Vidai UK

What Vidai UK does

Vidai UK Limited is a Glasgow-based AI infrastructure company that operates a self-hosted control plane for governing enterprise AI traffic. The core product is a single ~25MB Rust binary deployed inside a customer's own network boundary that sits in-path on all AI requests, performing policy enforcement, real-time cost attribution, and audit trail recording across multiple upstream providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GenAI/Vertex, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock). The platform supports native SDK translation between OpenAI, Anthropic and Google GenAI dialects without requiring application rewrites, and is verifiable at 21,803 RPS with 1.95ms median latency under production load with governance features active.

The company distributes the product in two tiers: a free Community Edition providing the full self-hosted gateway for personal, evaluation and non-commercial use, and a commercial Enterprise licence (VidaiServer Enterprise) that adds ML guardrails, a custom rate-card server, SSO/LDAP, high-availability clustering (Vidai Mesh), compliance reporting and SLAs. Adjacent offerings include VidaiAssistant (an offline sovereign AI assistant), VidaiMock (open-source LLM mock server for CI/CD), and Sovereign Engineering & Services for deployment and policy setup. The target customer base is enterprises in regulated industries — banking, insurance, healthcare, defence — as well as latency-critical AI applications and AI-native platforms, where data residency, audit obligations, and agent-pace traffic are the primary drivers of adoption.

Vidai was founded in 2025 by Nagu Gopalakrishnan (ex-Amazon Generative AI, GE and Tata Elxsi) and Dr. Priya Bhagavathy (Oxford Martin Fellow, PhD Electrical Engineering), and is privately held with no disclosed institutional funding. The company employs 1-10 people, is registered with the UK ICO (reference ZC112994), and goes to market through a hybrid of direct enterprise field sales and a product-led Community Edition funnel, with no channel partners or marketplace listings.

Name

Vidai UK

Legal name

Vidai UK Limited

Website

https://vidai.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Vidai UK Limited builds a self-hosted Rust-based AI control plane that governs, routes and audits enterprise AI traffic across providers inside the customer's own network. It targets regulated and latency-critical enterprises with a free Community Edition and a flat-licence Enterprise tier.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Infrastructure / AI Gateway Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

LLM/GenAI Guardrails & Safety Controls (policy, filtering, routing) (HDAAAKAD), Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Responsible AI Policy, Controls & Workflow Management (HDAAAMAG)

Keywords

• AI infrastructure platform
• LLM gateway service
• AI governance software
• AI traffic control plane
• Sovereign AI deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Software Licence: Flat annual licence fee for production deployments. No per-request fees and no usage markup. Enterprise tier includes ML guardrails, custom rate-card server, SSO/LDAP, high availability (Vidai Mesh), compliance reporting, priority support and SLAs.
2. Community Edition: Full self-hosted gateway provided free of charge with no expiry. Personal, evaluation and non-commercial use permitted without approval. Commercial use requires prior written approval from Vidai.
3. Professional Services: Sovereign Engineering & Services team handles deployment, policy and cost setup, custom guardrail model building, and legacy stack migration. Engagement ends with the customer owning and operating the system.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Vidai provides a self-hosted AI control plane (Rust-based, 25MB single binary) that sits in-path on enterprise AI traffic to route, govern, and monitor large language model and generative AI workflows across multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GenAI/Vertex, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock). The platform performs real-time cost attribution, inline policy enforcement, ML-based guardrails, signed audit trail recording, and regulatory compliance mapping (EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR Art. 44, FCA, ISO/IEC 42001) without sending any data outside the customer network boundary.

Product overview

Vidai UK's product portfolio centres on the Vidai Control Plane — a self-hosted AI gateway and control plane that runs inside the enterprise's own network boundary. The core platform is available in two editions: Community Edition (free, full-featured gateway without ML guardrails, SSO, HA, or support) and Enterprise (commercial licence adding ML guardrails, custom rate-card server, SSO/LDAP, Vidai Mesh HA clustering, compliance reporting, and priority SLAs). Adjacent offerings include VidaiMock (open-source LLM mock server for CI/CD), VidaiAssistant (offline, evidence-grounded assistant for sovereign environments), and Sovereign Engineering & Services (professional services for custom models, architecture, and audit). All editions share the same underlying ~25MB Rust engine.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Vidai Community Edition: Free, royalty-free self-hosted gateway for personal, evaluation, and non-commercial use. The full self-hosted control plane with no expiry.
• VidaiServer Enterprise
• VidaiAssistant
• VidaiMock

Products and services

• Vidai Control Plane Self-hosted AI gateway and control plane that runs inside the enterprise's own network, routing and governing all AI traffic across teams, models, and providers. Performs inline policy enforcement, real-time cost attribution, and audit trail recording on every request. Sold under two editions: Community (free) and Enterprise (paid annual licence).
• Vidai Community Edition Free, royalty-free self-hosted AI control plane with no expiry. Provides the full self-hosted gateway including routing, rate limits, regex-based guardrails, and audit logs. Excludes ML guardrails, custom rate-card server, SSO/LDAP, HA (Vidai Mesh), compliance reporting, and priority support. Personal, evaluation, and non-commercial use permitted without approval; commercial use requires prior written approval.
• VidaiServer Enterprise Commercial production licence for the Vidai self-hosted control plane. Includes ML guardrails (prompt-injection, toxicity, PII detection), custom rate-card server, SSO/LDAP integration, high availability via Vidai Mesh, compliance reporting and audit-evidence trails, and priority support with SLAs. Priced as a flat annual licence with no per-request fees and no usage markup.
• VidaiMock Open-source LLM mock server for CI/CD environments. Mocks any LLM API with zero configuration, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other providers, including streaming, tool calling, agentic workflow testing, chaos and error injection, and templating.
• VidaiAssistant Offline, evidence-grounded AI assistant designed for sovereign deployment within the customer perimeter. Targeted at regulated environments where AI assistance must remain entirely inside the network boundary.
• Sovereign Engineering & Services Professional services offering for custom model deployment, custom architecture design, and audit. The Sovereign Engineering & Services team handles deployment, policy and cost setup, custom guardrail model building, and legacy stack migration. Every engagement ends with assets the customer owns and operates.

Quantifiable outcome

• 21,803 RPS verified peak throughput on a single node with governance features active (auth, API key validation, rate limiting, routing)
• +5 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration14 records

AI capability3 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• LiteLLM: Open-source LLM gateway providing a unified interface to 100+ model providers with routing, fallbacks, and budget controls. Named directly by Vidai as a performance benchmark and the dominant open-source alternative in the same product category.
• Portkey: AI gateway and observability platform that sits between applications and LLM providers with routing, governance, and cost controls. Named directly by Vidai as a benchmark competitor; targets a similar enterprise buyer with multi-provider LLM orchestration.

Emerging players

• WhyLabs: AI observability platform that monitors LLM and ML applications for quality, drift, and security issues. Targets enterprise platform and compliance buyers with an overlapping but not identical scope to Vidai's gateway-first approach.
• Arthur AI: AI observability and governance platform focused on model performance monitoring, bias detection, and explainability for enterprise ML and LLM deployments. Competes for the same compliance and risk buyer but with a different architectural model.
• Helicone: Open-source LLM observability platform providing logging, evaluation, and cost tracking for generative AI applications. Overlaps with Vidai's monitoring, auditing, and cost attribution capabilities but with a developer-first orientation rather than sovereign deployment.
• OpenRouter: Unified API router for accessing many LLM providers with model discovery, fallbacks, and usage-based pricing. Overlaps with Vidai's multi-provider routing layer but does not focus on enterprise self-hosted governance or regulatory audit.

Broad incumbents

• Azure API Management: Microsoft's enterprise API gateway platform with policies, monitoring, and now LLM-specific extensions via Azure AI Foundry. A potential bundled incumbent for Microsoft-shop regulated enterprises evaluating AI governance.
• Kong: Established API gateway platform that has extended into AI/LLM traffic management and governance. Explicitly named by Vidai as a comparison; offers broader API management beyond the AI-specific niche Vidai specialises in.
• AWS Bedrock Guardrails: Native safety and governance controls bundled into AWS Bedrock, the hyperscaler's managed LLM service. Represents the bundled-incumbent threat to standalone gateways like Vidai for AWS-centric enterprises.
• Cloudflare: Global edge and network provider with an AI Gateway product offering caching, rate limiting, and analytics for LLM traffic. Competes on the routing/observability layer but as part of a much broader cloud and security portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/vidaiUK
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vidai-uk

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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