# Vidai – AI Gateway Written in Rust Community Edition Released

> Source: <https://vidai.uk/community/>
> Published: 2026-05-29 18:39:35+00:00

Community Edition · Free, no expiry

# Run the full control plane, free.

Vidai 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.

- 1
### Sign in

At

[portal.vidai.uk](https://portal.vidai.uk). Generate your`vidai.license`

file and your free rate-card credentials. - 2
### Download

The latest release tarball and the cosign signature from

[github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart](https://github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart/releases/latest). - 3
### Run

Verify the signature, drop your licence file in, run

`./setup.sh`

and`./vidai start`

. Dashboard at`http://localhost`

.

What you get

## The full production gateway, not a stripped trial.

Community is the same binary that runs in paying customers' regulated production deployments. Your `vidai.license`

file decides which features unlock; the Community licence unlocks the gateway and cost-engine essentials.

### Gateway & routing

Multi-provider with fallback. Bidirectional native translation across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google SDKs. Routing rules.

### Cost engine

Every 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.

### Guardrails

Regex guardrails: block, mask, redirect, log-only. ML guardrails are an Enterprise feature.

### Teams & rate limits

Teams, applications, API key issuance, per-key and per-team rate limits.

### Rate-card server

Free public rate-card service, refreshed on a standard cadence, credentials in the portal alongside your licence. Best-effort SLA.

### Request logs

Every request logged with the everyday audit surface. Compliance routing and the full audit-grade ledger live at Scale.

For the full feature breakdown across Community / Scale / Enterprise, see [pricing](/pricing).

If your organisation needs more

## Same binary. Different needs.

Community 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.

Scale and Enterprise are contact-led. Start a conversation at [/contact](/contact).

Runs anywhere with a CPU

## 25 MB. One binary. Inside your network.

Your 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.

[Install instructions on GitHub](https://github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart/releases/latest)

Download, cosign-verify, drop in your `vidai.license`

, run `./setup.sh`

. Full reference inside the tarball and at [docs.vidai.uk](https://docs.vidai.uk).

The fine print, plainly

## Commercial use is by approval.

Vidai 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.

The full licence text lives at [/legal/community-licence](/legal/community-licence) and ships in every distribution tarball as `LICENSE-COMMUNITY`

.

## Two steps. Free. Yours.

Sign in to the portal, grab the tarball, run it inside your network.