{"slug": "vidai-ai-gateway-written-in-rust-community-edition-released", "title": "Vidai – AI Gateway Written in Rust Community Edition Released", "summary": "Vidai has released the Community Edition of its AI gateway software, a free Rust binary that provides a full control plane for managing AI traffic within a user's own network. The software offers multi-provider routing, cost attribution, guardrails, and rate limiting, and is free for personal, evaluation, and non-commercial use, with commercial use requiring case-by-case approval. The release targets developers and organizations that need to run AI gateway capabilities inside their perimeter without a phone-home requirement.", "body_md": "Community Edition · Free, no expiry\n\n# Run the full control plane, free.\n\nVidai Community is the same Rust binary that runs in regulated production. Self-serve in two steps, runs inside your perimeter, on anything with a CPU. Free for personal, evaluation and non-commercial use; commercial use is by approval, granted case-by-case.\n\n- 1\n### Sign in\n\nAt\n\n[portal.vidai.uk](https://portal.vidai.uk). Generate your`vidai.license`\n\nfile and your free rate-card credentials. - 2\n### Download\n\nThe latest release tarball and the cosign signature from\n\n[github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart](https://github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart/releases/latest). - 3\n### Run\n\nVerify the signature, drop your licence file in, run\n\n`./setup.sh`\n\nand`./vidai start`\n\n. Dashboard at`http://localhost`\n\n.\n\nWhat you get\n\n## The full production gateway, not a stripped trial.\n\nCommunity is the same binary that runs in paying customers' regulated production deployments. Your `vidai.license`\n\nfile decides which features unlock; the Community licence unlocks the gateway and cost-engine essentials.\n\n### Gateway & routing\n\nMulti-provider with fallback. Bidirectional native translation across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google SDKs. Routing rules.\n\n### Cost engine\n\nEvery request priced the moment it returns and attributed to the user, key, team, app and model that spent it. Per-team budgets and spend circuits.\n\n### Guardrails\n\nRegex guardrails: block, mask, redirect, log-only. ML guardrails are an Enterprise feature.\n\n### Teams & rate limits\n\nTeams, applications, API key issuance, per-key and per-team rate limits.\n\n### Rate-card server\n\nFree public rate-card service, refreshed on a standard cadence, credentials in the portal alongside your licence. Best-effort SLA.\n\n### Request logs\n\nEvery request logged with the everyday audit surface. Compliance routing and the full audit-grade ledger live at Scale.\n\nFor the full feature breakdown across Community / Scale / Enterprise, see [pricing](/pricing).\n\nIf your organisation needs more\n\n## Same binary. Different needs.\n\nCommunity is complete for its persona: developers, evaluators, non-commercial use. The paid tiers are not \"Community plus extras\"; they are the same binary licensed for organisations whose AI traffic has to answer to a CFO controlling spend across teams, an auditor or regulator asking for evidence, or a CISO who needs a contract behind every feature.\n\nScale and Enterprise are contact-led. Start a conversation at [/contact](/contact).\n\nRuns anywhere with a CPU\n\n## 25 MB. One binary. Inside your network.\n\nYour VPC, on-prem, a laptop for evaluation, even a Raspberry Pi if you really want to. Provider-agnostic, framework-agnostic, no phone-home. Cost attribution, inline policy and audit happen on your perimeter, with the prompt content never leaving your network to make those decisions.\n\n[Install instructions on GitHub](https://github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart/releases/latest)\n\nDownload, cosign-verify, drop in your `vidai.license`\n\n, run `./setup.sh`\n\n. Full reference inside the tarball and at [docs.vidai.uk](https://docs.vidai.uk).\n\nThe fine print, plainly\n\n## Commercial use is by approval.\n\nVidai Community is free for personal, evaluation and non-commercial use without further approval. Commercial use (by or on behalf of a business, or in connection with a commercial product or service) requires our prior written approval, which we grant case-by-case. Email [[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#64080d07010a170d0a0324120d00050d4a110f) with a sentence about your use case.\n\nThe full licence text lives at [/legal/community-licence](/legal/community-licence) and ships in every distribution tarball as `LICENSE-COMMUNITY`\n\n.\n\n## Two steps. Free. Yours.\n\nSign in to the portal, grab the tarball, run it inside your network.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vidai-ai-gateway-written-in-rust-community-edition-released", "canonical_source": "https://vidai.uk/community/", "published_at": "2026-05-29 18:39:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 18:46:18.523406+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Vidai", "Vidai Community", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google", "GitHub", "portal.vidai.uk"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vidai-ai-gateway-written-in-rust-community-edition-released", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vidai-ai-gateway-written-in-rust-community-edition-released.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vidai-ai-gateway-written-in-rust-community-edition-released.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vidai-ai-gateway-written-in-rust-community-edition-released.jsonld"}}