🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway

💰 ~1.62B 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 489 free-tier entries across 35 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-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 / Portal

📈 The Gateway Keeps Growing

| | v3.8.49 | v3.8.50 | v3.8.51+ | | ------------------------- | :-----: | :-----------------------: | :---------: | | 🌐 Providers | 290 | 357 | 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 oc/… (OpenCode Free) directly. 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 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.

🇧🇷 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

⚠️ 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 ~1.62B 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 → v3.8.50. 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 — 13 registered setup-* commands; omniroute run launches 7 CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Goose, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Gemini CLI); omniroute configure supports 10 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, 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 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
• 🧩 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/chaos parallel 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.

📖 Per-tool setup for all 36 tools (26 CLI Code's + 10 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 gemini 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

🌐 357 AI Providers — 152 Catalog-Marked Free

357 registered providers across the canonical chat, media, search, local, cloud-agent and system collections, including 152 carrying hasFree: true discovery metadata. The chat model registry covers 229 providers / 2,554 distinct provider-model pairs / 1,283 raw model IDs; the separate free-budget catalog has 491 per-model rows, 35 recurring pools and 54 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 · Menu-bar tray · 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

🎩 New: OmniRouteTray — your gateway, living in the menu bar

omniroute serve is happiest when it's always on. OmniRouteTray turns that into a set-and-forget menu-bar app for macOS: it starts the server, keeps it alive across reboots, updates it in place, and puts your live token budget one click away — no terminal window left open, no npm install -g omniroute to babysit.

Built with Tauri v2 (a Rust core the size of a rounding error), it ships its own signed Node 24 runtime and manages an app-owned OmniRoute install, so it never fights your global node/bun. It shares your existing ~/.omniroute/ config and database — so it's the same OmniRoute you already run, just with a hat on. 🎩

brew install --cask zoispag/tap/omniroute-tray

Prefer a download? Grab the latest .dmg from Releases. Source, issues and build docs live at zoispag/omniroute-tray. 💛 A community project by @zoispag — not an official OmniRoute release.

🔒 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 setu