AI Gateway

Managing LLM Traffic: Understanding and Applying Rate Limits

Managing LLM Traffic: Understanding and Applying Rate Limits

TL;DR: Every LLM provider caps requests and tokens per minute (RPM and TPM). Crossing a cap returns a 429 error that halts the request, and in production these become a top source of failed requests and stalled agent runs.Managing LLM traffic means handling two things at once: provider

Best LLM Gateways for Cost Control: Budgets & Alerts (2026)

Best LLM Gateways for Cost Control: Budgets & Alerts (2026)

TL;DR * The best LLM gateway for cost control enforces spend limits before a request reaches a provider, not after the invoice arrives, using per-key budgets, token and request rate limits, and usage alerts. * Bifrost enforces hierarchical budgets across customers, teams, virtual keys, and provider configs, so a runaway

Top 5 Strategies to Reduce LLM Token Usage and Costs

Top 5 Strategies to Reduce LLM Token Usage and Costs

TL;DR: Token spend is the largest variable cost in production LLM applications, and it scales with every request, retry, and tool definition loaded into context.Caching is the highest-impact lever, because a cache hit skips the provider call entirely. Bifrost combines exact-match and semantic caching in one

How to Route Gemini CLI and Codex Through an AI Gateway

How to Route Gemini CLI and Codex Through an AI Gateway

TL;DR * Routing Gemini CLI and Codex CLI through an AI gateway means pointing each tool's base URL at the gateway instead of the provider, so every request runs through one control point for routing, cost tracking, and failover. * Gemini CLI routes through Bifrost by setting GOOGLE_GEMINI_

Cloudflare AI Gateway Alternatives and Competitors in 2026

Cloudflare AI Gateway Alternatives and Competitors in 2026

TL;DR * Teams evaluate Cloudflare AI Gateway alternatives when they need self-hosted deployment, deeper governance, and control over where LLM traffic runs, which a hosted edge proxy does not provide. * Bifrost, the open-source AI gateway from Maxim AI, is the top alternative to Cloudflare AI Gateway: it adds

Using Claude Code with any LLM through Bifrost, the enterprise AI gateway, with failover, governance, and cost control

Best Enterprise AI Gateway for Using Claude Code With Any LLM

TL;DR * Claude Code talks only to Anthropic by default, so a single provider's rate limits, outages, or compliance gaps become the whole team's problem. * An enterprise AI gateway sits between Claude Code and the providers, adding automatic failover, governance, observability, and the ability to swap

LLM Access Control: RBAC, SSO, and Virtual Keys for AI Traffic

LLM Access Control: RBAC, SSO, and Virtual Keys for AI Traffic

TL;DR: LLM access control determines which users, teams, and applications can call which models, under what budgets, and with what audit trail. As model and agent fleets grow, API keys and non-human identities multiply faster than teams can track manually. It combines identity (SSO), authorization (RBAC), spend limits