Bifrost
Bifrost is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support… It has 8,591 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @maximhq/bifrost.
- AI & search
- Apache-2.0
- Actively maintained
Install Bifrost
Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"bifrost": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@maximhq/bifrost"
]
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport stdio bifrost -- npx -y @maximhq/bifrostCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"bifrost": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@maximhq/bifrost"
]
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"servers": {
"bifrost": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@maximhq/bifrost"
]
}
}
}Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).
About Bifrost
Bifrost is a high-performance AI gateway that unifies access to 23+ 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.
- gateway
- llm
- llm-gateway
- mcp-client
- mcp-server
- guardrails
- mcp-gateway
- ai-gateway
- gateway-services
- generative-ai
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What is Bifrost?
Bifrost is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support… It has 8,591 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @maximhq/bifrost. The source code is at github.com/maximhq/bifrost.
How do I install the Bifrost MCP server?
Add the command npx -y @maximhq/bifrost to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.
Is Bifrost free?
The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.
Is Bifrost actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Oct 7, 2026. The latest release is ent-v2.2.6-base, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.