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Bifrost brings AI traffic routing, governance, and security into an enterprise gateway and control plane. It gives teams one OpenAI-compatible API for 20+ providers, with weighted load balancing, retries, provider failover, and semantic caching. Virtual keys can set permissions, budgets, rate limits, and routing per consumer. It also connects MCP tool servers and provides request monitoring, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTelemetry tracing integrations. OSS is free forever and self-hosted; Enterprise has custom pricing and a 14-day trial, with controls such as SSO, audit logs, guardrails, and private VPC deployments.
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Routerly
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Self-hosted routing with cost tracking and project isolation — Routerly adds nine routing policies, per-token cost tracking, and project-level isolation, while Bifrost includes MCP support and semantic caching.
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YoloRouter
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Protocol translation and image or video APIs — YoloRouter translates among OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini protocols and exposes image and video APIs, unlike Bifrost's API scope.
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Envoy AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+1Envoy-based AI and agent traffic management — Envoy AI Gateway uses Envoy and adds MCP tool routing with OAuth, while Bifrost offers virtual-key governance and semantic caching.
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Kong Gateway
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1General API gateway deployment across environments — Kong Gateway is a general API gateway with plugins and Kubernetes-native configuration, rather than Bifrost's AI-specific control plane.
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SGLang
Free plan APILinuxMac+1Serving models on supported hardware — SGLang serves language, vision-language, and diffusion models on varied hardware, while Bifrost routes traffic among providers.
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TensorZero
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1Gateway workflows with experimentation and SQL data access — TensorZero combines its gateway with evaluations, experiments, and SQL-accessible data, but it is no longer maintained.
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Eden AI
Paid APIWebBroad model access across specialized AI tasks — Eden AI offers access to 500+ models, including OCR, speech, vision, and translation, while Bifrost focuses on AI traffic control.
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LLM Gateway
Free plan Open source APIExtensionLinux+2 - 9
Manifest
Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 10
Helicone
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 11
LangSmith
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 12
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Free plan APIWeb - 13
LiteLLM
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 14
Apache APISIX
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted - 15
Inference Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 16
Orq.ai
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb7.1 Visit site - 17
Polyrouter
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 18
TrueFoundry AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 19
OpenRouter
Free plan APIWeb - 20
Requesty
Free plan APIExtensionWeb - 21
Ramp Router
Free plan APIWeb6.9 Visit site - 22
Tyk AI Studio Proxy
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 23
WSO2 AI Gateway
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 24
UniterRouter
Free plan APIWeb - 25
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vLLM Semantic Router
Free plan APILinuxMac+1
A switch may make sense if you need a different mix of routing policies, protocols, model serving, or deployment controls. Routerly emphasizes cost tracking and project isolation, while YoloRouter adds protocol translation and image and video APIs. Envoy AI Gateway brings Envoy-based traffic management, and SGLang serves models on supported hardware. Kong is a general API gateway; TensorZero combines a gateway with experimentation but is no longer maintained. Compare provider and protocol support, access controls, monitoring, deployment, maintenance, and price against the needs of your workloads.