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maximhq/bifrost

maximhq/bifrost is a developer tool that RepoRadar is tracking in its AI Gateway section, currently rated Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.4 out of 10.

Score8.3
Popularity80.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty7.0
Momentum9.0
Maturity8.2
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.4
Setup ease8.8

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for platform and infra teams that need one gateway fronting every model provider with failover, load balancing, and observability already wired in. Install via `npx -y @maximhq/bifrost` or Docker, point your OpenAI-compatible clients at http://localhost:8080, and route by model prefix (openai/, anthropic/, bedrock/).

Who should use it

platform teams that want one OpenAI-compatible endpoint fronting every model provider SRE / infra engineers building failover and load balancing for LLM traffic engineering teams tired of hand-rolling LiteLLM wrappers and provider-specific retry logic compliance teams that need a single chokepoint to enforce prompt / response guardrails product teams running semantic caching to cut repeat-prompt costs

Who should skip it

Consider maximhq/bifrost lower priority if you already have a working solution in this category.

About this signal

maximhq/bifrost is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the AI Gateway section. First seen 2026-06-17; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-17. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and easy setup difficulty. Across RepoRadar's eight signals, maximhq/bifrost is strongest on workflow potential (9.4) and practical usefulness (9.0) and weakest on novelty (7.0) — a profile worth weighing against your own priorities. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The maximhq/bifrost record combines a 8.3/10 composite score with separate popularity (80.0), risk (conditional), and setup (easy) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

API keys for every provider pass through the gateway — treat the gateway as a credentialed service and follow standard secret-management practices; claims of '50x faster than LiteLLM' are vendor benchmarks; validate against your own workload before committing.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
ai-gateway litellm-alternative openai-compatible failover load-balancing semantic-cache guardrails go
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

48 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-17 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.3 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.6 current · +0.6 net
GitHub stars (observed)7,292 current · +810 net
GitHub stars7,292 exact observation
Versiontransports/v2.0.0-prerelease3
Last release2026-08-13T18:51:20Z
Maintenanceactive
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineNo structured integrations recorded

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.39.67,292conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-128.39.67,262conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-118.39.67,221conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-108.39.67,187conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-098.39.67,161conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-088.39.67,143conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-078.39.66,993conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-068.39.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.39.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.39.66,993conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-038.39.66,993conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-028.39.66,968conditionaltry nowactive

Why the record changed

version changed

Version changed: core/v1.7.8 → transports/v2.0.0-prerelease3.

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Stars changed: 7262 → 7292.

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Version changed: ent-v1.5.9-base → core/v1.7.8.

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Stars changed: 6993 → 7143.

version changed

Version changed: helm-chart-v2.1.33 → ent-v1.5.9-base.

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Stars changed: 6968 → 6993.

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Stars changed: 6954 → 6968.

stars changed

Source-observed stars changed: 6943 → 6954. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.