Using Bifrost as Unified Gateway for vLLM and OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints

Self-hosted models (vLLM, Ollama, TGI) and cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) require different configurations, API formats, and management. Bifrost provides a single unified interface for both—enabling seamless routing between self-hosted and cloud models without application code changes. This guide shows how to configure Bifrost as a unified gateway for vLLM, Ollama, and cloud providers. maximhq / bifrost Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS. Bifrost AI Gateway The fastest way to build AI applications that never go down Bifrost is a high-performance AI gateway that unifies access to 15+ providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, and more) through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Deploy in seconds with zero configuration and get automatic failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and enterprise-grade features. Quick Start Go from zero to producti