Top 5 AI Gateways for Enterprises
An AI gateway is easy to justify to engineers and hard to justify to a security review. Engineers ask about throughput and failover. The review asks who can call which model, who approved that, where the prompt went, and whether you can prove any of it six months later. Those questions are where the five gateways below actually differ, and they are what this comparison is organised around. TL;DR…
The comparison of five AI gateways for enterprises emphasizes the importance of five key requirements: Identity, Authorization, Auditability, Isolation, and Deployment control. These requirements can significantly impact the suitability of each gateway for an enterprise environment.
Bifrost stands out as the gateway with the most comprehensive audit and isolation features. Its audit logs record detailed information about who changed what, when, and which resource was affected, including action types, outcomes, initiators, targets, request paths, IPs, and durations. The logs are retained for 365 days by default and archived in S3 or GCS under user-defined lifecycle rules. This combination of signed, retained, and archived logs is crucial for compliance reviewers who need to verify audit logs.
Bifrost's isolation features are equally robust. User provisioning is handled through OIDC login and inbound SCIM 2.0, supporting authentication against various Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Okta, Entra, Keycloak, Zitadel, Google Workspace, Auth0, and any standards-compliant OIDC provider. Role-based access control (RBAC) allows for custom roles and row-level data access control, ensuring that developers on one team cannot access the keys, prompts, or routing rules of another team unless their role permits it.
Additionally, Bifrost implements data access control that filters row-level visibility by role, team, and identity, further enhancing isolation.
In terms of deployment control, Bifrost offers flexibility by allowing deployment on a self-hosted private network, traditional DB-less setup, or a hybrid configuration. This flexibility ensures that the gateway can be integrated into the enterprise's existing infrastructure with the desired level of control. LiteLLM and Cloudflare also have their strengths, such as wide provider coverage, centralized control plane, and prompt inspection, respectively.
However, Bifrost's specific focus on audit and isolation requirements makes it the most suitable choice for enterprises that prioritize compliance, security, and fine-grained control over their AI gateway infrastructure.
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