# 🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway OmniRoute — Never stop coding. Every AI tool → 341 providers — 90+ free — through one endpoint. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot & Antigravity into FREE Claude / GPT / Gemini with auto-fallback. RTK + Caveman stacked compression saves 15–95% tokens (~89% avg) — never hit limits. 341 AI providers · 90+ free tiers · ~1.51B free tokens/mo · 19 routing strategies · $0 to start.

OmniRoute — Never stop coding. Every AI tool → 341 providers — 90+ free — through one endpoint. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot & Antigravity into FREE Claude / GPT / Gemini with auto-fallback. RTK + Caveman stacked compression saves 15–95% tokens (~89% avg) — never hit limits. 341 AI providers · 90+ free tiers · ~1.51B free tokens/mo · 19 routing strategies · $0 to start.

## 💰 ~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 aggregates the **documented** free tiers of **42 provider pools / 495 models** into one honest number and shows it live 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](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.}

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## 📈 The Gateway Keeps Growing

| | v3.8.49 | **v3.8.50** | `v3.8.51+` | | ------------------------- | :-----: | :---------: | :---------: | | 🌐 Providers | 290 | **341** | more queued | | 🧠 Documented models | 1185 | **1202** | — | | 🖼️ Modality Bridge | — | 🆕 vision | video | | 📡 Radar free catalog | — | 🆕 opt-in | — | | ⚖️ Quota-aware scheduling | — | — | 🔭 next | | 📊 Quota telemetry | — | — | 🔭 next | **→ [Roadmap](ROADMAP.md) — riding the rail to `v3.9.0 LTS`**

## 🧩 Available [![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/omniroute?color=cb3837&logo=npm)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/omniroute) ![NPM Monthly](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/omniroute?label=npm/month&color=cb3837&logo=npm) [![Docker Hub](https://img.shields.io/docker/v/diegosouzapw/omniroute?label=Docker%20Hub&logo=docker&color=2496ED)](https://hub.docker.com/r/diegosouzapw/omniroute) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg?style=flat-square)](LICENSE) ![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/diegosouzapw/omniroute?label=docker%20pulls&logo=docker&color=2496ED) ![Electron Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/diegosouzapw/omniroute/total?style=flat&label=electron%20downloads&logo=electron&color=47848F)

🚀 Start	🚀 Quick Start	📦 Install	🆓 Zero-config
💡 Learn	💥 The Promise	🤔 Why OmniRoute	🏆 What Sets Apart
⚙️ Features	🎯 Combos	🌐 Providers	🔌 CLI & MCP
	🗜️ Compression	🖥️ Where It Runs	🔒 Private
👀 See it	🎬 In Action	✨ What's New	🤖 Compatible CLIs
💚 Support	💚 Support / Donate	💬 Community	💖 Sponsors
📦 Project	🛠️ Tech Stack	📖 Docs	👥 Contributors

🌐 In 43 languages

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

```bash # 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/`](examples/quickstart/)}

# 💥 The Promise

# 🤔 Why OmniRoute?

OmniRoute request flow: your IDE or CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline…) calls one local endpoint (http://localhost:20128/v1); the OmniRoute Smart Router (RTK + Caveman compression, 19 routing strategies, circuit breakers, TLS stealth, MCP, A2A, guardrails) auto-falls back across 4 provider tiers — Tier 1 Subscription (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot), quota out? Tier 2 API Key (DeepSeek, Groq, xAI), budget hit? Tier 3 Cheap (GLM $0.5, MiniMax $0.2), budget hit? Tier 4 Free (Kiro, Qoder, Pollinations) — always on.

## 🤝 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: [diegosouza.pw@outlook.com](mailto:diegosouza.pw@outlook.com)

Kimi
_{Moonshot AI} Thanks to Kimi (Moonshot AI), our founding Open Source Friend, for backing this project! Kimi is the AI lab behind the open-weight K2 and K3 model families — Kimi K3 delivers a 1M-token context window, native vision and frontier-level coding at a fraction of closed-model prices, and works out of the box with Claude Code, Codex and every coding tool OmniRoute serves.

What Kimi's support powers: Kimi's API credits power OmniRoute's AI-validated release pipeline — the merge validation powered by Kimi K3 stage that reviews every pull request before it ships — plus day-to-day feature development. First-class Kimi support ships on both rails: the direct Kimi API (kimi-k3) and the Kimi Code coding plan (OAuth and API key). OmniRoute is also the first Brazilian open-source project in Kimi's support program. Get a Kimi API key with 15% extra credits →

Cheaper Inference
_{cheaperinference.com} Thanks to Cheaper Inference, an OmniRoute Open Source Friend, for backing this project! Cheaper Inference is a cost-ranked gateway that resells 42 frontier models — Claude, GPT-5.x, Gemini, Kimi K3, GLM, DeepSeek, Grok and MiniMax — behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, routing each request to the cheapest eligible provider without ever charging above the model maker's list price.

First-class support in OmniRoute: Chat Completions, the native /v1/responses endpoint, vision, tool calling and 3 image models (grok-imagine, nano-banana-pro, nano-banana-2, reachable as cheaperinference/<model>). Get an API key →

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

_{🎟️ Affiliates Promo — free signup coupons from providers we don't sponsor (click to expand)}

_{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.}

_AgentRouter
_{agentrouter.org} _{AgentRouter — affiliate signup · $100 free credits on signup (free server, expect higher latency — best for testing, not production). First-class support in OmniRoute since v3.8.50: Chat Completions, the Anthropic-compatible wire format and the OpenAI-compatible path. Available models include claude-opus-4-8, claude-opus-5, gpt-5.6-sol and more. Grab your $100 →}

_{⚠️ Affiliate link — OmniRoute has no sponsorship or partnership with this provider.}

_{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

All 19 combo routing strategies animated — one tile per strategy: priority, fill-first, weighted, round-robin, p2c, least-used, random, strict-random, cost-optimized, headroom, reset-window, reset-aware, context-relay, context-optimized, cache-optimized, lkgp, auto, fusion, pipeline. See the table above for what each one does.

> 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` No combo to create. Set your model to `auto` (or a variant) and OmniRoute builds a virtual combo from your connected providers, scored live:

Model ID	What it optimizes for
`auto`	🎯 Balanced default (LKGP — sticks to your last good provider)
`auto/coding`	🧑‍💻 Quality-first weights for code generation
`auto/fast`	⚡ Lowest latency first
`auto/cheap`	💰 Cheapest per token first
`auto/offline`	🔋 Most quota / rate-limit headroom first
`auto/smart`	🔭 Quality-first + 10% exploration to discover better models

## ### 🔀 Or build your own — 19 routing strategies All **19** strategies — mix & match per combo step:

#	Strategy	What it does
1	`priority`	First-target ordered list — drain each before the next 🥇
2	`fill-first`	Fill each target's quota fully before moving on
3	`weighted`	Weighted random by per-target weight
4	`round-robin`	Cycle through targets in order
5	`p2c`	Power-of-two-choices random load balancing
6	`least-used`	Pick the target with the lowest current load
7	`random`	Uniform random pick (deduplicated)
8	`strict-random`	Random without de-duplicating repeats 🎲
9	`cost-optimized`	Minimize $ per request from live catalog pricing 💸
10	`headroom`	Pick the target with the most remaining quota
11	`reset-window`	Prefer the target whose quota window resets soonest
12	`reset-aware`	Rank by quota reset time — short windows first 📊
13	`context-relay`	Hand off context across targets for long conversations 🧠
14	`context-optimized`	Pick the best fit for the current context size
15	`cache-optimized`	Pin each reusable prompt prefix to the same account — maximize prompt-cache hits 🎯
16	`lkgp`	Last-Known-Good Path — sticky to the last successful target
17	`auto`	14-factor live scoring across every connection 🤖
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 🔗

_{The Auto-Combo engine scores every candidate on **14 factors** (health, quota, cost, latency, success rate, freshness…) — see [`docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md`](docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md).} ## ### 🧱 Resilience is built in (3 independent layers)

OmniRoute resilience — 3 independent self-healing layers, the right layer for the right failure. Layer 1 provider circuit breaker (whole provider): trips only on 408/5xx, thresholds OAuth 10× / API-key 15× / local 2×, resets 60s/30s/15s into a HALF-OPEN probe, lazy recovery; while OPEN the combo reroutes to the next provider. Layer 2 connection cooldown (one key/account): base 5s OAuth / 3s API-key, exponential ×2 backoff with anti-thundering-herd guard, 429 honors Retry-After, success clears all error state; one cooling key is skipped while sibling keys keep serving. Layer 3 model lockout (one model): per-model 429, local 404 or mode denials lock just that model — never the whole connection. Terminal states (banned, expired, credits exhausted) are for the operator, not cooldowns.

_{📖 [Auto-Combo Engine](docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md) · [Resilience Guide](docs/architecture/RESILIENCE_GUIDE.md)}

## 🏆 What Sets OmniRoute Apart

_{📊 Full methodology & per-feature detail vs 9router, OpenRouter, CLIProxyAPI & LiteLLM → [`docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md`](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.

⭐ Star the repo	Free — genuinely helps visibility	Star OmniRoute
🐙 GitHub Sponsors	One-off or monthly · zero platform fee	github.com/sponsors/diegosouzapw
☕ Ko-fi	Quick one-off tip, no signup for the donor	ko-fi.com/diegosouzapw
🧋 Buy Me a Coffee	Small, informal gesture	buymeacoffee.com/diegosouzapw
🖐 Liberapay	Recurring · non-profit · open source	liberapay.com/diegosouzapw
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₮ USDT	Tron (TRC20)	`TKAF41JpuQrHbKTnsQa9svJE2T192Hvsc2`
$ USDC	Solana	`2emNNZzVVWQc3FQ2wk9M6qXUQmW8AKdjjL174fXR28Tu`

_{⚠️ 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](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/discussions).

Developer notes: The project may generate a local .env file during npm install/postinstall for developer convenience. This file is intentionally ignored via .gitignore (see .gitignore) and must never be committed — if accidentally committed, rotate any exposed secrets and remove the file from history. See docs/DEVELOPER-ENVIRONMENT.md for guidance on managing local environment files and secrets.

## 📡 OmniRoute Radar The main free-tier headline remains **~1.53B tokens/month** from the documented, pool-deduplicated catalog above. Temporary provider signup credits can separately lift the first month to **~2.15B**. 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](https://radar.omniroute.online/planos)**.

## ✨ What's New

> Recent highlights from **v3.8.20 → v3.8.50**. Full history in [`CHANGELOG.md`](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](docs/frameworks/A2A-SERVER.md) - **🛂 Adaptive admission & overload protection** — heavyweight chat requests queue instead of 503ing, with atomic RPM rolling leases per connection. → [Resilience Guide](docs/architecture/RESILIENCE_GUIDE.md) - **🗂️ Canonical `/v1/models` ordering** — one contiguous provider-grouped block per provider (combos pinned first), stable across every catalog source. → [API Reference](docs/reference/API_REFERENCE.md) - **🗜️ Compression hardening** — default-on inflation guard, Caveman packs for DE / FR / JA + Chinese (wényán), RTK filters for Gradle & .NET. → [Compression](docs/compression/COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md) - **💸 Honest flat-rate cost** — subscription / coding-plan providers read **$0** in cost analytics; budget, quota & routing keep estimating. → [API Reference](docs/reference/API_REFERENCE.md) - **⚖️ Quota-Share routing** — split a shared account's quota fairly across pooled keys, work-conserving so idle slices are lent out. → [Resilience Guide](docs/architecture/RESILIENCE_GUIDE.md) - **🤖 One-command CLI/agent setup** — `setup-*` configures 12+ coding tools; `omniroute launch` / `launch-codex` are zero-config. → [CLI Integrations](docs/guides/CLI-INTEGRATIONS.md) - **🛰️ Remote mode** — drive a remote OmniRoute with scoped tokens (`connect` / `contexts` / `tokens`) + an `antigravity` OAuth helper for VPS installs. → [Remote Mode](docs/guides/REMOTE-MODE.md) - **🧭 Smarter auto-routing** — `auto/:` combos, **Fusion** (model panel + judge), task-aware routing, per-request model / mode / USD-budget overrides. → [Auto-Combo](docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md) - **🗜️ Pluggable compression** — 12 composable engines + Compression Studios: LLMLingua-2, two-tier Ultra, omniglyph, per-step fidelity gate, GCF v3.2, drag-reorder editor. → [Compression](docs/compression/COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md) - **🕵️ Transparent MITM decrypt (TPROXY)** — capture CLIs that ignore proxy env vars, with a per-SNI CA + trust-store installer. → [MITM/TPROXY](docs/security/MITM-TPROXY-DECRYPT.md) - **💸 Cost telemetry everywhere** — `X-OmniRoute-*` cost/usage headers on every endpoint, cache-HIT savings header, per-key USD spend quotas. → [API Reference](docs/reference/API_REFERENCE.md) - **🧠 Memory you control** — off by default, opt-in int8 vector quantization + typed decay, per-request `x-omniroute-no-memory`. → [Memory](docs/frameworks/MEMORY.md) - **🛡️ 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](docs/security/GUARDRAILS.md) - **🖼️ New endpoints** — `/v1/ocr` (Mistral OCR) and `/v1/audio/translations` (Whisper-style) round out the media surface. → [API Reference](docs/reference/API_REFERENCE.md) - **🎨 Image / video / audio generation** — one API for media: xAI Grok Imagine & Novita AI video, ComfyUI, Freepik, Adobe Firefly, Microsoft Designer, Google Imagen, Segmind, EdgeTTS. → [API Reference](docs/reference/API_REFERENCE.md) - **🌍 Deployment & ops** — reverse-proxy `basePath`, browser-language auto-detect, per-key device tracking, root-less MITM trust, zh-TW localization. → [Environment](docs/reference/ENVIRONMENT.md) - **🤝 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 **341-provider catalog**. → [Providers](docs/reference/PROVIDER_REFERENCE.md) - **📡 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](docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md) - **⚡ Local performance & infra** — one-click local Redis, Cloudflare Workers / Deno Deploy relay deployers, Bifrost & Mux as supervised embedded services. → [Embedded Services](docs/frameworks/EMBEDDED-SERVICES.md)

## 🤖 Compatible CLIs & Coding Agents > One config — `http://localhost:20128/v1` — and **every** AI IDE or CLI runs on free & low-cost models.

_{Claude Code}	_{Codex CLI}	_Cline	_{Kilo Code}	_{Zoo Code}	_Continue
_Aider	_ForgeCode	_jcode	_{DeepSeek TUI}	_CodeWhale	_OpenCode
_{Factory Droid}	_{Copilot CLI}	_{Cursor CLI}	_Smelt	_Pi	_{Grok Build}
_{Hermes Agent}	_OpenClaw	_Goose	_{Open Interpreter}	_{Warp AI}	_{Agent Deck}

＋ also works with · Kiro · Command Code · Antigravity · Windsurf · AMP · any OpenAI-compatible tool

_{📖 Per-tool setup for all 34 tools (26 CLI Code's + 8 CLI Agents) → [`docs/reference/CLI-TOOLS.md`](docs/reference/CLI-TOOLS.md) · 🧩 OpenCode plugin → [`@omniroute/opencode-provider`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@omniroute/opencode-provider)}

## 🌐 341 AI Providers — 90+ Free

> The most complete catalog of any open-source router: **341 providers**, **90+ with a free tier**, **56 free forever**.

### 🏢 Every major lab — through one endpoint

_OpenAI	_Anthropic	_Gemini	_{xAI Grok}	_DeepSeek	_Mistral
_Qwen	_{Meta Llama}	_Groq	_NVIDIA	_MiniMax	_Cohere
_Perplexity	_HuggingFace	_Together	_Fireworks	_Cloudflare	_Baidu

_{…and 220+ more — every icon resolves live from the dashboard's provider catalog. 📖 [Provider Reference](docs/reference/PROVIDER_REFERENCE.md)}
### 🆓 Free Forever — $0, no card

OpenCode Zen _{DeepSeek V4, Nemotron 3 No token cap}	Kilo Code _{Auto-router, Tencent Hy3 Free forever}	Requesty _{GPT-OSS 120B, Nemotron Free forever}	SiliconFlow _{DeepSeek V3.2 / R1 Free tier}	Z.AI GLM _{GLM-4.7 / 4.5-Flash Free forever}	Baidu ERNIE _{ERNIE 4.0 Free forever}
Qoder AI _{Qwen3-Max, Kimi-K2 Unlimited FREE}	Pollinations _{GPT, Llama, Claude No key needed}	Cloudflare AI _{50+ models 10K neurons/day}	NVIDIA NIM _{GLM, MiniMax ~40 RPM free}	Cerebras _{GLM 4.7, GPT-OSS 1M tokens/day}	OpenRouter _{:free models +$10 → higher RPM}

📖 Full machine-readable catalog → [`docs/reference/PROVIDER_REFERENCE.md`](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.

Platform	Install	Highlights
📦 npm (global)	`npm install -g omniroute`	One command, any OS
🐳 Docker	`docker run … diegosouzapw/omniroute`	Multi-arch AMD64 + ARM64
🖥️ Desktop (Electron)	`npm run electron:build`	Native window + system tray — Windows / macOS / Linux
💪 ARM	native `arm64`	Raspberry Pi, ARM servers, Apple Silicon
📱 Android (Termux)	`pkg install nodejs && npx -y omniroute`	Runs on your phone, 24/7, no root
📲 PWA	"Add to Home Screen"	Fullscreen, offline, installable from browser
🧩 OpenCode plugin	`@omniroute/opencode-provider`	Native OpenCode integration
🤖 VS Code Copilot Chat	install OmniCopilot extension	Every OmniRoute model in the native Copilot Chat picker — stable & Insiders
🛠️ From source	`npm install && npm run dev`	Hack on it, contribute

_{📖 [Docker Guide](docs/guides/DOCKER_GUIDE.md) · [Desktop](electron/README.md) · [Termux](docs/guides/TERMUX_GUIDE.md) · [PWA](docs/guides/PWA_GUIDE.md) · [OpenCode](docs/frameworks/OPENCODE.md)}

### 🧩 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](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniCopilot)** extension, point it at your OmniRoute server (defaults to `localhost:20128`), then open Copilot Chat → model picker → **Manage Models…** → **OmniRoute**.

Store	Link	Works with
🧩 VS Code Marketplace	Install →	VS Code — stable & Insiders
🔓 Open VSX Registry	Install →	Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Theia, code-server, Gitpod, Antigravity, Kiro…

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](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniCopilot).

## 🔒 Private & Local-First

_{📖 [Authorization](docs/architecture/AUTHZ_GUIDE.md) · [Guardrails](docs/security/GUARDRAILS.md) · [Compliance](docs/security/COMPLIANCE.md)}

## 🔌 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`) ```bash 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. ```bash 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](docs/guides/REMOTE-MODE.md)}

Animated terminal demoing the OmniRoute CLI — omniroute providers list, omniroute combo list, omniroute health — cycling over the 80+ command surface: providers · oauth · keys · combo · nodes · models · cache · compression · cost · usage · quota · health · resilience · telemetry · logs · audit · mcp · a2a · cloud · memory · skills · eval · tunnel · backup · sync · webhooks · policy · pricing · translator · simulate …

### 🤝 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`.

Interface	Endpoint / command	Use it for
🧰 MCP (stdio)	`omniroute --mcp`	Plug into Claude Desktop, Cursor, any MCP client
🌊 MCP (HTTP)	`/api/mcp/stream`	Remote MCP — 109 tools, 33 scopes, full audit trail
📡 MCP (SSE)	`/api/mcp/sse`	Streaming MCP transport
🤝 A2A	`/.well-known/agent.json`	Agent-to-agent, JSON-RPC 2.0 + SSE, 6 skills
🌐 REST API	`/v1/*`	OpenAI-compatible — chat, embeddings, images, audio, OCR
🔔 Webhooks	`/api/webhooks`	Push events (usage, quota, errors, routing) to your URL
🛰️ Remote CLI	`omniroute connect`	Drive a remote instance with scoped access tokens

```bash # 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](docs/frameworks/MCP-SERVER.md) · [A2A Server](docs/frameworks/A2A-SERVER.md) · [Agent Protocols](docs/frameworks/AGENT_PROTOCOLS_GUIDE.md)}

## 🗜️ Save 15–95% Tokens — Automatically

### 📖 How it works — pipeline, architecture & savings math OmniRoute compression pipeline: a client request of 10,000 tokens passes through 12 stacked engines — Session-Dedup, CCR, Lite, RTK, Responses Tool Output, Headroom, Relevance, Caveman, Aggressive, LLMLingua-2, Ultra, OmniGlyph — and reaches the provider at about 1,080 tokens, up to 95% saved. Code, URLs and JSON are always preserved byte-perfect.

OmniRoute compression pipeline: a client request of 10,000 tokens passes through 12 stacked engines — Session-Dedup, CCR, Lite, RTK, Responses Tool Output, Headroom, Relevance, Caveman, Aggressive, LLMLingua-2, Ultra, OmniGlyph — and reaches the provider at about 1,080 tokens, up to 95% saved. Code, URLs and JSON are always preserved byte-perfect.

Default stacked combo runs `RTK → Caveman`. When both act on the same tool/context payload, savings compound: ```txt 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](https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk), [Caveman](https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman) (⭐ 90K+), [LLMLingua-2](https://github.com/microsoft/LLMLingua), and [Troglodita](https://github.com/leninejunior/troglodita) (PT-BR). ### 🧱 The 12-engine stack 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	Lite	Whitespace + image-URL trimming (latency-light baseline)
4	RTK	Smart tool-result filtering, dedup & truncation (command-aware)
5	Responses Tool Output	Lossless-first JSON + bounded diagnostic compression for shell/patch/search/build outputs (Responses API)
6	Headroom	Lossless tabular compaction of JSON arrays (~30%) via a vendored GCF codec
7	Relevance	Extractive sentence scoring against the last user query
8	Caveman	Rule-based prose compression (~65–75% on output)
9	Aggressive	Summarization + progressive aging of old turns
10	LLMLingua-2	ML semantic pruning via MobileBERT ONNX — code-safe, async
11	Ultra	Heuristic token pruning with an optional small-model (SLM) tier
12	OmniGlyph	Experimental context-as-image encoding routed to Claude Fable 5 (most aggressive; opt-in)

Code blocks, URLs and structured data are **always preserved** byte-perfect. **One-click presets** combine the engines:

Mode	Savings	Best for
🪶 Lite	~15%	Always-on safe default
🪨 Standard (Caveman)	~30%	Daily coding
⚡ Aggressive	~50%	Long tool-heavy sessions
🔥 Ultra	~75%	Maximum savings
🧰 RTK	60–90%	Shell/test/build/git output
🔗 Stacked (RTK → Caveman)	78–95%	Mixed prompts + tool logs

**Real example — Standard mode:** > **Before (69 tokens):** _"The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. When you pass an inline object as a prop, React's shallow comparison sees it as a different object every time, which triggers a re-render. I would recommend using useMemo to memoize the object."_ > > **After (19 tokens):** _"New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo."_ > > **Same answer. 72% fewer tokens. Zero accuracy loss.** ✅ **PT-BR example — [Troglodita](https://github.com/leninejunior/troglodita) mode:** > **Antes (42 tokens):** _"O problema é que o componente está re-renderizando porque uma nova referência de objeto está sendo criada em cada ciclo de renderização. Eu recomendaria usar useMemo."_ > > **Depois (12 tokens):** _"Re-render: ref nova cada ciclo (objeto inline recriado). Usar `useMemo`."_ > > **Mesma resposta. ~70% menos tokens. Precisão técnica intacta.** ✅
### 🎚️ Beyond the engines — output styles, the adaptive dial & per-request control The 12 engines above shrink what goes **in**. Three more layers shape **how**, **when**, and what comes **out**: - **🪄 Output Styles** _(output-axis steering)_ — inject deterministic, cache-safe response-shaping instructions; combinable, each at `lite` / `full` / `ultra` intensity. Adding a style is a one-line registry entry: - **Terse prose** — drop filler / articles / hedging; keep technical substance exact. - **Less code** — "lazy senior dev" YAGNI: smallest working change, no unrequested scaffolding. - **Terse CJK (文言)** — classical-Chinese ultra-terse style (locale-gated to `zh`). - **🎯 Adaptive context-budget** _(the dial)_ — instead of one on/off token threshold, escalate the cheapest, most-lossless engines only as far as needed to **fit the model's context window**. Policy: `reserve-output` (default, model-aware) · `percentage` · `absolute`. Mode: `floor` (guarantee fit) · `replace-autotrigger` (your explicit choice wins) · `off` (legacy threshold). - **🎛️ Where compression is decided** _(precedence, high → low)_ — per-request `x-omniroute-compression` header › routing-combo override › active named profile › adaptive / auto-trigger › panel default › off. The applied plan echoes back in the `X-OmniRoute-Compression: ; source=` response header. Auto-trigger by token threshold, flip on the adaptive dial, pin a named profile, set a one-off per request, or assign a pipeline per routing combo — whichever fits the workload. An opt-in offline **eval harness** (`npm run eval:compression`) scores fidelity vs. savings on a pinned corpus before you promote a change. 📖 [`COMPRESSION_GUIDE.md`](docs/compression/COMPRESSION_GUIDE.md) · [`RTK_COMPRESSION.md`](docs/compression/RTK_COMPRESSION.md) · [`COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md`](docs/compression/COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md)

# ⚡ Quick Start

**1) Install & run** ```bash npm install -g omniroute omniroute ``` > 💡 See `npm warn ERESOLVE` or peer-dep warnings? [They're harmless](docs/guides/TROUBLESHOOTING.md#npm-install-warnings-eresolve--peer--deprecated). Dashboard at `http://localhost:20128` · API at `http://localhost:20128/v1`. **2) Connect a FREE provider (no signup)** Dashboard → **Providers** → connect **Kiro AI** (free Claude, ~50 credits/month per account) or **OpenCode Free** (no auth) → done. **3) Point your coding tool** ```txt Base URL: http://localhost:20128/v1 API Key: [copy from Dashboard → Endpoints] Model: auto (zero-config smart routing — or any provider/model) ``` **4) Verify it's working** ```bash curl http://localhost:20128/v1/models -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" ``` You should see your connected models listed. 🎉 That's it — start coding, and OmniRoute auto-routes & falls back for you. If your client cannot send custom headers, OmniRoute also exposes tokenized compatibility aliases: ```txt OpenAI catalog: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/ OpenAI models: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/models OpenAI chat: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/chat/completions OpenAI responses: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/responses Ollama chat: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/api/chat Ollama tags: http://localhost:20128/vscode/YOUR_KEY/api/tags ``` Use these only for clients that cannot attach `Authorization: Bearer ...`. Header auth remains the preferred mode.
## 📦 More install methods — Docker, source, pnpm, Arch **🐳 Docker** ```bash docker run -d --name omniroute --restart unless-stopped --stop-timeout 40 \ -p 127.0.0.1:20128:20128 -v omniroute-data:/app/data diegosouzapw/omniroute:latest ``` > **Pre-release Docker channel:** `diegosouzapw/omniroute:next` and > `diegosouzapw/omniroute:next-web` follow the current default `release/v*` > branch. These mutable tags are intended only for testing unreleased fixes and > are **not supported for production**. See > [Docker Release Channels](docs/guides/DOCKER_GUIDE.md#release-channels). **🛠️ From source** ```bash cp .env.example .env && npm install PORT=20128 npm run dev ``` **📦 pnpm** ```bash pnpm add -g omniroute@latest --allow-build=better-sqlite3 --allow-build=@swc/core && omniroute ``` **🐧 Arch Linux (AUR)** ```bash yay -S omniroute-bin && systemctl --user enable --now omniroute.service ``` **🔧 Nix (Flake)** ```bash # Using Nix flakes nix develop npm run dev # Or using devbox devbox run npm run dev ``` 📖 [Docker Guide](docs/guides/DOCKER_GUIDE.md) — Compose profiles, Caddy HTTPS, Cloudflare tunnels. **🦭 Podman** ```bash # 1. Prepare the bind-mounted data directory mkdir -p data # 2. Linux + local rootless Podman only (never a remote Podman Machine client): podman unshare chown 1000:1000 ./data # 3. Set the runtime hint, build the local Compose image, and start echo "CONTAINER_HOST=podman" >> .env podman compose --profile base up -d --build ``` On macOS or Windows, Podman uses a remote Podman Machine: skip `podman unshare` and follow the [topology-specific data directory guidance](contrib/podman/README.md#data-directory-permissions-by-topology). 📖 [Podman Guide](contrib/podman/README.md) — Compose builds, Podman Machine, and Linux/systemd Quadlet setup. **⚡ Faster / leaner install (skip the native build)** The native SQLite engine (`better-sqlite3`) is an **optional** dependency, so a global install never blocks on compiling from source: it uses a prebuilt binary when one matches your platform/Node, and otherwise falls back transparently to a pure-JS engine (`node:sqlite` on Node 22+, else the bundled `sql.js` WASM) — no build tools required. To skip the post-install native warm-up entirely (CI, headless, or slow machines): ```bash OMNIROUTE_SKIP_POSTINSTALL=1 npm install -g omniroute # CI=1 also skips it ``` For the fastest installs prefer **pnpm** (content-addressed store + hard links — see above). For a dashboard-free, headless runtime use the Docker `base` profile (above) or the [Termux guide](docs/guides/TERMUX_GUIDE.md). The CLI and the web dashboard are served by the same process on one port, so there is no separate CLI-only package today.

# 🎬 OmniRoute in Action

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🇺🇸 English
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🇷🇺 Русский
_{Полное руководство}

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# 📧 Community & Help > Everything in one place — follow the maintainer, chat with the community, or open an issue. | Channel | Where / how | | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 💼 **LinkedIn** — follow the maintainer | [linkedin.com/in/diegosouzapw](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegosouzapw/) | | 🐙 **GitHub** — follow for releases & tips | [@diegosouzapw](https://github.com/diegosouzapw) | | 💬 **Discord** | [discord.gg/U47eFqAXCn](https://discord.gg/U47eFqAXCn) | | ✈️ **Telegram** | [t.me/omnirouteOficial](https://t.me/omnirouteOficial) | | 🟢 **WhatsApp — 🌍 Global** | [join the group](https://chat.whatsapp.com/JI7cDQ1GyaiDHhVBpLxf8b?mode=gi_t) | | 🟢 **WhatsApp — 🇧🇷 Brasil** | [entrar no grupo](https://chat.whatsapp.com/LTSpdFhXTxjH4R6CCNiKWz) | | 🌍 **Website** | [omniroute.online](https://omniroute.online) | | 📦 **Source code** | [github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute) | | 🐛 **Report a bug** | [open an issue](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues) — attach `npm run system-info` output | | 🤝 **Contribute** | [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) · [Branching & Release Model](docs/ops/BRANCHING_MODEL.md) · pick a `good first issue` | | 💚 **Support the project** | [Ways to support ↑](#-support-omniroute) · [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/diegosouzapw) |

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## 🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Runtime	Node.js 22.x / 24.x LTS — `>=22.22.2 <23 \|\| >=24.0.0 <27`
Language	TypeScript 6.0 — 100% TypeScript across `src/` and `open-sse/` (zero `any` in core since v2.0)
Framework	Next.js 16 + React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4
Database	better-sqlite3 (SQLite, WAL journaling) + LowDB (JSON legacy) — 117 domain modules, 149 migrations
Memory	SQLite FTS5 full-text + int8-quantized vector embeddings, typed decay
Schemas	Zod 4 — MCP tool I/O validation + API contracts
Protocols	MCP (stdio / HTTP / SSE) + A2A v0.3 (JSON-RPC 2.0 + SSE)
Streaming	Server-Sent Events (SSE) + WebSocket bridge (`/v1/ws`)
Compression	12-engine pipeline — RTK, Caveman, LLMLingua-2 (MobileBERT ONNX), GCF, OmniGlyph
Auth & security	OAuth 2.0 (PKCE) + JWT + API Keys + MCP scoped auth · AES-256-GCM at rest · DOMPurify
Stealth	wreq-js — JA3 / JA4 TLS fingerprint impersonation, 3-level proxy
Resilience	Circuit breaker, exponential backoff, anti-thundering-herd, auto-combo self-healing
Logging	pino — structured JSON logs with request context
Testing	Node.js test runner + Vitest — 25,000+ test cases across 3,300+ files (unit, integration, E2E, security, ecosystem)
Platforms	Desktop (Electron) · Android (Termux) · PWA (any browser)
CI/CD	GitHub Actions — auto npm publish + Docker Hub on release
Links	Website · npm · Docker Hub

## 📖 Documentation

### 📘 Getting Started

Document	Description
User Guide	Providers, combos, CLI integration, deployment
Setup Guide	Full install methods, CLI tool configs, protocol setup, timeout tuning
CLI Tools Guide	Per-tool setup for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, OpenClaw, Kilo, Copilot
Remote Mode	Drive a remote OmniRoute (VPS) from your laptop CLI via scoped access tokens
Claude Code Config	Point Claude Code at OmniRoute (local/remote) with `launch` + per-model profiles
Quick Start	3-step install → connect → configure

### 🔧 Operations & Deployment

Document	Description
Docker Guide	Docker run, Compose profiles, Caddy HTTPS, tunnels, image tags
Podman Guide	Quadlet systemd integration, podman-compose, SELinux
VM Deployment	Complete guide: VM + nginx + Cloudflare setup
Fly.io Deployment	Deploy to Fly.io with persistent storage
Termux Guide	Run OmniRoute on Android via Termux
PWA Guide	Progressive Web App install, caching, architecture
Uninstall Guide	Clean removal for all install methods
Environment Config	Complete `.env` variables and references

### 🧠 Features & Architecture

Document	Description
Architecture	System architecture, data flow, and internals
Compression Guide	7-option pipeline: off / lite / standard / aggressive / ultra / RTK / stacked
RTK Compression	Command-output compression, filters, trust, verify, raw-output recovery
Compression Engines	Caveman, RTK, stacked pipelines, dashboard/API/MCP surfaces
Compression Rules Format	JSON rule-pack schemas for Caveman and RTK filters
Compression Language Packs	Language detection and Caveman rule-pack authoring
Resilience Guide	Circuit breakers, cooldowns, queue, anti-thundering herd, TLS spoofing
Auto-Combo Engine	14-factor scoring, mode packs, self-healing
Proxy Guide	3-level proxy system, 1proxy marketplace, registry CRUD
Free Tiers	90+ free providers consolidated directory (42 documented token pools / 495 models)
Features Gallery	Visual dashboard tour with screenshots
Codebase Documentation	Beginner-friendly codebase walkthrough

### 🤖 Protocols & APIs

Document	Description
API Reference	All endpoints with examples
OpenAPI Spec	OpenAPI 3.0 specification
MCP Server	109 MCP tools, IDE configs, Python/TS/Go clients
MCP Server Guide	MCP installation, transports, and tool reference
A2A Server	JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol, skills, streaming, task mgmt
A2A Server Guide	A2A agent card, tasks, skills, and streaming

### 📋 Project & Quality

Document	Description
Contributing	Development setup and guidelines
Branching & Release Model	Where PRs target (`release/*`), what `main` and tags mean
Changelog	Full per-version release history
Security Policy	Vulnerability reporting and security practices
i18n Guide	43-language support, translation workflow, RTL
Release Checklist	Pre-release validation steps
Coverage Plan	Test coverage strategy and 25,000+ test suite

# ⭐ Top Contributors > OmniRoute is shaped by a passionate open-source community. These individuals have made exceptional contributions that directly impact the quality, stability, and reach of the project. **Thank you.**

oyi77 _{🥇 213 commits • +114K lines} _{Analytics engine, SQL aggregations, proxy marketplace, test coverage}	R.D. & Randi _{🥈 108 commits • +38K lines} _{Endpoints page, tunnel integrations, Docker workflows, A2A status, compression UI}	Chris Staley _{🥉 70 commits • +1.8K lines} _{SSE stream hardening, Responses API, Gemini pagination, test regression fixes}	zenobit _{🏅 62 commits • +22K lines} _{CI/CD pipeline, i18n for 33 languages, Void Linux package, platform fixes}	Jan Leon _{🏅 58 commits • +22K lines} _{Reasoning-effort routing, proxy controls, quota visibility, Live Zone compression}
backryun _{🏅 53 commits • +70K lines} _{Provider catalog curation — Perplexity, Kimi, Cerebras, Copilot, LMArena refreshes}	Chirag Singhal _{🏅 46 commits • +4.8K lines} _{Error sanitization, MITM prefill fix, fusion judge, breaker/429 correctness}	kfiramar _{🏅 38 commits • +1.7K lines} _{Codex websocket + passthrough, auth/onboarding, Electron hardening, DB migrations}	Benson K B _{🏅 28 commits • +9.2K lines} _{Electron desktop app, auto-updater, release build workflows, cross-platform CI}	Hernan J. Ardila _{🏅 25 commits • +174K lines} _{Zero-latency combos, vision-bridge auto-routing, catalog context-length, resilience 429 hints}

> 🙏 These contributors' features, bug fixes, and infrastructure improvements are a **core part** of what makes OmniRoute reliable and feature-rich. Every pull request, every test case, and every i18n translation file matters. Open source is built by people like them.

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## 💖 Sponsors

A heartfelt thank-you to the people who fund OmniRoute out of their own pocket — every contribution keeps the project free, independent and moving.

Prof. Igor Morais
_{💛 Sponsor}

longtao
_{💛 Sponsor}

_{… and others who prefer to stay private 💛} 💖 Become a sponsor → — every dollar keeps OmniRoute free and independent.

## 👥 320+ Contributors

[![Contributors](https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=diegosouzapw/OmniRoute&max=400&columns=20&anon=1)](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/graphs/contributors) ### How to Contribute 1. Fork the repository 2. Branch from the **active** `release/vX.Y.Z` tip (not `main`) — see [Branching & Release Model](docs/ops/BRANCHING_MODEL.md) 3. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b feat/amazing-feature`) 4. Commit your changes (`git commit -m 'feat: add amazing feature'`) 5. Push to the branch (`git push origin feat/amazing-feature`) 6. Open a Pull Request with **base = that `release/vX.Y.Z` branch** See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for detailed guidelines. ### Releasing a New Version ```bash # Create a release — npm publish happens automatically gh release create v3.8.2 --title "v3.8.2" --generate-notes ```

## 📊 Stars

## 🌍 StarMapper

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

OmniRoute stands on the shoulders of giants. It started as a fork of **[9router](https://github.com/decolua/9router)** and a TypeScript port of the Go project **[CLIProxyAPI](https://github.com/router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI)** — and from there, every subsystem below was inspired by an open-source project that got there first. Each one shaped a concrete piece of OmniRoute. This is our thank-you to all of them. 🙏 > ⭐ star counts as of July 2026 — go give these projects a star. ### 🧬 Lineage & gateway

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
9router	22.7k	The original project this fork is built on — extended here with multi-modal APIs and a full TypeScript rewrite.
CLIProxyAPI	43.6k	The Go implementation that inspired this JavaScript / TypeScript port.
LiteLLM	54.0k	The AI gateway whose public pricing dataset feeds our cost-tracking sync and whose provider-normalization model informed our routing.

### 🗜️ Context & token compression — engines

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
Caveman	90.8k	The viral "why use many token when few token do trick" project — its caveman-speak philosophy powers our standard compression mode and 30+ filler/condensation rules.
RTK – Rust Token Killer	71.8k	High-performance command-output compression — inspired our RTK engine, JSON filter DSL, raw-output recovery and the stacked RTK → Caveman pipeline.
headroom	60.1k	Reversible context-compression (SmartCrusher) — inspired our `headroom` engine and the `ccr` retrieve-marker pattern.
LLMLingua	6.5k	Prompt-compression research (LLMLingua / LLMLingua-2) — inspired our async, code-safe, fail-open `llmlingua` engine.
llmlingua-2-js	30	The JS/ONNX port (MobileBERT / XLM-RoBERTa) used as the worker-thread backend for our LLMLingua engine.
Troglodita	26	PT-BR token compression — powers our pt-BR language pack: pleonasm reduction and filler removal tuned for Brazilian-Portuguese grammar.
ponytail	86.0k	The viral "lazy senior dev" YAGNI-coder skill — inspired our less-code Output Style: smallest-working-change steering that cuts _generated_ code (the output-axis sibling to Caveman's terse prose).

### 🧩 Compact formats, token research & code-aware tooling

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
TOON	24.9k	Token-Oriented Object Notation — its columnar, header-plus-rows model shaped our tabular compaction stage.
GCF – Graph Compact Format	22	First inspired our tabular compaction stage; now its zero-dependency, lossless generic-profile encoder is vendored directly as the Headroom codec (MIT, SPDX-marked), current with GCF spec v3.2.
token-optimizer-mcp	444	Brotli/SQLite cache + per-session context-delta — inspired our `session-dedup` engine.
token-savior	1.1k	Bash-output compaction + MCP profiles — inspired our compression bail-out discipline and MCP tool-manifest reduction.
token-saver	117	Content-aware, per-file-type output compression with failure-aware bail-out — validated our per-type dispatch and minimum-gain skip.
token-optimizer	1.7k	"Find the ghost tokens" — its offload + recoverable-handle pattern informed our CCR offload thinking.
TokenMizer	16	A session-graph + cross-turn line-dedup blueprint that informed our session-dedup design.
OmniCompress	3	Rust columnar-JSON + content-addressed retrieve + cross-message dedup — validated our `headroom`/`ccr`/`session-dedup` engine design and the cache-stable "compressed form is position-independent" invariant.
mcp-compressor	98	MCP tool-schema/description compression — informed our MCP tool-manifest cardinality reduction.
RepoMapper	187	Aider-style repo-map ranking — informed our repo-map / retrieval-ranking exploration.
quiet-shell-mcp	4	Declarative shell-output reduction over MCP — validated our declarative bash-output compaction.
ts-morph	6.1k	TypeScript Compiler API toolkit — inspired our parser-based comment removal that preserves string, template and regex literals.

### 🧠 Memory & RAG

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
Mem0	61.2k	Universal memory layer — its proxy-as-write/read-boundary model shaped our memory architecture.
Letta (MemGPT)	23.9k	Stateful agents with tiered memory — inspired our Context Control & Recovery (CCR) tiered model.
WFGY	1.8k	The ProblemMap taxonomy of 16 recurring RAG/LLM failure modes — the shared vocabulary in our troubleshooting guide.

### 🛰️ Traffic inspection, MITM & transparent proxy

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
llm-interceptor	49	MITM interception/analysis of coding-assistant ↔ LLM traffic — our Traffic Inspector ports its SSE merge, conversation normalization, host passthrough and secret masking (MIT).
ProxyBridge	5.5k	Transparent per-process proxy routing — inspired our crash-safe MITM teardown, socket idle-timeouts, `/proc` process attribution and TPROXY capture.

### 📚 Model data, observability & UI

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
models.dev	6.0k	Open database of AI model specs, pricing and capabilities — synced natively into our model catalog.
React Flow / xyflow	37.7k	The node-based graph library powering our real-time Compression Studio and Combo/Routing Studio.
LangGraph	37.6k	LangGraph Studio's live workflow-graph visualization inspired our Studios' real-time cascade view.
Langfuse	31.4k	Its trace → span → generation observability model shaped our Compression Studio waterfall.
Kiali	3.6k	Istio service-mesh observability — inspired our circuit-breaker badges and error-edge visuals in the Routing/Combo Studio.
lobe-icons	2.2k	AI/LLM brand logos that render the provider icons across our dashboard.

### 🛡️ Security

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
awesome-secure-defaults	710	A curated list of secure-by-default libraries that guides our security choices (Helmet.js, DOMPurify, ssrf-req-filter, safe-regex, Google Tink).

### 🧭 Complementary tools

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute

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