Respan Launches Open-Source Rust AI Gateway Built on a Plugin Architecture
Respan, a Y Combinator W24 startup, has launched an open-source AI gateway written in Rust that uses a small core with everything else built as plugins. The design covers LLM providers, protocols such as MCP and voice, modalities like images and video, and features including fallbacks, PII redaction, and smart routing. The company says it grew out of a wrapper around LiteLLM that became hard to maintain, and that a failed LiteLLM upgrade in January led it to redesign the gateway. Developers can add their own providers and features as plugins without changing the core, and the gateway translates between API formats so applications can use models from other vendors. The project is inspired by Nginx's minimal-core approach.
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