Bifrost Alternatives: When to Self-Host and When to Use a Managed Gateway

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Choosing a Bifrost alternative starts with one question: do you want different gateway software, or do you want someone else to operate the gateway?

Those are different purchases. Moving between self-hosted gateways may change compatibility or configuration, but your team still owns deployment, upgrades and incident response. A managed service changes who runs the service. It still needs to support the requests your application sends.

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