cheaper-inference

    cheaper-inference/OmniRoute

    #34 this week

    Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 375 providers (150+ free), 1,400+ models Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Cline & Copilot. Quota-aware auto-fallback, RTK+Caveman compression saves 15-95% tokens, MCP/A2A, Desktop/PWA. Built by 900+ contributors

    web
    a2a
    ai-agents
    ai-gateway
    anthropic
    claude
    TypeScript
    MIT
    85.5K stars
    12.9K forks
    490 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 8, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #6 among Web repositories ranked this week; #34 of 189 repositories with measured growth this week (top 18%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 432 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 19, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a universal AI gateway proxy that routes requests to over 350 AI providers and 1200+ models through a single endpoint with smart fallback and quota management.
    • Enables uninterrupted AI usage by automatically switching between subscription, API key, cheap, and free providers to avoid downtime and reduce costs.
    • Use for integrating multiple AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI with a unified API endpoint and consistent request format.
    • Use for developers in regions with restricted AI provider access by routing requests through configurable proxies and bypassing geographic blocks.
    • Use for managing and monitoring AI usage costs and quotas across multiple providers with detailed analytics and customizable fallback strategies.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Your universal API proxy — one endpoint, 100+ providers, zero downtime. Now with MCP Server (25 tools), A2A Protocol, Memory/Skills Systems & Electron Desktop App.

    Chat Completions • Embeddings • Image Generation • Video • Music • Audio • Reranking • Web Search • MCP Server • A2A Protocol • 100% TypeScript

    Excerpt from the cheaper-inference/OmniRoute README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 11: +769Aug 12: +687Aug 13: +707Aug 14: +679Aug 15: +623Aug 16: +566Aug 17: +652Aug 18: +654Aug 19: +733Aug 20: +753Aug 27: +848Aug 28: +592Aug 29: +478Aug 30: +526Aug 31: +670Sep 1: +563Sep 2: +541Sep 3: +532Sep 4: +366Sep 5: +367Sep 6: +271Sep 11: +724Sep 12: +196Oct 2: +153Oct 20: +405

    +40,448 stars over 90 days across 35 snapshot days; best day +848 on Aug 27.

    Forks

    12.9K+6.9K

    Open issues

    527+62

    Compared with peers in Web

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    Category median51.3K+6.2K40—

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