Forge Gateway

The Intelligent AI Gateway

Route, secure, observe, and monetize your AI workloads across 14+ LLM providers. One API endpoint, enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero vendor lock-in.

What is Forge?

Forge is a unified AI gateway that sits between your application and every major LLM provider. Instead of integrating directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and dozens of others, you integrate once with Forge. It handles intelligent routing to pick the best model for each request, persistent memory so conversations carry context across providers, a seven-layer security pipeline to protect against prompt injection and data leakage, built-in observability for cost and quality tracking, and native micropayments so you can monetize your AI features from day one.

Think of it as a smart reverse proxy for LLMs, but with memory, security, billing, and orchestration built directly into the request path. Your existing code works immediately because Forge exposes a fully OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL and API key.

14+
LLM Providers
7
Security Layers
3
Memory Layers
55
MCP Modules
16+
Routing Algorithms
14+
API Frameworks

Core Capabilities

Every layer of Forge is purpose-built for production AI workloads. Each capability works independently and compounds when used together.

Intelligent Routing

Route requests across 14+ LLM providers with cascading intent classification, ELO-scored quality routing, and automatic failover. RouteLLM delivers 85% cost reduction at sub-5ms latency via ONNX inference.

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Three-Layer Memory

Persistent memory across conversations and providers. Vector search via Qdrant, graph relationships via Neo4j and Graphiti, and real-time state via Redis CRDTs. Graceful degradation to Turso when services are unavailable.

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Seven-Layer Security

ForgeGuard pipeline with SpiceDB authorization, LlamaFirewall input scanning, DeBERTa-v3 semantic analysis, Presidio PII detection, Augustus adversarial probing, and MCP supply chain verification.

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x402 Payments

Native x402 V2 micropayments for per-request billing, plus Stripe bridge for traditional subscriptions. Credit packs with volume bonuses, themed bundles, and 55-module a la carte billing.

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Observability

Self-hosted Langfuse tracing on every request. OpenTelemetry-compatible telemetry, cost analytics, latency percentiles, and per-agent dashboards. Integrated with Opik for experiment tracking.

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Universal Compatibility

Drop-in OpenAI-compatible API that works with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and 14+ other frameworks. Switch providers without changing a single line of application code.

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One API call. Every provider.

Forge exposes a fully OpenAI-compatible API. Set model to "auto" and Forge picks the optimal provider based on cost, quality, and latency. Or specify a model directly like "claude-opus-4-20250514" for explicit routing.

The optional forge object lets you enable semantic caching, set security levels, attach memory sessions, and control routing priority. Every parameter is optional and backward-compatible.

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curl -X POST https://api.optima-forge.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Analyze this contract"}],
    "forge": {
      "cache": true,
      "security": "strict",
      "memory": { "session": "ctx_abc123" },
      "priority": "quality"
    }
  }'

Explore Forge in Depth

Dive into each subsystem to understand how Forge handles routing, memory, security, payments, observability, and more.

Routing

Cascading classifiers, RouteLLM, quality scoring, failover

Memory

Vector, graph, and state layers with cross-provider continuity

Security

ForgeGuard 7-layer pipeline and OWASP Agentic Top 10

Payments

x402 micropayments, Stripe bridge, credit packs, bundles

Observability

Langfuse tracing, OpenTelemetry, cost and latency analytics

Compatibility

OpenAI-compatible API for 14+ frameworks and all major providers

Enterprise

SSO, Zanzibar permissions, compliance, data residency

Start building with Forge today

Free tier includes 1,000 requests per month, semantic caching, and full security pipeline. No credit card required.

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