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antirion

⚡ The fastest open-source AI gateway — one Rust binary with a built-in console to route, secure, budget and observe every LLM call across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock and more.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 152 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views

Niche: llm routing and gateway tools · 143 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -62% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • a2a
  • ai-gateway
  • anthropic
  • api-gateway
  • bifrost-alternative
  • guardrails
  • +12 more

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic multi-provider LLM proxy with routing, keys, and an admin UI is vibe-codeable, but the claimed sub-millisecond overhead, full dialect translation including streaming, and benchmark-level performance require serious systems engineering.

What it would actually take: Build it in an async systems language (Rust with tokio/hyper, or Go) with a streaming-aware HTTP core and connection pooling. The hard parts are translating between provider wire formats (especially SSE streaming and tool calls) without buffering, and tuning allocation and concurrency to reach the claimed latency and throughput. That needs experience with low-latency network servers and load-testing methodology, not just AI-generated code.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #30 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.

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