🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway

💰 ~1.51B Free Tokens / Month

Stacking free tiers by hand is painful — dozens of SDKs, dozens of rate limits, and no idea how much you actually have. OmniRoute catalogs 455 free-tier entries across 40 recurring pool keys and computes the token headline from the 20 pools with a published positive monthly budget, deduplicated by shared pool. The result stays visible 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.

⭐ Star the repo if OMNIROUTE helped you save money and make your work easier.

💬 Join the community

👋 Follow the maintainer — get new providers, releases & tips first:

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

📈 The Gateway Keeps Growing

| | v3.8.49 | v3.8.50 | v3.8.51+ | | ------------------------- | :-----: | :-----------------------: | :---------: | | 🌐 Providers | 290 | 352 | more queued | | 🧠 Unique chat model IDs | 1185 | 1312 | — | | 🖼️ Modality Bridge | — | 🆕 vision + audio + video | — | | 📡 Radar free catalog | — | 🆕 opt-in | — | | ⚖️ Quota-aware scheduling | — | 🆕 Quota-Share | — | | 📊 Quota telemetry | — | 🆕 live | — |

→ Roadmap — riding the rail to v3.9.0 LTS

🧩 Available

🆓 Works the second you install it — no keys, no config

# 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/

💥 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]

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

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.

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

🎯 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:

🔀 Or build your own — 19 routing strategies

All 19 strategies — mix & match per combo step:

The Auto-Combo engine scores every candidate on 15 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.

🇧🇷 PIX — instant, no fees (Brazil)

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Pix copia-e-cola:

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⚠️ Send each coin only on the network shown — sending on the wrong network can lose the funds.

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

📡 OmniRoute Radar

The main free-tier headline remains ~1.51B tokens/month from the documented, pool-deduplicated catalog above. Temporary provider signup credits can separately lift the first month to ~2.13B. 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 → v3.8.50. 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 — 12 registered setup-* commands; omniroute run launches 7 CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Goose, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Gemini CLI); omniroute configure supports 9 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) + 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 352-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.

📖 Per-tool setup for all 35 tools (26 CLI Code's + 9 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

🌐 352 AI Providers — 154 Catalog-Marked Free

352 registered providers across the canonical chat, media, search, local, cloud-agent and system collections, including 154 carrying hasFree: true discovery metadata. The chat model registry covers 268 providers / 2,566 distinct provider-model pairs / 1,312 raw model IDs; the separate free-budget catalog has 455 per-model rows, 40 recurring pools and 56 recurring/keyless free-forever providers. These are different denominators by design; definitions and pool-deduped calculations live in the Provider Reference and Free Tiers.

🏢 Every major lab — through one endpoint

…and 330+ more — every icon resolves live from the dashboard's provider catalog. 📖 Provider Reference

🆓 Free Forever — $0, no card

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

🖥️ Where OmniRoute Runs — Anywhere

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

📖 Docker Guide · Desktop · Termux · PWA · OpenCode

🧩 New: OmniRoute inside VS Code's native Copilot Chat

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

🔒 Private & Local-First

📖 Authorization · Guardrails · Compliance

🔌 Full CLI + A2A & MCP

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

🗜️ Save 15–95% Tokens — Automatically

📖 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: