, routing decisions, provider errors, and endpoint health. |
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In their own words
Bifrost
Bifrost is an AI gateway and control plane for directing, governing, and securing traffic involving model calls, MCP tools, and agents. It connects to more than 20 AI providers through one OpenAI-compatible API. Routing tools include weighted load balancing, retries, automatic provider failover, and semantic caching. Virtual keys let teams apply permissions, budgets, rate limits, and routing rules by consumer. Bifrost can connect with external MCP servers and present their tools to clients such as Claude Desktop. Its documented SDK integrations include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GenAI, LiteLLM, and LangChain. Request monitoring, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTelemetry tracing integrations provide observability. The free OSS edition is for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments; it can run via NPX, Docker, Kubernetes, or Go binary. Enterprise adds SSO, role-based access, audit logs, guardrails, vault integrations, and private VPC deployments. Enterprise pricing is custom, with a 14-day trial on an enterprise license.
OpenZiti LLM Gateway
OpenZiti LLM Gateway has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.