Mastra Custom Gateways Route Self-Hosted Models

The compelling pitch is model ownership without abandoning Mastra’s agent ergonomics, though teams still inherit the operational burden of running inference infrastructure.

• –Supports private endpoints, custom authentication, and OpenAI-compatible model adapters
• –Namespaced model IDs let teams route agents across regions, providers, or gateway versions
• –Self-hosting can trade unpredictable token bills for more controllable infrastructure costs
• –Pricing metadata helps track spend for models missing from public pricing catalogs
• –The tradeoff is clear: more privacy and portability, but teams must manage GPUs, scaling, uptime, and model upgrades