🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway
💰 ~1.62B Tokens / Month Across Third-Party Free Tiers
Bring your own provider accounts. This is an estimated aggregate across separately eligible third-party free tiers, not a token grant from OmniRoute. Sign up, obtain credentials where required, and connect the providers you can use; each provider controls its limits, availability, and terms.
Stacking free tiers by hand is painful — dozens of SDKs, dozens of rate limits, and no idea how much you actually have. OmniRoute catalogs 467 free-tier entries across 34 recurring pool keys and computes the token headline from the 17 pools with a published positive monthly budget plus five per-model Groq caps, deduplicated by shared pool. Quotas that only open after a regional identity check (today: ModelScope) are shown apart, +~6M behind regional identity verification, and never summed into the headline. The result stays visible on the dashboard (
/dashboard/free-tiers).
Animated summary of the live
/dashboard/free-tierspage. 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.
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Questions, provider tips, roadmap & support → Discord · Telegram · WhatsApp 🌍 Global / 🇧🇷 Brasil / Portal
📈 The Gateway Keeps Growing
| v3.8.50 | v3.8.51 | v3.8.52+ |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 🌐 Providers | 352 | 358 | 375 |
| 🧠 Unique chat model IDs | 1320 | 1374 | 1475 |
| 🖼️ Modality Bridge | 🆕 vision + audio + video | ✓ | ✓ |
| 📡 Radar free catalog | 🆕 opt-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| ⚖️ Quota-aware scheduling | 🆕 Quota-Share | ✓ | ✓ |
| 📊 Quota telemetry | 🆕 live | ✓ | ✓ |
| 🧰 Headless mode | — | — | 🆕 serve --headless |
| 🛤️ LTS rail infra | — | — | 🆕 release channels |
| 🔎 Model discovery API | — | — | 🆕 /v1/models/query |
→ Roadmap — riding the rail to v3.9.0 LTS
🧩 Available
| 🚀 Start | 🚀 Quick Start | 📦 Install | 🆓 Connect a provider |
| 💡 Learn | 💥 The Promise | 🤔 Why OmniRoute | 🏆 What Sets Apart |
| ⚙️ Features | 🎯 Combos | 🌐 Providers | 🔌 CLI & MCP |
| 🗜️ Compression | 🖥️ Where It Runs | 🔒 Private | |
| 👀 See it | 🎬 In Action | ✨ What's New | 🤖 Compatible CLIs |
| 💚 Support | 💚 Support / Donate | 💬 Community | 💖 Sponsors |
| 📦 Project | 🛠️ Tech Stack | 📖 Docs | 👥 Contributors |
# After connecting a provider, copy your OmniRoute key from Dashboard → Endpoints:
curl http://localhost:20128/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_OMNIROUTE_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'auto needs an eligible route. A fresh installation can have no eligible keyless targets, and a keyless provider may reject third-party clients. Providers marked tos: avoid, including Kiro, are excluded from automatic routing by default; connecting an account does not override that setting. See the Free Tiers Guide before choosing a provider.
📦 Copy-paste quickstart scripts for Python, Node.js, PHP, and cURL → examples/quickstart/
💥 The Promise
🤔 Why OmniRoute?
🤝 Supported by our Open Source Friends
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: [email protected]
Kimi Moonshot AI 
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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 →
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Cheaper Inference cheaperinference.com 
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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🎯 Combos — The Flagship
A combo is a chain of models OmniRoute routes across automatically. If quota runs out, a provider fails, or costs spike, the combo can move to the next eligible healthy model. 🛡️
⚡ 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:
| Model ID | What it optimizes for |
|---|---|
auto | 🎯 Balanced default (LKGP — sticks to your last good provider) |
auto/coding | 🧑💻 Quality-first weights for code generation |
auto/fast | ⚡ Lowest latency first |
auto/cheap | 💰 Cheapest per token first |
auto/subscription | 🎟️ Only the subscription quota you already pay for — fails closed, never a billable fallback (guide) |
auto/thrifty | 🪜 Plan quota first, then one rung at a time to the cheapest paid options — back on the plan after it resets (guide) |
auto/offline | 🔋 Most quota / rate-limit headroom first |
auto/smart | 🔭 Quality-first + 10% exploration to discover better models |
auto/lkgp | 📌 Explicit last-known-good-provider stickiness |
auto/chaos | 🧪 Parallel fan-out to a panel of models (one per provider, 5 by default), returns one answer; one upstream call per panel model, not fault injection |
🔀 Or build your own — 20 routing strategies
All 20 strategies — mix & match per combo step:
| # | Strategy | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | priority |
First-target ordered list — drain each before the next 🥇 |
| 2 | fill-first |
Fill each target's quota fully before moving on |
| 3 | weighted |
Weighted random by per-target weight |
| 4 | round-robin |
Cycle through targets in order |
| 5 | p2c |
Power-of-two-choices random load balancing |
| 6 | least-used |
Pick the target with the lowest current load |
| 7 | random |
Uniform random pick (deduplicated) |
| 8 | strict-random |
Random without de-duplicating repeats 🎲 |
| 9 | cost-optimized |
Minimize $ per request from live catalog pricing 💸 |
| 10 | headroom |
Pick the target with the most remaining quota |
| 11 | quota-weighted |
Skip exhausted accounts, then draw in proportion to leftover quota ÷ in-flight load — existing conversations stay pinned ⚖️ |
| 12 | reset-window |
Prefer the target whose quota window resets soonest |
| 13 | reset-aware |
Rank by quota reset time — short windows first 📊 |
| 14 | context-relay |
Hand off context across targets for long conversations 🧠 |
| 15 | context-optimized |
Pick the best fit for the current context size |
| 16 | cache-optimized |
Pin each reusable prompt prefix to the same account — maximize prompt-cache hits 🎯 |
| 17 | lkgp |
Last-Known-Good Path — pins to the last successful provider, then falls back to rules |
| 18 | auto |
16-factor live scoring across every connection 🤖 |
| 19 | fusion |
Fan out to a panel of models + a judge synthesizes one answer 🧬 |
| 20 | pipeline |
Chain steps — each target's output feeds the next one 🔗 |
The Auto-Combo engine scores every candidate on 16 factors (health, quota, cost, latency, task fit, quality, session availability…) — see docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md.
🧱 Resilience is built in (3 independent layers)
📖 Auto-Combo Engine · Resilience Guide
🏆 What Sets OmniRoute Apart
📊 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.
| ⭐ Star the repo | Free — genuinely helps visibility | Star OmniRoute |
| 🐙 GitHub Sponsors | One-off or monthly · zero platform fee | github.com/sponsors/diegosouzapw |
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🐛 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 ~1.62B tokens/month from the documented, pool-deduplicated catalog above. Temporary provider signup credits can separately lift the first month to ~2.22B. 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.
✨ What's New
Recent highlights from v3.8.20 → v3.8.52. Full history in
CHANGELOG.md.
- ⚖️
quota-weightedrouting — the 20th combo strategy skips exhausted accounts, then draws among the rest in proportion to leftover quota ÷ in-flight load, keeping existing conversations pinned. → Auto-Combo - 🧰 Headless mode —
omniroute serve --headless(orOMNIROUTE_HEADLESS=1) runs only the/v1/*proxy engine, with the dashboard and dashboard-only subsystems off. → Headless Mode - 🔎 Model discovery —
/v1/modelsfilters by capability, context, kind and text, andPOST /v1/models/queryreturns a short deterministic shortlist with the same per-key visibility. → API Reference - 🔑 Per-key routing control — pin an API key to one model or combo with
forcedModel, and add or remove a key's models and combos atomically (/api/keys/{id}/access). → API Reference · OpenAPI - 🛡️ Finer PII controls — per-type selection, up to 20 validated custom masking patterns and per-type detection counters; masking itself stays opt-in. → Guardrails
- 🌍 67 languages — dashboard, docs mirrors and CLI, with
npm run i18n:add-localeadding a language everywhere in one command. → i18n Guide - 🎛️ 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/modelsordering — 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 — 15 registered
setup-*commands;omniroute runlaunches 7 CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Goose, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Gemini CLI);omniroute configuresupports 11 targets with an interactive provider+model picker and per-context favorites. → CLI Integrations - 🛰️ Remote mode — drive a remote OmniRoute with scoped tokens (
connect/contexts/tokens) + anantigravityOAuth 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, Magnific, Adobe Firefly, Segmind, and speech providers such as ElevenLabs. → 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 — cloud agents (Codex Cloud, Cursor, Devin, Jules), 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 375-provider catalog. → Providers
- 📡 Routing transparency — every response carries an
X-OmniRoute-Decisionheader naming the strategy/provider/latency that served it, a newcache-optimizedcombo strategy + Auto-CombocacheAffinityfactor route repeat requests back to the connection holding the cached prefix, and a read-only/v1/auto-combo/{channel}/candidatesendpoint exposes anauto/*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
- 🧩 Also in the box — plugin framework + marketplace, Omni/Agent/GitHub skills frameworks, Obsidian vault integration (22 MCP tools), OpenAI-compatible Batch & Files APIs, semantic response cache, gamification with leaderboards, ACP agent discovery (15 built-in agents), scheduled log export to BigQuery,
auto/chaosparallel multi-model fan-out, a Telegram bot bridge, an in-app version manager and LMArena-ELO free-provider rankings. → Docs
🤖 Compatible CLIs & Coding Agents
One config —
http://localhost:20128/v1— and every AI IDE or CLI runs on free & low-cost models.
