Release v3.8.28 (#4053)

* chore(release): open v3.8.28 development cycle

* fix(ws): warm SSE auth import on LiveWS startup; relocate boot test to integration (#4063)

The live dashboard WebSocket sidecar lazily import()-ed the SSE auth module
inside the connection handler, only on the API-key path. That cold import pulls
in hundreds of transitive modules and takes ~7s under tsx, blocking the
single-threaded event loop. The first API-key WebSocket connection therefore
stalled the loop long enough that any connection arriving in that window — e.g.
a same-origin cookie client — could not complete its handshake and timed out.

This was deterministic, not an "env flake": the boot test fires an API-key
connection immediately followed by a cookie connection, so the cookie connection
always raced the cold import and timed out (reproduced 3/3 locally and red on
every CI run; proven via instrumented probes — reversing the order or warming
the module first makes both connections open in ~20ms).

Fix:
- Memoize the auth-module import and warm it once at startup (before listen), so
  connection handling never pays the cold-import cost. Real improvement: the
  first API-key client no longer stalls the event loop for concurrent clients.
- Relocate the boot test from tests/unit/cli to tests/integration. It spawns a
  real subprocess + WS server + SQLite (~9-11s); under the unit suite's
  --test-concurrency=20 it contended for CPU and destabilized the shard. The
  serial integration runner is its correct home; it still guards #4004's
  cookie-parse fix on every PR via the integration CI job.
- Bump the test's startup/overall timeouts to absorb the eager auth warm.

Makes `npm run test:unit` deterministically green (the only remaining unit red).

Validated: relocated test 3/3 green via the integration runner (was 3/3 red);
typecheck:core + eslint clean; confirmed it no longer matches the test:unit glob
and does match tests/integration/*.test.ts.

* fix(ws): start LiveWS sidecar with cwd at package root (#4055) (#4064)

* chore(deps): bump ossf/scorecard-action from 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 (#4045)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Patch de SHA do ossf/scorecard-action (2.4.0→2.4.3), mantém SHA-pin. Reds de CI são exclusivamente os shards flaky pré-existentes branch-wide (Unit 7/8, Integration, Coverage 7/8, Node 1/2) — não relacionados ao bump (PR deps-only).

* deps: bump electron from 42.4.0 to 42.4.1 in /electron (#4049)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Patch do electron (42.4.0→42.4.1). Reds de CI: shards flaky pré-existentes + PR Test Policy = falso-positivo (mudança deps-only sob electron/ não comporta teste de código) + Node 26(2/2) sem step (flake/infra). Precedente #3913/#3914 (electron dependabot mergeado nessas condições).

* fix(auto): resolve built-in auto catalog combos (#4058)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Resolve os IDs de catálogo `auto/*` built-in (combos virtuais) — corrige o 400 "No auto combos configured" em auto/best-coding etc. Ajuste de review: os mapas AUTO_TEMPLATE_VARIANTS/VALID_AUTO_VARIANTS duplicados em chat.ts e chatHelpers.ts foram extraídos para open-sse/services/autoCombo/builtinCatalog.ts (DRY), devolvendo chatHelpers.ts <800 LOC; baseline de chat.ts rebaselinado 1432→1458 (lógica nova). Fast QG + semgrep + dast verdes; 22/22 testes.

* chore(docs): update Discord invite link to a non-expiring one (#4067)

* chore(deps): freeze @huggingface/transformers in dependabot (hard-pin) (#4066)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Congela @huggingface/transformers no dependabot (pin exato 3.5.2, load-bearing p/ LLMLingua + memory embeddings, VPS-validado #4014). Fast QG + semgrep + dast verdes.

* ci(quality): flip TIA impacted-unit-tests gate from advisory to blocking (#4069)

The pre-existing release unit test-debt that kept the TIA "Impacted unit tests"
step advisory has been cleared:
- #4030 restored 16 lossless Zod/registry reds (from the oyi77 modularize refactors).
- #4063 fixed the last red — the LiveWS boot test — which was a real deterministic
  event-loop stall in the WS sidecar (cold ~7s lazy auth import racing a second
  connection), not an env flake; fixed (warm the import at startup) and relocated to
  the integration suite.

A full workflow_dispatch ci.yml run on release/v3.8.28 then showed all 8 Unit Tests
shards green. The remaining Integration Tests / Quality Ratchet reds are pre-existing
and unrelated (combo/resilience env-flakes; eslint/i18n baseline drift).

Removing continue-on-error makes PR->release block on unit-test regressions in the
TIA-selected impacted set (fail-safe still runs the full unit suite on hub/unmapped
changes). typecheck:core was already blocking. Closes the fast-gates "no tests on
PR->release" hole (Quality Gate v2 / Fase 9, P2).

* docs(compression): document LLMLingua optional deps + on-demand install (#4061)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Docs LLMLingua optional deps + on-demand install (F3.1).

* feat(dashboard): Combo Studio connection-cooldown badge (U1b Slice 2) (#4068)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Combo Studio connection-cooldown badge (U1b Slice 2 / F5.1).

* feat(compression): record Context Editing telemetry (engine: context-editing) (#4062)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Context Editing telemetry (F4.1).

* feat(sse): Context Editing relay coverage + 400-fallback (#4065)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Context Editing relay coverage (cc-*) + 400-fallback (F4.2/F4.3). Conflito de file-size-baseline.json (vs #4062) resolvido por união (ambas justificativas + base.ts 1292 + chatCore.ts 5898). Validado local no tree mergeado: typecheck:core ✓, eslint ✓, check:file-size ✓, 4/4 testes ✓; semgrep + semgrep-cloud verdes. Fast QG enfileirado (saturação de runner) — mergeado nos gates de política verificados (precedente #4034/#4020).

* feat(providers): add OrcaRouter (OpenAI-compatible routing gateway) (#4070)

Integrado em release/v3.8.28. Adiciona o provider OrcaRouter (OpenAI-compatible, API-key, DefaultExecutor). Ajuste de review: rebaseline de file-size de providers.ts 3147→3159 (+12 da entrada OrcaRouter). Validado local no tree sincronizado: provider-consistency ✓, docs-counts STRICT 227 ✓, typecheck:core ✓, teste 3/3 ✓, eslint ✓; semgrep + semgrep-cloud verdes. Fast QG/dast enfileirados (saturação de runner) — merge nos gates de política verificados (precedente #4034/#4065).

* test(infra): isolate DATA_DIR per test process; raise Stryker concurrency 1→4 (#4078)

* test(infra): isolate DATA_DIR per test process; raise Stryker concurrency 1→4

Every test process resolved DATA_DIR to the same default (~/.omniroute) when the env
var was unset (src/lib/dataPaths.ts::resolveDataDir), so concurrent test files opened
the SAME on-disk storage.sqlite. node:test spawns a process per file and Stryker spawns
one per sandbox, so this shared file caused cross-file state races:
- SQLite lock contention that hung `npm run test:unit` under high --test-concurrency
  (the ~95-min local hang), and
- the non-deterministic baseline that forced stryker.conf.json to concurrency: 1, which
  in turn could not finish the ~15k-mutant run inside the nightly timeout (the cancelled
  2026-06-16/17 nightly-mutation runs) — blocking Quality Gate v2 / Fase 9 Onda 2.

open-sse/utils/setupPolyfill.ts could NOT host the fix: it is imported by production
(bin/omniroute.mjs, proxyFetch.ts, proxyDispatcher.ts), where redirecting DATA_DIR would
point the live SQLite DB at a throwaway temp dir. So this adds a TEST-ONLY
tests/_setup/isolateDataDir.ts that gives each process its own temp DATA_DIR when none is
set (tests that set DATA_DIR explicitly still win), wired via --import into the test,
mutation and CI invocations.

Verified:
- Stryker dry-run A/B at concurrency=4: FAILS without the isolation import
  (account-fallback-service tap exit 9, a cross-file race) and PASSES with it.
- Full `npm run test:unit` green with isolation (0 fail; a one-off
  chatcore-translation-paths timeout flake did not reproduce and passes 3/3 isolated)
  and noticeably faster — the DB lock contention is gone.
- New tests/unit/isolate-datadir.test.ts guards the contract (unique temp DATA_DIR when
  unset; explicit DATA_DIR respected).

Wired the --import into: package.json (13 test scripts), stryker.conf.json (tap.nodeArgs
+ concurrency 1→4), .github/workflows/quality.yml (TIA step), ci.yml (the 5
unit/coverage/integration commands), and bumped nightly-mutation.yml timeout 120→180 for
the first cold run before the incremental cache is seeded.

* ci(quality): run the TIA gate at CI concurrency (4) to stop oversubscription flakes

The TIA "Impacted unit tests" step (made blocking in #4069) ran its fail-safe via
`npm run test:unit` — concurrency=20, tuned for multi-core dev machines. On a 4-vCPU CI
runner that is 5x oversubscribed, so timing-sensitive tests flake under the load (e.g.
`db-backup-extended` "The database connection is not open", `chatcore-translation-paths`
upstream-timeout). That intermittently fails a blocking gate on legitimate PRs — exactly
what surfaced on the DATA_DIR-isolation PR, whose package.json/workflow changes trip the
__RUN_ALL__ fail-safe.

Run both the impacted set and the fail-safe at --test-concurrency=4, matching the stable
ci.yml unit job. Adds a `test:unit:ci` script (test:unit at concurrency=4). The DATA_DIR
isolation in this PR keeps the parallel run race-free, so the only change here is matching
the runner's core count. Verified locally: db-backup-extended passes 8/8 in isolation
(5 with isolation, 3 without).

* docs(quality-gates): reconcile gate inventory with ci.yml + add ROI rationalization backlog (#4095)

The "authoritative" gate inventory in QUALITY_GATES.md had drifted from ci.yml: it omitted
9 wired gates — `audit:deps`, `check:tracked-artifacts`, `check:lockfile`, `check:licenses`
(lint job), `check:dead-code`, `check:cognitive-complexity`, `check:type-coverage`,
`check:codeql-ratchet` (quality-gate job), and `check:pr-evidence` (pr-test-policy job).
You can't rationalize an inventory you can't trust, so this reconciles it first.

Adds those 9 rows to their job tables and a "Rationalization Backlog (ROI review)" section
capturing the Fase 9 Onda 3 findings: mechanical merge/dedup candidates (CVE scanners
audit:deps↔osv, the two complexity ESLint passes, cycles↔circular-deps, the two /api
anti-hallucination gates, the doubly-run check:docs-sync, check:node-runtime ×11) and the
operator-only flip/drop decisions (typecheck:noimplicit vs the type-coverage ratchet,
test:vitest:ui parked fails, check:secrets frozen FPs, openapi-security-tiers, pr-evidence,
the orphaned semgrep baseline). Also flags the undocumented advisory docs-lint job and the
standalone scanner workflows.

Docs-only — no gate behavior changes. The merges (CI changes) and flips (policy) are
deferred to operator-scoped follow-ups; this PR only makes the map accurate.

* test(dashboard): smoke e2e for the Combo Live Studio page (#4075)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* fix(sse): friendly 413 message for ChatGPT web payload-too-large (#4080)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(sse): port Claude Code quota-probe bypass + command meta-request helpers (#4083)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(api): exact offline token counting for count_tokens fallback via tiktoken (#4087)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(compression): RTK learn/discover (sample source + API + UI) (#4088)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(dashboard): 2026-06-17 free-tier refresh — honest catalog, uncapped + boost tiers, Layout A budget table (#4089)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(mitm): capture-pipeline self-test route (Gap 12) (#4093)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* fix(mitm): crash-safe system-state teardown + socket timeouts (ProxyBridge-inspired hardening) (#4084)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (Fast QG TIA red = 3 pre-existing timing flakes verified passing locally 82/82; PR own tests green)

* feat(mitm): attribute intercepted requests to originating process (Gap 1) (#4085)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (Fast QG TIA red = 3 pre-existing timing flakes verified passing locally 82/82; PR own tests green)

* fix(sse): route image requests only to confirmed-vision combo targets (#4071)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* fix(security): injection guard respects INJECTION_GUARD_MODE DB feature flag (#4077)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* fix(ws): proxy LAN /live-ws upgrades and add unset JWT_SECRET warning (#4079)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* fix(dev): force webpack in custom dev server (Turbopack 16.2.x panics) (#4092)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* ci(quality): dedup the doubly-run check:docs-sync + record validated ROI backlog (#4099)

Onda 3 (gate ROI-review) Phase 2. Two parts, both low-risk:

1. Remove the standalone `check:docs-sync` from the `lint` job — it already runs in the
   `docs-sync-strict` job (via `check:docs-all`) and the husky pre-commit hook, so the
   `lint`-job copy was a pure duplicate. No coverage lost.

2. Update the Rationalization Backlog in QUALITY_GATES.md with trust-but-verify findings:
   several "obvious" merges/flips from the ROI review turned out to hide debt and are NOT
   clean drop-ins —
   - CVE merge (audit:deps→osv): different semantics (hard high/critical vs regression-ratchet) — keep both.
   - cycles→circular-deps: dpdm reports 91 cycles (can't promote to blocking) and is broader-scope than the green curated check:cycles — keep both.
   - openapi-security-tiers flip: blocked by traffic-inspector routes missing the x-loopback-only annotation.
   - complexity + /api merges: valid but real config/script surgery — deferred.
   - node-runtime ×11: ~10s savings vs a cheap guard — low ROI, skip.

   The remaining flips (typecheck:noimplicit, test:vitest:ui, check:secrets, pr-evidence,
   semgrep) are operator policy decisions, left for the owner.

* chore(deps): bump actions/github-script from 7 to 9 (#4046)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (dependabot GH-Action bump; SHA-pin preserved)

* chore(deps): bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 6 (#4048)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (dependabot GH-Action bump; SHA-pin preserved)

* chore(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 (#4044)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (dependabot GH-Action bump; SHA-pin preserved)

* chore(deps): bump actions/cache from 4.3.0 to 5.0.5 (#4047)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (dependabot GH-Action bump; SHA-pin preserved)

* deps: bump the development group with 10 updates (#4051)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (dependabot dev group; cyclonedx 4->5 verified compatible with the SBOM invocation --ignore-npm-errors/--output-format JSON/--output-file)

* fix(dashboard): event-driven fail-open auto-refresh for embedded log views (#4054) (#4103)

The Request Logger gated each auto-refresh tick on a static
document.visibilityState === "visible" read. Hosts that report a permanent
non-"visible" state without ever firing a visibilitychange event (Docker
dashboard wrappers, embedded/proxied webviews) froze auto-refresh entirely —
only the manual Refresh button worked, a regression from 3.8.24's unconditional
polling.

The pause is now event-driven and fail-open: visibleRef starts true and is only
flipped to false on a real visibilitychange → hidden transition, so a host that
never signals a genuine background transition keeps polling, while normal
browser tabs still pause when actually backgrounded.

Regression test reproduces the misreporting-host case (RED) and the perf guard
is re-encoded under the event-driven semantics.

* fix(docker): raise build-stage Node heap to stop production-build OOM (#4076) (#4104)

The Docker builder stage ran `npm run build` with V8's default heap ceiling
(~2 GB). After #4052 forced the heavier webpack engine (Turbopack panics on this
Next.js version), the production optimization pass exceeded that ceiling and the
build died with "FATAL ERROR: ... JavaScript heap out of memory" at
[builder] npm run build.

The builder stage now sets NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size (default 4096 MB,
overridable via --build-arg OMNIROUTE_BUILD_MEMORY_MB) before the build; the
value propagates to the spawned next build (resolveNextBuildEnv spreads
process.env). Build-only — the runtime heap on the runner stage is unchanged,
and CI/local builds (which invoke npm run build directly) are unaffected.

Regression guard: tests/unit/dockerfile-build-heap-4076.test.ts asserts the
builder stage sets the heap ceiling, before npm run build, at >= 4096 MB.

* feat(agent-bridge): portable JSON import/export of config (Gap 4) (#4094)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(cli): add 'omniroute launch' zero-config Claude Code launcher (#4097)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (Fast QG TIA red = pre-existing env-doc-contract drift [MITM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS/TURBOPACK from #4084/#4092] + opencode-plugin-dist env flake; #4097 own test 3/3 green)

* feat(mitm): loop-guard self-check + verbosity control in server.cjs (Gaps 14+15) (#4101)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (rebased onto release — dropped the already-squash-merged #4084 commits; only the Gaps 14+15 loop-guard/verbosity delta remains)

* feat(sse): generic 400 field-downgrade retry + Groq field stripping (#4096)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* feat(providers): add Wafer AI (Anthropic-compatible, Bearer auth) (#4098)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28

* chore(docs)

* fix(responses): clear /v1/responses keepalive timer on cancel/abort (timer + CPU leak) (#4105)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r7).

* perf(gemini): cache reasoning close-tag regex instead of recompiling per token (#4106)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r7).

* fix(usage): reap orphaned pending-request details (unbounded memory leak) (#4107)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r7).

* perf(stream): use structuredClone instead of JSON round-trip for per-chunk reasoning split (#4108)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r7).

* fix(dashboard): restore Update Available banner with npm-binary-free version fallback (#4100) (#4112)

getLatestNpmVersion() derived the latest version only from the npm CLI binary and returned null on any error, so Docker/desktop/locked-down installs without npm on PATH silently hid the home banner even when an update existed. Add resolveLatestVersion() (npm CLI -> registry HTTP fallback -> logged warning) and harden version parsing for v-prefix/pre-release strings. Extracted into testable src/lib/system/versionCheck.ts with TDD coverage.

* fix(auth): prune expired entries from login brute-force guard map (unbounded growth) (#4111)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* fix(logger): hard-cap the error-dedup map to bound memory under unique-message bursts (#4113)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* fix(circuit-breaker): enforce MAX_REGISTRY_SIZE (declared but never applied) (#4114)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* perf(obfuscation): cache per-word regexes instead of recompiling every request (#4109)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* perf(registry): precompute model->provider index in parseModelFromRegistry (#4110)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* fix(timers): unref background interval timers so they don't block clean shutdown (#4117)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* fix(webhook): clear abort timer in finally to avoid dangling timers on fetch error (#4115)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* fix(combo): detach per-target listener from shared hedge abort signal (#4116)

Integrated into release/v3.8.28 (r8)

* chore(release): finalize v3.8.28 CHANGELOG + reconcile env-doc contract

- Build the complete [3.8.28] CHANGELOG section (55 bullets) covering every
  commit since v3.8.27, grouped by type with PR back-references and human
  contributor attribution (artickc's memory-leak/perf cluster, OrcaRouter,
  Wafer AI, MITM gaps, etc.); move the OrcaRouter bullet out of [Unreleased].
- Inject the EN [3.8.28] section into all 41 i18n CHANGELOG mirrors (parity).
- Reconcile the env/docs contract: document MITM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS + MITM_VERBOSE
  in .env.example and ENVIRONMENT.md; allowlist the framework-internal TURBOPACK
  and the Claude Code ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN in check-env-doc-sync.
- Fix 3 broken relative links in docs/providers/AGENTROUTER.md (regressed when
  the file was relocated this cycle) so docs-sync-strict passes.

* fix(quality): treat test→test renames as relocations, not deletions

The anti-test-masking gate's subcheck-1 collected deleted AND renamed test
files via `--diff-filter=DR --name-only` and flagged every one as "deleted —
human review required", contradicting its own documented contract ("DELETADOS
ou renomeados-e-NÃO-substituídos"): a rename test→test IS a substitution (the
test moved, coverage preserved). This false-positived on #4063's legitimate
relocation of live-ws-startup.test.ts (unit/cli → integration, asserts 2→2)
and would block every PR that relocates a test — surfacing only at release-day
because the Fast QG (PR→release) doesn't run test-masking.

The gate now parses `--name-status -M`: true deletions and test→non-test
renames still flag; a test→test rename is run through the assert-reduction
check across the move, so a clean relocation passes while gutting-via-rename
(dropped asserts / new tautologies / skips) still fires. Adds
partitionDeletedRenamed + 6 regression tests.

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README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
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+[![50+ Free](https://img.shields.io/badge/50%2B-Free_Tiers-00B894?style=for-the-badge)](#-227-ai-providers--50-free)
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+**Questions, provider tips, roadmap & support → [Discord](https://discord.gg/EkzRkpzKYt) · [Telegram](https://t.me/omnirouteOficial) · WhatsApp [🌍 Global](https://chat.whatsapp.com/JI7cDQ1GyaiDHhVBpLxf8b?mode=gi_t) / [🇧🇷 Brasil](https://chat.whatsapp.com/BTGJXIyjeNIIgExvTMGGhI)**
 
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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
 <br/>
 
-[**🚀 Quick Start**](#-quick-start) • [**🎯 Combos**](#-combos--the-flagship) • [**🌐 Providers**](#-226-ai-providers--50-free) • [**🔌 CLI & MCP**](#-full-cli--a2a--mcp) • [**🗜️ Compression**](#%EF%B8%8F-save-1595-tokens--automatically) • [**🌍 Website**](https://omniroute.online)
+[**🚀 Quick Start**](#-quick-start) • [**🎯 Combos**](#-combos--the-flagship) • [**🌐 Providers**](#-227-ai-providers--50-free) • [**🔌 CLI & MCP**](#-full-cli--a2a--mcp) • [**🗜️ Compression**](#%EF%B8%8F-save-1595-tokens--automatically) • [**🌍 Website**](https://omniroute.online)
 
 [💥 The Promise](#-the-promise) • [🤔 Why](#-why-omniroute) • [🏆 What Sets Apart](#-what-sets-omniroute-apart) • [🤖 Compatible CLIs](#-compatible-clis--coding-agents) • [🖥️ Where It Runs](#%EF%B8%8F-where-omniroute-runs--anywhere) • [🔒 Private](#-private--local-first) • [🎬 In Action](#-omniroute-in-action) • [📚 Explore More](#-explore-more) • [📧 Support](#-support--community)
 
@@ -114,14 +114,15 @@
 
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-# 💰 ~1.9B Free Tokens / Month
+# 💰 ~1.5B Free Tokens / Month
 
 </div>
 
-> 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 **50+ provider pools / 530 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 **40+ provider pools / 500+ models** into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard (`/dashboard/free-tiers`).
 
-- **~1.9B free tokens / month** (steady) — and **up to ~2.5B 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. (The naïve per-model sum would read ~8B; we don't publish that.)
+- **~1.5B 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.
 
 ![Free-Tier Budget card (preview mockup)](docs/screenshots/free-tier-budget-card.svg)
@@ -136,11 +137,11 @@
 
 </div>
 
-> One endpoint. **226 providers.** Never stop building — and let OmniRoute pick the cheapest one that works.
+> One endpoint. **227 providers.** Never stop building — and let OmniRoute pick the cheapest one that works.
 
 <table>
   <tr>
-    <td width="33%" valign="top"><b>🚫 Never hit limits</b><br/><sub>Auto-fallback across 226 providers in milliseconds. Quota out? Next provider takes over — zero downtime.</sub></td>
+    <td width="33%" valign="top"><b>🚫 Never hit limits</b><br/><sub>Auto-fallback across 227 providers in milliseconds. Quota out? Next provider takes over — zero downtime.</sub></td>
     <td width="33%" valign="top"><b>💸 Save up to 95% tokens</b><br/><sub>RTK + Caveman stacked compression cuts 15–95% of eligible tokens (~89% avg on tool-heavy sessions).</sub></td>
     <td width="33%" valign="top"><b>🆓 $0 to start</b><br/><sub>50+ providers with a free tier, 11 free <i>forever</i> (Kiro, Qoder, Pollinations, LongCat…). No card needed.</sub></td>
   </tr>
@@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ Result: 4 layers of fallback = zero downtime
 
 | Feature                                | OmniRoute                                                   | Other routers |
 | -------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
-| 🌐 Providers                           | **226**                                                     | 20–100        |
+| 🌐 Providers                           | **227**                                                     | 20–100        |
 | 🆓 Free providers                      | **50+ (11 free forever)**                                   | 1–5           |
 | 🔀 Routing strategies                  | **15** (priority, weighted, cost-optimized, context-relay…) | 1–3           |
 | 🗜️ Token compression                   | **RTK + Caveman stacked (15–95%)**                          | None / 20–40% |
@@ -319,11 +320,11 @@ Result: 4 layers of fallback = zero downtime
 
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-# 🌐 226 AI Providers — 50+ Free
+# 🌐 227 AI Providers — 50+ Free
 
 </div>
 
-> The most complete catalog of any open-source router: **226 providers**, **50+ with a free tier**, **11 free forever**.
+> The most complete catalog of any open-source router: **227 providers**, **50+ with a free tier**, **11 free forever**.
 
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@@ -445,17 +446,17 @@ claude mcp add-server omniroute --type http --url http://localhost:20128/api/mcp
 
 Engines run in pipeline order; each is independently toggleable and configurable per combo:
 
-| #   | Engine            | What it does                                                              |
-| --- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| 1   | **Session-Dedup** | Drops content repeated across turns (content-addressed, cross-turn)      |
-| 2   | **CCR**           | Archives large blocks behind retrieve markers, fetched on demand         |
-| 3   | **RTK**           | Smart tool-result filtering, dedup & truncation (command-aware)          |
-| 4   | **Headroom**      | Lossless tabular compaction of homogeneous JSON arrays (~30%+)           |
-| 5   | **Caveman**       | Rule-based prose compression (~65–75% on output)                         |
-| 6   | **LLMLingua-2**   | ML semantic pruning via MobileBERT ONNX — code-safe, async               |
-| 7   | **Lite**          | Whitespace + image-URL trimming (latency-light baseline)                 |
-| 8   | **Aggressive**    | Summarization + progressive aging of old turns                          |
-| 9   | **Ultra**         | Heuristic token pruning with an optional small-model (SLM) tier          |
+| #   | Engine            | What it does                                                        |
+| --- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| 1   | **Session-Dedup** | Drops content repeated across turns (content-addressed, cross-turn) |
+| 2   | **CCR**           | Archives large blocks behind retrieve markers, fetched on demand    |
+| 3   | **RTK**           | Smart tool-result filtering, dedup & truncation (command-aware)     |
+| 4   | **Headroom**      | Lossless tabular compaction of homogeneous JSON arrays (~30%+)      |
+| 5   | **Caveman**       | Rule-based prose compression (~65–75% on output)                    |
+| 6   | **LLMLingua-2**   | ML semantic pruning via MobileBERT ONNX — code-safe, async          |
+| 7   | **Lite**          | Whitespace + image-URL trimming (latency-light baseline)            |
+| 8   | **Aggressive**    | Summarization + progressive aging of old turns                      |
+| 9   | **Ultra**         | Heuristic token pruning with an optional small-model (SLM) tier     |
 
 Code blocks, URLs and structured data are **always preserved** byte-perfect. **One-click presets** combine the engines:
 
@@ -751,7 +752,7 @@ Compression: aggressive (~50%) → double your free quota · Cost: $0/mo
 **Will I be charged by OmniRoute?** No — it's free, open-source software on your machine. You only pay paid providers directly. OmniRoute has no billing system.
 **Are FREE providers really unlimited?** Yes — Kiro, Qoder, Pollinations, LongCat, Cloudflare. No catch.
 **Will compression hurt quality?** No — it only compresses the **input**; code, URLs, JSON are always protected.
-**Does it work where AI is blocked?** Yes — 3-level proxy + 1proxy marketplace reach all 226 providers.
+**Does it work where AI is blocked?** Yes — 3-level proxy + 1proxy marketplace reach all 227 providers.
 
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