# 🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway
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-> 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 **43 provider pools / 460+ models** into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard (`/dashboard/free-tiers`).
+> 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 **43 provider pools / 516 models** into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard (`/dashboard/free-tiers`).
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> Animated summary of the live `/dashboard/free-tiers` page. Full methodology (pool dedupe, credit tiers, provider terms): **[docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md](docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md)**.
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-> 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. A CI gate (`check:docs-counts`) fails the build if this headline drifts from the code.
+> 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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### 💬 Join the community
+**👋 Follow the maintainer — get new providers, releases & tips first:**
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+[](https://github.com/diegosouzapw)
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-[**🚀 Quick Start**](#-quick-start) • [**🎯 Combos**](#-combos--the-flagship) • [**🌐 Providers**](#-290-ai-providers--90-free) • [**🔌 CLI & MCP**](#-full-cli--a2a--mcp) • [**🗜️ Compression**](#%EF%B8%8F-save-1595-tokens--automatically) • [**🌍 Website**](https://omniroute.online)
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# 🆓 Works the second you install it — no keys, no config
-> **Install → point your tool at the endpoint → it already answers.** OmniRoute ships with keyless free providers (OpenCode Free, Felo) already wired into the `auto` combo, so a **fresh install responds out of the box** — no API key, no signup, no configuration.
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```bash
# Fresh install, zero credentials — `auto` already works:
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-d '{"model":"auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
```
-- ✅ **`auto` responds immediately** — OmniRoute builds a virtual combo from the built-in keyless free providers and routes to a healthy one, with no setup.
-- ➕ **Add more providers anytime** — drop in a Claude / GPT / Gemini key (or any of the 290 providers) from the dashboard and they join the `auto` pool automatically.
-- 🎛️ **Build your own free combos** — chain your free tiers with any of the 19 routing strategies so you never run out of quota.
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Prefer a specific free backend? Call it directly, e.g. `oc/…` (OpenCode Free) or `felo/…` (Felo). Then graduate to `auto` and let OmniRoute pick.
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# 💥 The Promise
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-## 🤝 Supported by our Open Source Friends
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```bash
# Fresh install, zero credentials — `auto` already works:
@@ -135,12 +164,10 @@ curl http://localhost:20128/v1/chat/completions \
-d '{"model":"auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
```
-- ✅ **`auto` responds immediately** — OmniRoute builds a virtual combo from the built-in keyless free providers and routes to a healthy one, with no setup.
-- ➕ **Add more providers anytime** — drop in a Claude / GPT / Gemini key (or any of the 290 providers) from the dashboard and they join the `auto` pool automatically.
-- 🎛️ **Build your own free combos** — chain your free tiers with any of the 19 routing strategies so you never run out of quota.
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Prefer a specific free backend? Call it directly, e.g. `oc/…` (OpenCode Free) or `felo/…` (Felo). Then graduate to `auto` and let OmniRoute pick.
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> 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`
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| 18 | `fusion` | Fan out to a panel of models + a judge synthesizes one answer 🧬 |
| 19 | `pipeline` | Chain steps — each target's output feeds the next one 🔗 |
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-Enforced in the hot path **before** the request leaves OmniRoute, with per-(key, model) caps + session stickiness for prompt-cache integrity (now with a per-combo / global disable toggle). 📖 [Quota Sharing Engine](docs/routing/QUOTA_SHARE.md)
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### 🧱 Resilience is built in (3 independent layers)
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-| Feature | OmniRoute | Other routers |
-| -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ------------- |
-| 🌐 Providers | **290** | 20–100 |
-| 🆓 Free providers | **90+ (40+ free forever)** | 1–5 |
-| 🔀 Routing strategies | **19** strategies | 1–3 |
-| 🗜️ Token compression | **RTK + Caveman stacked (15–95%)** | None / 20–40% |
-| 🧰 Built-in MCP server | **104 tools, 3 transports, 31 scopes** | Rare |
-| 🤝 A2A agent protocol | **6 skills, JSON-RPC 2.0** | None |
-| 🧠 Memory (FTS5 + vector) | **Yes** | Rare |
-| 🛡️ Guardrails (PII, injection, vision) | **Yes** | Rare |
-| ☁️ Cloud agents | **Codex, Cursor, Devin, Jules** | None |
-| 🥷 TLS fingerprint stealth | **JA3/JA4 via wreq-js** | None |
-| 🖥️ Multi-platform | **Web · Desktop · Termux · PWA** | Web only |
-| 🌍 i18n | **43 locales** | 0–4 |
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-📊 Detailed comparison vs LiteLLM, OpenRouter & Portkey → [`docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md`](docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md)
+📊 Full methodology & per-feature detail vs 9router, OpenRouter, CLIProxyAPI & LiteLLM → [`docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md`](docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md)