Vidai – AI Gateway Written in Rust Community Edition Released

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.

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.