What is LLM Orchestration? A Complete Guide

LLM orchestration is the management layer that coordinates multiple large language models, handles routing decisions, manages failovers, controls costs, and enforces governance across AI infrastructure. Without orchestration, teams manually manage provider APIs, handle outages reactively, and lack centralized control. This guide explains LLM orchestration and how to implement it using a gateway called Bifrost. 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 f