Maxim AI

What is Maxim AI?

Maxim AI is the brand of H3 Labs Inc., which develops Bifrost, an enterprise LLM, MCP and agent gateway released under the Apache 2.0 license. Bifrost routes requests across more than 8 providers and 1000+ models through a drop-in API. The vendor says over 1,000 teams use it.

Key capabilities of Maxim AI

• Multi-provider routing: access to 8+ providers and 1000+ models through one gateway
• Drop-in SDK replacement: works as a replacement for OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain and Google Genai clients
• MCP gateway: connects agents to tools through Model Context Protocol
• Automatic fallbacks: provider failover with a claimed 99.99% uptime
• Governance: budgets by team or virtual key, SSO access control and audit logging
• Semantic caching: reuses responses to similar prompts

How Maxim AI works

Applications point their existing OpenAI-style or SDK calls at Bifrost. The gateway selects a provider, applies budgets, virtual keys and guardrails, falls back to another provider on failure, and exports telemetry through OpenTelemetry. The vendor claims 20 microseconds of added latency and 5,000 requests per second, and positions it as 54x faster than LiteLLM at P99.

Who uses Maxim AI?

Platform and AI engineering teams that run production LLM applications use Bifrost to centralize provider access and cost control. Self-hosting suits teams that want Docker, Kubernetes or a Go binary.

Maxim AI pricing

Bifrost OSS is free to self-host. Bifrost Enterprise has custom pricing and adds VPC, on-premises and air-gapped deployment, SAML/OIDC SSO, role-based access control, clustering and guardrails. A 14-day Enterprise trial is available on request.

Maxim AI alternatives

Maxim AI is compared with Requesty, Hamming AI and Cekura in the AI tooling space. LiteLLM is the gateway Bifrost benchmarks against; Requesty also routes across LLM providers, while Hamming AI and Cekura focus on voice agent testing.