Bifrost is the fastest, open-source LLM gateway with built-in MCP support, dynamic plugin architecture, and integrated governance. With a clean UI, Bifrost is 40x faster than LiteLLM, and plugs in with Maxim for e2e evals and observability of your AI products.
Hello PH community, I am Akshay from Maxim, and today we’re excited to officially announce the launch of Bifrost, a blazing-fast LLM gateway built for scale.
What is it?
Bifrost is the fastest, fully open-source LLM gateway that takes <30 seconds to set up. Written in pure Go (A+ code quality report), it is a product of deep engineering focus with performance optimized at every level of the architecture. It supports 1000+ models across providers via a single API.
What are the key features?
Robust governance: Rotate and manage API keys efficiently with weighted distribution, ensuring responsible and efficient use of models across multiple teams
Plugin first architecture: No callback hell, simple addition/creation of custom plugins
MCP integration: Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for external tool integration and execution
The best part? It plugs in seamlessly with Maxim, giving end-to-end observability, governance, and evals empowering AI teams -- from start-ups to enterprises -- to ship AI products with the reliability and speed required for real-world use.
Why now?
At Maxim, our internal experiments with multiple gateways for our production use cases quickly exposed scale as a bottleneck. And we weren’t alone. Fast-moving AI teams echoed the same frustration – LLM gateway speed and scalability were key pain points. They valued flexibility and speed, but not at the cost of efficiency at scale.
That’s why we built Bifrost—a high-performance, fully self-hosted LLM gateway that delivers on all fronts. With just 11μsoverhead at 5,000 RPS, it's 40x faster than LiteLLM.
You can get started today at getmaxim.ai/bifrost and join the discussion on Bifrost Discord. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].
About Bifrost on Product Hunt
“The fastest LLM gateway in the market”
Bifrost launched on Product Hunt on August 6th, 2025 and earned 575 upvotes and 43 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Bifrost is the fastest, open-source LLM gateway with built-in MCP support, dynamic plugin architecture, and integrated governance. With a clean UI, Bifrost is 40x faster than LiteLLM, and plugs in with Maxim for e2e evals and observability of your AI products.
On the analytics side, Bifrost competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Bifrost performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Bifrost?
Bifrost was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Chris Messina
Hello PH community, I am Akshay from Maxim, and today we’re excited to officially announce the launch of Bifrost, a blazing-fast LLM gateway built for scale.
What is it?
Bifrost is the fastest, fully open-source LLM gateway that takes <30 seconds to set up. Written in pure Go (A+ code quality report), it is a product of deep engineering focus with performance optimized at every level of the architecture. It supports 1000+ models across providers via a single API.
What are the key features?
Robust governance: Rotate and manage API keys efficiently with weighted distribution, ensuring responsible and efficient use of models across multiple teams
Plugin first architecture: No callback hell, simple addition/creation of custom plugins
MCP integration: Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for external tool integration and execution
The best part? It plugs in seamlessly with Maxim, giving end-to-end observability, governance, and evals empowering AI teams -- from start-ups to enterprises -- to ship AI products with the reliability and speed required for real-world use.
Why now?
At Maxim, our internal experiments with multiple gateways for our production use cases quickly exposed scale as a bottleneck. And we weren’t alone. Fast-moving AI teams echoed the same frustration – LLM gateway speed and scalability were key pain points. They valued flexibility and speed, but not at the cost of efficiency at scale.
That’s why we built Bifrost—a high-performance, fully self-hosted LLM gateway that delivers on all fronts. With just 11μs overhead at 5,000 RPS, it's 40x faster than LiteLLM.
We benchmarked it against leading LLM gateways - here’s the report.
How to get started?
You can get started today at getmaxim.ai/bifrost and join the discussion on Bifrost Discord. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].