🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway

Never stop coding. Connect every AI tool to 231 providers — 50+ free — through one endpoint.

Plug Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot & Antigravity into FREE Claude / GPT / Gemini. Auto-fallback.

RTK + Caveman compression saves 15–95% tokens. Never hit limits.

~1.6B documented free tokens/month — up to ~2.1B in your first month with signup credits — aggregated across the free tiers, plus a long tail of permanently-free, no-cap providers, and the compression above stretches every one further. (how we count →)

💬 Join the community

Questions, provider tips, roadmap & support → Discord · Telegram · WhatsApp 🌍 Global / 🇧🇷 Brasil

🚀 Quick Start • 🎯 Combos • 🌐 Providers • 🔌 CLI & MCP • 🗜️ Compression • 🌍 Website

💥 The Promise • 🤔 Why • 🏆 What Sets Apart • 🤖 Compatible CLIs • 🖥️ Where It Runs • 🔒 Private • 🎬 In Action • 📚 Explore More • 📧 Support

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 40+ provider pools / 500+ models into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard (/dashboard/free-tiers).

• ~1.6B free tokens / month (steady) — and up to ~2.1B in your first month with signup credits.
• Pool-deduped, honest — we count each shared free pool once, so the headline isn't inflated by rate-limit ceilings the way multi-billion competitor claims are. (Counting every rate limit 24/7 would read ~10B; we don't publish that.)
• Plus the un-countable — permanently-free, no-token-cap providers (SiliconFlow, Z.AI GLM-Flash, Kilo, OpenCode Zen…) and a $10 OpenRouter top-up that unlocks +24M/mo, both surfaced separately so they never inflate the headline.
• Per-model breakdown, live used / remaining for the current month, and a transparent terms flag per provider.

Preview mockup — a real screenshot lands once the /dashboard/free-tiers page is validated. Full methodology (pool dedupe, credit tiers, provider terms): docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md.

One endpoint. 231 providers. Never stop building — and let OmniRoute pick the cheapest one that works.

Stop juggling 10 dashboards, dead API keys, and surprise bills.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│        Your IDE / CLI  (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline…)       │
└─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                          │ http://localhost:20128/v1
                          ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  OmniRoute — Smart Router                  │
│  RTK + Caveman compression · 15 routing strategies         │
│  Circuit breakers · TLS stealth · MCP · A2A · Guardrails   │
└─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
        ┌─────────────┬────┴────────┬─────────────┐
        ▼ Tier 1      ▼ Tier 2      ▼ Tier 3       ▼ Tier 4
   SUBSCRIPTION     API KEY        CHEAP          FREE
   Claude Code,     DeepSeek,      GLM $0.5,      Kiro, Qoder,
   Codex, Copilot   Groq, xAI      MiniMax $0.2   Pollinations
   quota out? ───▶  budget hit? ─▶ budget hit? ─▶ always on

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 — 15 routing strategies

_{The Auto-Combo engine scores every candidate on 9 factors (health, quota, cost, latency, success rate, freshness…) — see docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md.}

🧱 Resilience is built in (3 independent layers)

Combo: "always-on"                         Strategy: priority
  1. cc/claude-opus-4-7   ← subscription (use it fully)
  2. cx/gpt-5.5           ← second subscription
  3. glm/glm-5.1          ← cheap backup ($0.5/1M)
  4. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5 ← FREE, unlimited (never fails)
Result: 4 layers of fallback = zero downtime

_{📖 Auto-Combo Engine · Resilience Guide}

_{📊 Detailed comparison vs LiteLLM, OpenRouter & Portkey → docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md}

Recent highlights from v3.8.20 → v3.8.33. Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

• 🤖 One-command CLI/agent setup — a dedicated setup-* command configures each coding tool to route through OmniRoute (Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Continue, Cursor, Roo Code, Kilo Code, Crush, Goose, Qwen Code, Aider, OpenCode, Gemini CLI); omniroute launch / omniroute launch-codex are zero-config launchers. → CLI Integrations
• 🛰️ Remote mode — drive a remote OmniRoute from any machine with scoped access tokens (omniroute connect / omniroute contexts / omniroute tokens). → Remote Mode
• 🧭 Smarter auto-routing — OpenRouter-style auto/<category>:<tier> combos (e.g. auto/coding:fast, auto/reasoning:pro), live Arena-ELO + models.dev model intelligence, per-step account allowlists, provider-wildcard combo steps, nested combo-ref execution, sticky weighted selection, and web_search-aware routing to a configured model. → Auto-Combo
• 🗜️ Pluggable compression — an async compression pipeline with Compression Studios, a stable LLMLingua-2 ONNX engine, RTK, delegated Anthropic Context Editing, and a unified settings panel with named profiles + an active-profile selector as the single source for per-engine on/off + level. → Compression
• 🕵️ Transparent MITM decrypt (TPROXY) — capture & translate traffic from CLIs that ignore proxy env vars, with a per-SNI certificate authority and a trust-store installer. → MITM/TPROXY
• 💸 Cost telemetry everywhere — X-OmniRoute-* cost/usage headers on every endpoint (including media), a non-token cost engine, a cache-HIT X-OmniRoute-Cost-Saved header, and per-key USD spend quotas. → API Reference
• 🧠 Memory you control — opt-in int8 vector quantization (Qdrant + sqlite-vec), memory off by default, and a per-request x-omniroute-no-memory header. → Memory
• 🛡️ Security — a prompt-injection guard across every LLM route (backed by a red-team suite), plus a free DuckDuckGo last-resort web search. → Guardrails
• 🤝 More providers & agents — Cursor Cloud Agent (a 4th cloud agent), a refreshed 231-provider catalog (OrcaRouter, Wafer AI, OpenAdapter, dit.ai, TokenRouter, …), Vertex AI media generation (speech / transcription / music / video), and one-click account import from CLIProxyAPI (~/.cli-proxy-api/). → Providers
• ⚡ Local performance & infra — a one-click local Redis launcher (omniroute redis up, plus a dashboard Redis panel) and an optional Bifrost Go sidecar that offloads the hottest relay path (BIFROST_BASE_URL, with automatic fallback to the TypeScript path on timeout). → Environment

🤖 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	Gemini CLI	Cursor	Copilot	Continue
OpenCode	Kilo Code	Droid	OpenClaw	Kiro	Command

＋ also works with · Cline · Antigravity · Windsurf · AMP · Hermes · Qwen CLI · Roo · Continue · any OpenAI-compatible tool

_{📖 Per-tool setup for all 16+ tools → docs/reference/CLI-TOOLS.md · 🧩 OpenCode plugin → @omniroute/opencode-provider}

The most complete catalog of any open-source router: 231 providers, 50+ with a free tier, 11 free forever.

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

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

Your keys, your machine, your data. OmniRoute is a local proxy — it never phones home.

• 🏠 Runs 100% on your hardware — npm, Docker, desktop, or your phone. No OmniRoute cloud sits in the request path.
• 🔐 Credentials encrypted at rest — API keys & OAuth tokens sealed with AES-256-GCM.
• 🚫 Zero telemetry by default — your prompts go only to the providers you choose, nowhere else.
• 🛡️ Hardened gateway — API-key scoping, IP filtering, rate limits, prompt-injection guard, loopback-only process routes.
• 📜 MIT licensed & fully open-source — audit every line, self-host forever.

_{📖 Authorization · Guardrails · Compliance}

OmniRoute isn't just a server — it's a full command-line cockpit with 60+ commands, plus open agent protocols so an AI agent can drive OmniRoute by itself.

⌨️ 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 or A2A and any capable agent gets the keys to the whole gateway — routing, providers, combos, cache, compression, memory — autonomously.

# 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}

Why use many token when few token do trick? Every request passes through OmniRoute's compression pipeline transparently — no client changes. It's now a stack of 9 composable engines that run in order and mix & match per routing combo — building on ideas from RTK, Caveman (⭐ 51K+), LLMLingua-2, and Troglodita (PT-BR).

🧱 The 9-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. ✅

📖 How it works — pipeline, architecture & savings math

Client (10,000 tok) ──▶ OmniRoute Compression (9 engines) ──▶ Provider (~1,080 tok, up to 95% saved)

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. Auto-trigger compression by token threshold, or assign a compression pipeline per routing combo.

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

1) Install & run

npm install -g omniroute
omniroute

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 unlimited) 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 20128:20128 -v omniroute-data:/app/data diegosouzapw/omniroute:latest

🛠️ From source

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

📦 pnpm

pnpm install -g omniroute && pnpm approve-builds -g && 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. Build the image
podman build --target runner-base -t omniroute:base .

# 2. Fix data directory permissions for rootless Podman
mkdir -p data && podman unshare chown 1000:1000 ./data

# 3. Set runtime in .env, then run (see contrib/podman/ for Quadlet)
echo "CONTAINER_HOST=podman" >> .env
podman compose --profile base up -d

📖 Podman Guide — Quadlet setup, podman-compose, Quadlet.

🇧🇷 Português Guia completo

🇺🇸 English Complete walkthrough

🇷🇺 Русский Полное руководство

1. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5   (Kiro — unlimited)
2. if/kimi-k2-thinking    (Qoder — unlimited)
3. pol/gpt-5              (Pollinations — no key)
4. lc/longcat-flash-lite  (50M tok/day backup)
Compression: aggressive (~50%) → double your free quota · Cost: $0/mo

📸 Dashboard screenshots

Page	Screenshot	Page	Screenshot
Providers		Combos
Analytics		Health
Translator		Settings
CLI Tools		Usage Logs

• Runtime: Node.js 22.x or 24.x LTS (24 LTS recommended) — >=22.0.0 <23 || >=24.0.0 <27
• Language: TypeScript 6.0 — 100% TypeScript across src/ and open-sse/ (zero any in core modules since v2.0)
• Framework: Next.js 16 + React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4
• Database: better-sqlite3 (SQLite) + LowDB (JSON legacy) — domain state, proxy logs, MCP audit, routing decisions, memory, skills
• Schemas: Zod (MCP tool I/O validation, API contracts)
• Protocols: MCP (stdio/HTTP) + A2A v0.3 (JSON-RPC 2.0 + SSE)
• Streaming: Server-Sent Events (SSE) + WebSocket bridge (/v1/ws)
• Auth: OAuth 2.0 (PKCE) + JWT + API Keys + MCP Scoped Authorization
• Testing: Node.js test runner + Vitest (14,965 test cases across 517 files — unit, integration, E2E, security, ecosystem)
• Platforms: Desktop (Electron), Android (Termux), PWA (any browser)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions (auto npm publish + Docker Hub on release)
• Website: omniroute.online
• Package: npmjs.com/package/omniroute
• Docker: hub.docker.com/r/diegosouzapw/omniroute
• Resilience: Circuit breaker, exponential backoff, anti-thundering herd, TLS spoofing, auto-combo self-healing

📘 Getting Started

…view the full README on GitHub.