🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway

Stacking free tiers by hand is painful — dozens of SDKs, dozens of rate limits, and no idea how much you actually have. OmniRoute aggregates the documented free tiers of 42 provider pools / 495 models into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard (/dashboard/free-tiers).

Animated summary of the live /dashboard/free-tiers page. Full methodology (pool dedupe, credit tiers, provider terms): docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md.

_{These figures are re-audited every two weeks against the live catalog and move both ways — a provider ends a free tier and the number drops; a new one lands and it climbs. We publish what the catalog actually computes, never a rounded-up best case.}

🌐 In 43 languages

# Fresh install, zero credentials — `auto` already works:
curl http://localhost:20128/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'

_{Prefer a specific free backend? Call it directly, e.g. oc/… (OpenCode Free) or felo/… (Felo). Then graduate to auto and let OmniRoute pick.}

_{📦 Copy-paste quickstart scripts for Python, Node.js, PHP, and cURL → examples/quickstart/}

Want to join as an Open Source Friend? These are the companies that back open source and help keep OmniRoute moving — and we say publicly where every token they give us goes. Reach out: diegosouza.pw@outlook.com

Kimi Moonshot AI

Thanks to Kimi (Moonshot AI), our founding Open Source Friend, for backing this project! Kimi is the AI lab behind the open-weight K2 and K3 model families — Kimi K3 delivers a 1M-token context window, native vision and frontier-level coding at a fraction of closed-model prices, and works out of the box with Claude Code, Codex and every coding tool OmniRoute serves. What Kimi's support powers: Kimi's API credits power OmniRoute's AI-validated release pipeline — the merge validation powered by Kimi K3 stage that reviews every pull request before it ships — plus day-to-day feature development. First-class Kimi support ships on both rails: the direct Kimi API (kimi-k3) and the Kimi Code coding plan (OAuth and API key). OmniRoute is also the first Brazilian open-source project in Kimi's support program. Get a Kimi API key with 15% extra credits →

Cheaper Inference cheaperinference.com

Thanks to Cheaper Inference, an OmniRoute Open Source Friend, for backing this project! Cheaper Inference is a cost-ranked gateway that resells 42 frontier models — Claude, GPT-5.x, Gemini, Kimi K3, GLM, DeepSeek, Grok and MiniMax — behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, routing each request to the cheapest eligible provider without ever charging above the model maker's list price. First-class support in OmniRoute: Chat Completions, the native /v1/responses endpoint, vision, tool calling and 3 image models (grok-imagine, nano-banana-pro, nano-banana-2, reachable as cheaperinference/<model>). Get an API key →

_{Links tagged aff=omniroute are partner links. They fund the project at no extra cost to you.}

_{🎟️ Affiliates Promo — free signup coupons from providers we don't sponsor (click to expand)}

_{This section is for referral/coupon codes only. Sponsored partnerships live in 🤝 Supported by our Open Source Friends above. OmniRoute has no sponsorship or partnership with the providers listed here — these are public coupons anyone can use.}

AgentRouter agentrouter.org

AgentRouter — affiliate signup · $100 free credits on signup (free server, expect higher latency — best for testing, not production). First-class support in OmniRoute since v3.8.50: Chat Completions, the Anthropic-compatible wire format and the OpenAI-compatible path. Available models include claude-opus-4-8, claude-opus-5, gpt-5.6-sol and more. Grab your $100 → ⚠️ Affiliate link — OmniRoute has no sponsorship or partnership with this provider.

_{Know another provider with a generous free signup coupon that benefits OmniRoute users? Open an issue and we'll add it here.}

A combo is a chain of models OmniRoute routes across automatically. Quota runs out, a provider fails, or costs spike — the combo silently slides to the next model. This is what makes OmniRoute unbreakable. 🛡️

⚡ Zero-config — just use auto

No combo to create. Set your model to auto (or a variant) and OmniRoute builds a virtual combo from your connected providers, scored live:

🔀 Or build your own — 19 routing strategies

All 19 strategies — mix & match per combo step:

_{The Auto-Combo engine scores every candidate on 14 factors (health, quota, cost, latency, success rate, freshness…) — see docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md.}

🧱 Resilience is built in (3 independent layers)

_{📖 Auto-Combo Engine · Resilience Guide}

_{📊 Full methodology & per-feature detail vs 9router, OpenRouter, CLIProxyAPI & LiteLLM → docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md}

💚 Support OmniRoute

OmniRoute is MIT-licensed and maintained in the open. If it saves you time or money, here's how to keep it independent — pick whatever fits you. Sponsorship never affects routing priority; it buys visibility, not ranking.

🇧🇷 PIX — instant, no fees (Brazil)

Key (random): 5d865059-bc44-483a-962d-43ceb80126eb

Pix copia-e-cola:

00020101021126580014br.gov.bcb.pix01365d865059-bc44-483a-962d-43ceb80126eb5204000053039865802BR5922OMNIROUTE CONTRIBUICAO6006BRASIL62070503***630475DD

🐛 Found a bug or have feedback? Open a Discussion.

Developer notes: The project may generate a local .env file during npm install/postinstall for developer convenience. This file is intentionally ignored via .gitignore (see .gitignore) and must never be committed — if accidentally committed, rotate any exposed secrets and remove the file from history. See docs/DEVELOPER-ENVIRONMENT.md for guidance on managing local environment files and secrets.

📡 OmniRoute Radar

The main free-tier headline remains ~1.53B tokens/month from the documented, pool-deduplicated catalog above. Temporary provider signup credits can separately lift the first month to ~2.15B. Radar is an optional, signed catalog overlay for people who want fresher free-model availability between OmniRoute releases; the community catalog and every existing free feature remain free.

Supporters can receive the live catalog and additional provider opportunities. Its separate, mutable ceiling is approximately 3B tokens/month at most, depending on provider availability. That ceiling is not a guarantee: providers can change quotas, eligibility, models, or regions at any time.

Radar is opt-in and GET-only. The OmniRoute client does not upload prompts, traffic, provider configuration, usage telemetry, or local announcement-dismiss state. Learn about eligibility and the current catalog at radar.omniroute.online/planos.

Recent highlights from v3.8.20 → v3.8.50. Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

• 🎛️ OmniConductor — inbound A2A delegation to your agent fleet, Conductor skills on the Agent Card, and a dashboard panel with Faro push-to-talk voice chat. → A2A Server
• 🛂 Adaptive admission & overload protection — heavyweight chat requests queue instead of 503ing, with atomic RPM rolling leases per connection. → Resilience Guide
• 🗂️ Canonical /v1/models ordering — one contiguous provider-grouped block per provider (combos pinned first), stable across every catalog source. → API Reference
• 🗜️ Compression hardening — default-on inflation guard, Caveman packs for DE / FR / JA + Chinese (wényán), RTK filters for Gradle & .NET. → Compression
• 💸 Honest flat-rate cost — subscription / coding-plan providers read $0 in cost analytics; budget, quota & routing keep estimating. → API Reference
• ⚖️ Quota-Share routing — split a shared account's quota fairly across pooled keys, work-conserving so idle slices are lent out. → Resilience Guide
• 🤖 One-command CLI/agent setup — setup-* configures 12+ coding tools; omniroute run launches 7 CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Goose, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Gemini CLI) with zero config written; omniroute configure is an interactive provider+model picker with per-context favorites. → CLI Integrations
• 🛰️ Remote mode — drive a remote OmniRoute with scoped tokens (connect / contexts / tokens) + an antigravity OAuth helper for VPS installs. → Remote Mode
• 🧭 Smarter auto-routing — auto/<category>:<tier> combos, Fusion (model panel + judge), task-aware routing, per-request model / mode / USD-budget overrides. → Auto-Combo
• 🗜️ Pluggable compression — 12 composable engines + Compression Studios: LLMLingua-2, two-tier Ultra, omniglyph, per-step fidelity gate, GCF v3.2, drag-reorder editor. → Compression
• 🕵️ Transparent MITM decrypt (TPROXY) — capture CLIs that ignore proxy env vars, with a per-SNI CA + trust-store installer. → MITM/TPROXY
• 💸 Cost telemetry everywhere — X-OmniRoute-* cost/usage headers on every endpoint, cache-HIT savings header, per-key USD spend quotas. → API Reference
• 🧠 Memory you control — off by default, opt-in int8 vector quantization + typed decay, per-request x-omniroute-no-memory. → Memory
• 🛡️ Security — prompt-injection guard on every LLM route (red-team suite), opt-in credential-masking guardrail (redacts leaked API keys/secrets in both directions), free DuckDuckGo last-resort web search, and an optional OIDC login gate for the dashboard (password login always stays available). → Guardrails
• 🖼️ New endpoints — /v1/ocr (Mistral OCR) and /v1/audio/translations (Whisper-style) round out the media surface. → API Reference
• 🎨 Image / video / audio generation — one API for media: xAI Grok Imagine & Novita AI video, ComfyUI, Freepik, Adobe Firefly, Microsoft Designer, Segmind, EdgeTTS. → API Reference
• 🌍 Deployment & ops — reverse-proxy basePath, browser-language auto-detect, per-key device tracking, root-less MITM trust, zh-TW localization. → Environment
• 🤝 More providers & agents — Cursor Cloud Agent, Grok Build (xAI) with browser + OAuth login, Ollama first-class card, Claude Opus 5 & Sonnet 5, Kimi official partnership (Code/Web/Moonshot), Zed, Requesty, SenseNova, Yuanbao, Agnes AI… and a refreshed 341-provider catalog. → Providers
• 📡 Routing transparency — every response carries an X-OmniRoute-Decision header naming the strategy/provider/latency that served it, a new cache-optimized combo strategy + Auto-Combo cacheAffinity factor route repeat requests back to the connection holding the cached prefix, and a read-only /v1/auto-combo/{channel}/candidates endpoint exposes an auto/* channel's live candidate pool. → Auto-Combo
• ⚡ Local performance & infra — one-click local Redis, Cloudflare Workers / Deno Deploy relay deployers, Bifrost & Mux as supervised embedded services. → Embedded Services

🤖 Compatible CLIs & Coding Agents

One config — http://localhost:20128/v1 — and every AI IDE or CLI runs on free & low-cost models.

Claude Code	Codex CLI	Cline	Kilo Code	Zoo Code	Continue
Aider	ForgeCode	jcode	DeepSeek TUI	CodeWhale	OpenCode
Factory Droid	Copilot CLI	Cursor CLI	Smelt	Pi	Grok Build
Hermes Agent	OpenClaw	Goose	Open Interpreter	Warp AI	Agent Deck

＋ also works with · Kiro · Command Code · Antigravity · Windsurf · AMP · any OpenAI-compatible tool

_{📖 Per-tool setup for all 34 tools (26 CLI Code's + 8 CLI Agents) → docs/reference/CLI-TOOLS.md · 🧩 OpenCode plugin → @omniroute/opencode-provider}

Launch any supported CLI through OmniRoute in one command — no config files written, credentials injected per process, Qwen/Gemini get a throwaway isolated home:

omniroute run claude   --model openai/gpt-5.4          # Claude Code
omniroute run codex    --model glm/glm-5.2             # OpenAI Codex CLI
omniroute run aider    --model glm/glm-5.2 -- --message "reply OK"
omniroute run goose    --model glm/glm-5.2
omniroute run opencode --model glm/glm-5.2 -- run "reply OK"
omniroute run qwen     --model glm/glm-5.2 -- -p "reply OK"
omniroute run gemini   --model glm/glm-5.2 -- --skip-trust -p "reply OK"

# Or pick provider+model interactively and write the tool's own config:
omniroute configure codex          # also: claude opencode qwen aider goose cline continue kilo

Every command honors the active remote context (omniroute connect <host>), --dry-run previews the exact env/args without executing, and --api-key-env NAME keeps secrets out of your shell history. → CLI Integrations

The most complete catalog of any open-source router: 341 providers, 90+ with a free tier, 56 free forever.

🏢 Every major lab — through one endpoint

OpenAI	Anthropic	Gemini	xAI Grok	DeepSeek	Mistral
Qwen	Meta Llama	Groq	NVIDIA	MiniMax	Cohere
Perplexity	HuggingFace	Together	Fireworks	Cloudflare	Baidu

_{…and 220+ more — every icon resolves live from the dashboard's provider catalog. 📖 Provider Reference}

🆓 Free Forever — $0, no card

OpenCode Zen DeepSeek V4, Nemotron 3 No token cap	Kilo Code Auto-router, Tencent Hy3 Free forever	Requesty GPT-OSS 120B, Nemotron Free forever	SiliconFlow DeepSeek V3.2 / R1 Free tier	Z.AI GLM GLM-4.7 / 4.5-Flash Free forever	Baidu ERNIE ERNIE 4.0 Free forever
Qoder AI Qwen3-Max, Kimi-K2 Unlimited FREE	Pollinations GPT, Llama, Claude No key needed	Cloudflare AI 50+ models 10K neurons/day	NVIDIA NIM GLM, MiniMax ~40 RPM free	Cerebras GLM 4.7, GPT-OSS 1M tokens/day	OpenRouter :free models +$10 → higher RPM

📖 Full machine-readable catalog → docs/reference/PROVIDER_REFERENCE.md

Same app, your machine, your rules. From a global npm install to your phone via Termux.

_{📖 Docker Guide · Desktop · Termux · PWA · OpenCode}

No new sidebar, no new chat UI — every model OmniRoute serves shows up right in the Copilot Chat model picker you already use. Since VS Code 1.122, provider models work without a GitHub sign-in or a Copilot subscription — agent mode, tool calling and vision, for free.

Install the OmniCopilot extension, point it at your OmniRoute server (defaults to localhost:20128), then open Copilot Chat → model picker → Manage Models… → OmniRoute.

From inside the editor: open the Extensions view, search "OmniRoute", click Install — works the same way on both stores. Source, issues and the publishing runbook live at diegosouzapw/OmniCopilot.

_{📖 VS Code Copilot Chat guide — setup, what the picker shows, dashboard-in-a-tab, troubleshooting}

_{📖 Authorization · Guardrails · Compliance}

Beyond the server, OmniRoute is a full command-line cockpit with 80+ commands, plus open agent protocols so an AI agent can drive it on its own.

⌨️ A real CLI (not just start)

omniroute               # serve gateway + dashboard (port 20128)
omniroute chat          # interactive TUI chat client (slash: /model /combo /skill /memory)
omniroute setup         # guided first-run wizard
omniroute doctor        # diagnose providers, ports, native deps

🛰️ Remote mode — run the CLI here, OmniRoute on a VPS

OmniRoute on a server? Drive it from your laptop with the same CLI. Log in once with a scoped access token; every command then targets the remote.

omniroute connect 192.168.0.15            # password → scoped token, saved as a context
omniroute models list                     # ← runs against the REMOTE server
omniroute configure codex                 # ← picks a remote model, writes a local Codex profile
omniroute tokens create --name ci --scope read   # mint narrower tokens for other machines
omniroute contexts use default            # ← switch back to the local server

Tokens are scoped read / write / admin; process-spawning routes stay loopback-only. _{📖 Remote Mode}

🤝 Connect an agent — and it controls OmniRoute itself

Expose OmniRoute over MCP, A2A, a REST API, webhooks or a remote CLI — any capable agent (or your own code) gets the keys to the whole gateway: routing, providers, combos, cache, compression, memory — autonomously. HTTP endpoints below are served under http://localhost:20128.

# Give Claude Code the full OmniRoute toolset over MCP:
claude mcp add-server omniroute --type http --url http://localhost:20128/api/mcp/stream

_{📖 MCP Server · A2A Server · Agent Protocols}

📖 How it works — pipeline, architecture & savings math

Default stacked combo runs RTK → Caveman. When both act on the same tool/context payload, savings compound:

combined = 1 − (1 − RTK) × (1 − Caveman_input)
average  = 1 − (1 − 0.80) × (1 − 0.46) = 89.2%
range    = 78.4 – 94.6%

Code blocks, URLs, JSON and structured data are always protected by the preservation engine.

Why use many tokens when few tokens do the trick? Every request passes through OmniRoute's compression pipeline transparently — no client changes. It's now a stack of 12 composable engines that run in order and mix & match per routing combo — building on ideas from RTK, Caveman (⭐ 90K+), LLMLingua-2, and Troglodita (PT-BR).

🧱 The 12-engine stack

Engines run in pipeline order; each is independently toggleable and configurable per combo:

Code blocks, URLs and structured data are always preserved byte-perfect. One-click presets combine the engines:

Real example — Standard mode:

Before (69 tokens): "The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. When you pass an inline object as a prop, React's shallow comparison sees it as a different object every time, which triggers a re-render. I would recommend using useMemo to memoize the object."

After (19 tokens): "New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo."

Same answer. 72% fewer tokens. Zero accuracy loss. ✅

PT-BR example — Troglodita mode:

Antes (42 tokens): "O problema é que o componente está re-renderizando porque uma nova referência de objeto está sendo criada em cada ciclo de renderização. Eu recomendaria usar useMemo."

Depois (12 tokens): "Re-render: ref nova cada ciclo (objeto inline recriado). Usar useMemo."

Mesma resposta. ~70% menos tokens. Precisão técnica intacta. ✅

🎚️ Beyond the engines — output styles, the adaptive dial & per-request control

The 12 engines above shrink what goes in. Three more layers shape how, when, and what comes out:

• 🪄 Output Styles (output-axis steering) — inject deterministic, cache-safe response-shaping instructions; combinable, each at lite / full / ultra intensity. Adding a style is a one-line registry entry:
  • Terse prose — drop filler / articles / hedging; keep technical substance exact.
  • Less code — "lazy senior dev" YAGNI: smallest working change, no unrequested scaffolding.
  • Terse CJK (文言) — classical-Chinese ultra-terse style (locale-gated to zh).
• 🎯 Adaptive context-budget (the dial) — instead of one on/off token threshold, escalate the cheapest, most-lossless engines only as far as needed to fit the model's context window. Policy: reserve-output (default, model-aware) · percentage · absolute. Mode: floor (guarantee fit) · replace-autotrigger (your explicit choice wins) · off (legacy threshold).
• 🎛️ Where compression is decided (precedence, high → low) — per-request x-omniroute-compression header › routing-combo override › active named profile › adaptive / auto-trigger › panel default › off. The applied plan echoes back in the X-OmniRoute-Compression: <mode>; source=<source> response header.

Auto-trigger by token threshold, flip on the adaptive dial, pin a named profile, set a one-off per request, or assign a pipeline per routing combo — whichever fits the workload. An opt-in offline eval harness (npm run eval:compression) scores fidelity vs. savings on a pinned corpus before you promote a change.

📖 COMPRESSION_GUIDE.md · RTK_COMPRESSION.md · COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md

1) Install & run

npm install -g omniroute
omniroute

💡 See npm warn ERESOLVE or peer-dep warnings? They're harmless.

Dashboard at http://localhost:20128 · API at http://localhost:20128/v1.

2) Connect a FREE provider (no signup)

Dashboard → Providers → connect Kiro AI (free Claude, ~50 credits/month per account) or OpenCode Free (no auth) → done.

3) Point your coding tool

Base URL: http://localhost:20128/v1
API Key:  [copy from Dashboard → Endpoints]
Model:    auto            (zero-config smart routing — or any provider/model)

4) Verify it's working

curl http://localhost:20128/v1/models -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

You should see your connected models listed. 🎉 That's it — start coding, and OmniRoute auto-routes & falls back for you.

If your client cannot send custom headers, OmniRoute also exposes tokenized compatibility aliases:

OpenAI catalog:   http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/
OpenAI models:    http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/models
OpenAI chat:      http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/chat/completions
OpenAI responses: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/responses
Ollama chat:      http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/api/chat
Ollama tags:      http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/api/tags

Use these only for clients that cannot attach Authorization: Bearer .... Header auth remains the preferred mode.

📦 More install methods — Docker, source, pnpm, Arch

🐳 Docker

docker run -d --name omniroute --restart unless-stopped --stop-timeout 40 \
  -p 127.0.0.1:20128:20128 -v omniroute-data:/app/data diegosouzapw/omniroute:latest

Pre-release Docker channel: diegosouzapw/omniroute:next and diegosouzapw/omniroute:next-web follow the current default release/v* branch. These mutable tags are intended only for testing unreleased fixes and are not supported for production. See Docker Release Channels.

🛠️ From source

cp .env.example .env && npm install
PORT=20128 npm run dev

📦 pnpm

pnpm add -g omniroute@latest --allow-build=better-sqlite3 --allow-build=@swc/core && omniroute

🐧 Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S omniroute-bin && systemctl --user enable --now omniroute.service

🔧 Nix (Flake)

# Using Nix flakes
nix develop
npm run dev

# Or using devbox
devbox run npm run dev

📖 Docker Guide — Compose profiles, Caddy HTTPS, Cloudflare tunnels.

🦭 Podman

# 1. Prepare the bind-mounted data directory
mkdir -p data

# 2. Linux + local rootless Podman only (never a remote Podman Machine client):
podman unshare chown 1000:1000 ./data

# 3. Set the runtime hint, build the local Compose image, and start
echo "CONTAINER_HOST=podman" >> .env
podman compose --profile base up -d --build

On macOS or Windows, Podman uses a remote Podman Machine: skip podman unshare and follow the topology-specific data directory guidance.

📖 Podman Guide — Compose builds, Podman Machine, and Linux/systemd Quadlet setup.

⚡ Faster / leaner install (skip the native build)

The native SQLite engine (better-sqlite3) is an optional dependency, so a global install never blocks on compiling from source: it uses a prebuilt binary when one matches your platform/Node, and otherwise falls back transparently to a pure-JS engine (node:sqlite on Node 22+, else the bundled sql.js WASM) — no build tools required.

To skip the post-install native warm-up entirely (CI, headless, or slow machines):

OMNIROUTE_SKIP_POSTINSTALL=1 npm install -g omniroute   # CI=1 also skips it

For the fastest installs prefer pnpm (content-addressed store + hard links — see above). For a dashboard-free, headless runtime use the Docker base profile (above) or the Termux guide. The CLI and the web dashboard are served by the same process on one port, so there is no separate CLI-only package today.

📹 Video Guides

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Ranking completo (v > 0, maior alcance):

Métricas de validação: 1002 vídeos rastreados · 7,069,190 visualizações conhecidas · 595 perfis/canais · 13+ idiomas · 13+ criadores.

🎬 Made a video about OmniRoute? Open an issue or discussion with the link — we'll feature it here.

📘 Getting Started

🔧 Operations & Deployment

🧠 Features & Architecture

🤖 Protocols & APIs

📋 Project & Quality

⭐ Top Contributors

OmniRoute is shaped by a passionate open-source community. These individuals have made exceptional contributions that directly impact the quality, stability, and reach of the project. Thank you.

oyi77 🥇 213 commits • +114K lines Analytics engine, SQL aggregations, proxy marketplace, test coverage	R.D. & Randi 🥈 108 commits • +38K lines Endpoints page, tunnel integrations, Docker workflows, A2A status, compression UI	Chris Staley 🥉 70 commits • +1.8K lines SSE stream hardening, Responses API, Gemini pagination, test regression fixes	zenobit 🏅 62 commits • +22K lines CI/CD pipeline, i18n for 33 languages, Void Linux package, platform fixes	Jan Leon 🏅 58 commits • +22K lines Reasoning-effort routing, proxy controls, quota visibility, Live Zone compression
backryun 🏅 53 commits • +70K lines Provider catalog curation — Perplexity, Kimi, Cerebras, Copilot, LMArena refreshes	Chirag Singhal 🏅 46 commits • +4.8K lines Error sanitization, MITM prefill fix, fusion judge, breaker/429 correctness	kfiramar 🏅 38 commits • +1.7K lines Codex websocket + passthrough, auth/onboarding, Electron hardening, DB migrations	Benson K B 🏅 28 commits • +9.2K lines Electron desktop app, auto-updater, release build workflows, cross-platform CI	Hernan J. Ardila 🏅 25 commits • +174K lines Zero-latency combos, vision-bridge auto-routing, catalog context-length, resilience 429 hints

🙏 These contributors' features, bug fixes, and infrastructure improvements are a core part of what makes OmniRoute reliable and feature-rich. Every pull request, every test case, and every i18n translation file matters. Open source is built by people like them.

💖 Sponsors

A heartfelt thank-you to the people who fund OmniRoute out of their own pocket — every contribution keeps the project free, independent and moving.

Prof. Igor Morais 💛 Sponsor

longtao 💛 Sponsor

_{… and others who prefer to stay private 💛}

💖 Become a sponsor → — every dollar keeps OmniRoute free and independent.

How to Contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Branch from the active release/vX.Y.Z tip (not main) — see Branching & Release Model
3. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feat/amazing-feature)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'feat: add amazing feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feat/amazing-feature)
6. Open a Pull Request with base = that release/vX.Y.Z branch

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

Releasing a New Version

# Create a release — npm publish happens automatically
gh release create v3.8.2 --title "v3.8.2" --generate-notes

📊 Stars

🌍 StarMapper

🙏 Acknowledgments

OmniRoute stands on the shoulders of giants. It started as a fork of 9router and a TypeScript port of the Go project CLIProxyAPI — and from there, every subsystem below was inspired by an open-source project that got there first. Each one shaped a concrete piece of OmniRoute. This is our thank-you to all of them. 🙏

⭐ star counts as of July 2026 — go give these projects a star.

🧬 Lineage & gateway

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
9router	22.7k	The original project this fork is built on — extended here with multi-modal APIs and a full TypeScript rewrite.
CLIProxyAPI	43.6k	The Go implementation that inspired this JavaScript / TypeScript port.
LiteLLM	54.0k	The AI gateway whose public pricing dataset feeds our cost-tracking sync and whose provider-normalization model informed our routing.

🗜️ Context & token compression — engines

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
Caveman	90.8k	The viral "why use many token when few token do trick" project — its caveman-speak philosophy powers our standard compression mode and 30+ filler/condensation rules.
RTK – Rust Token Killer	71.8k	High-performance command-output compression — inspired our RTK engine, JSON filter DSL, raw-output recovery and the stacked RTK → Caveman pipeline.
headroom	60.1k	Reversible context-compression (SmartCrusher) — inspired our headroom engine and the ccr retrieve-marker pattern.
LLMLingua	6.5k	Prompt-compression research (LLMLingua / LLMLingua-2) — inspired our async, code-safe, fail-open llmlingua engine.
llmlingua-2-js	30	The JS/ONNX port (MobileBERT / XLM-RoBERTa) used as the worker-thread backend for our LLMLingua engine.
Troglodita	26	PT-BR token compression — powers our pt-BR language pack: pleonasm reduction and filler removal tuned for Brazilian-Portuguese grammar.
ponytail	86.0k	The viral "lazy senior dev" YAGNI-coder skill — inspired our less-code Output Style: smallest-working-change steering that cuts _generated_ code (the output-axis sibling to Caveman's terse prose).

🧩 Compact formats, token research & code-aware tooling

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
TOON	24.9k	Token-Oriented Object Notation — its columnar, header-plus-rows model shaped our tabular compaction stage.
GCF – Graph Compact Format	22	First inspired our tabular compaction stage; now its zero-dependency, lossless generic-profile encoder is vendored directly as the Headroom codec (MIT, SPDX-marked), current with GCF spec v3.2.
token-optimizer-mcp	444	Brotli/SQLite cache + per-session context-delta — inspired our session-dedup engine.
token-savior	1.1k	Bash-output compaction + MCP profiles — inspired our compression bail-out discipline and MCP tool-manifest reduction.
token-saver	117	Content-aware, per-file-type output compression with failure-aware bail-out — validated our per-type dispatch and minimum-gain skip.
token-optimizer	1.7k	"Find the ghost tokens" — its offload + recoverable-handle pattern informed our CCR offload thinking.
TokenMizer	16	A session-graph + cross-turn line-dedup blueprint that informed our session-dedup design.
OmniCompress	3	Rust columnar-JSON + content-addressed retrieve + cross-message dedup — validated our headroom/ccr/session-dedup engine design and the cache-stable "compressed form is position-independent" invariant.
mcp-compressor	98	MCP tool-schema/description compression — informed our MCP tool-manifest cardinality reduction.
RepoMapper	187	Aider-style repo-map ranking — informed our repo-map / retrieval-ranking exploration.
quiet-shell-mcp	4	Declarative shell-output reduction over MCP — validated our declarative bash-output compaction.
ts-morph	6.1k	TypeScript Compiler API toolkit — inspired our parser-based comment removal that preserves string, template and regex literals.

🧠 Memory & RAG

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
Mem0	61.2k	Universal memory layer — its proxy-as-write/read-boundary model shaped our memory architecture.
Letta (MemGPT)	23.9k	Stateful agents with tiered memory — inspired our Context Control & Recovery (CCR) tiered model.
WFGY	1.8k	The ProblemMap taxonomy of 16 recurring RAG/LLM failure modes — the shared vocabulary in our troubleshooting guide.

🛰️ Traffic inspection, MITM & transparent proxy

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
llm-interceptor	49	MITM interception/analysis of coding-assistant ↔ LLM traffic — our Traffic Inspector ports its SSE merge, conversation normalization, host passthrough and secret masking (MIT).
ProxyBridge	5.5k	Transparent per-process proxy routing — inspired our crash-safe MITM teardown, socket idle-timeouts, /proc process attribution and TPROXY capture.

📚 Model data, observability & UI

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
models.dev	6.0k	Open database of AI model specs, pricing and capabilities — synced natively into our model catalog.
React Flow / xyflow	37.7k	The node-based graph library powering our real-time Compression Studio and Combo/Routing Studio.
LangGraph	37.6k	LangGraph Studio's live workflow-graph visualization inspired our Studios' real-time cascade view.
Langfuse	31.4k	Its trace → span → generation observability model shaped our Compression Studio waterfall.
Kiali	3.6k	Istio service-mesh observability — inspired our circuit-breaker badges and error-edge visuals in the Routing/Combo Studio.
lobe-icons	2.2k	AI/LLM brand logos that render the provider icons across our dashboard.

🛡️ Security

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
awesome-secure-defaults	710	A curated list of secure-by-default libraries that guides our security choices (Helmet.js, DOMPurify, ssrf-req-filter, safe-regex, Google Tink).

🧭 Complementary tools

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute

📄 License

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