One governed door for all your agents
Your agents' keys, tool calls, budgets, and audit trail belong on your server.
Host agentgateway or Bifrost on a European VPS.
Starting at €5.00/mo
What is an MCP gateway?
An MCP gateway is the proxy between your AI agents and everything they use: LLM providers, MCP tool servers, and other agents. Every request flows through one governed door that handles authentication, routing, failover, rate limits, cost budgets, and audit logging. Agents stop carrying their own keys; you get one place to see what happened, one place to cut access, one bill to understand. It is the nginx of the agent era, and like nginx, it belongs on a server that never sleeps.
The two gateways worth hosting
Both open source, both compiled and lightweight, different philosophies. Figures checked July 2026.
| agentgateway | Bifrost | |
|---|---|---|
| Built as | Rust proxy, Apache-2.0, about 3.8k stars | Go binary, about 6.5k stars |
| Protocols | MCP and A2A natively, plus an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway with budget and spend controls | OpenAI-compatible API in front of 1,000+ models, plus MCP gateway modes |
| Distinctive strengths | Tool federation across MCP servers, OAuth for tools, multi-layer guardrails, Kubernetes-native options | Single binary, adaptive load balancing, cluster mode, guardrails; its maintainers claim under 100 microseconds of overhead at 5k RPS |
| Getting started | Standalone quickstart in the official docs | One command, running in about 30 seconds (below) |
| Pick it when | You need protocol depth, federation, and infrastructure-grade governance | You want the whole thing running before your coffee cools |
Sources: github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway · github.com/maximhq/bifrost
From zero to gateway
Bifrost's official quickstart, on a fresh VPS. For agentgateway, follow the standalone quickstart in its docs.
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 maximhq/bifrost ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 you@your.server.ip Note the 127.0.0.1 binding: a gateway holds your provider keys, so it should never listen on a public interface without authentication in front.
Pick your gateway VPS
Compiled proxies need little. Both gateways run comfortably next to your agents on the same server.
Gateway only
A dedicated box for the proxy alone.
€0.0070/hr
- 1 vCPU
- 1 GB RAM
- 20 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps
Gateway + agents
The proxy plus a personal agent stack.
€0.0167/hr
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps
Team stack
Gateway, agents, and room to grow.
€0.0333/hr
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 80 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps
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Own your agents' plumbing
One gateway, one audit trail, one server in Europe. Hourly billing to try it this afternoon.