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AI · June 26, 2026

Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway

Hey HNers - Riz here. I got together with a few guys and we built an LLM gateway. It's designed for small teams working on early-stage products, and can be deployed to AWS using a single command (i.e. `mantis deploy`). It's self-hosted, and is designed to belong to you.

Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway launched on June 26, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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An open-source, self-hosted LLM gateway providing a single interface for interacting with multiple LLMs - Mantis

Mantis is an open-source, self-hosted LLM gateway for teams building applications across multiple model targets. It gives client applications one stable chat-completions API while centralizing routing policy, failover behavior, response caching, guardrails, observability, and AWS deployment configuration. The project is designed for small teams that want the benefits of an LLM gateway without giving up control of their infrastructure or data. Mantis exists to make multi-LLM application development more reliable, observable, and operationally manageable. Instead of spreading provider-specific logic across application code, teams can put model routing, cache policy, failover behavior,…from github.com

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