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Praveen K Palaniswamy 65e81158ab fix(ollama): route models by advertised capability (#11088)
Landed with the design call resolved per the owner's pick — **option 1**: the synced store is now endpoint-agnostic (persistDiscoveredModels and managedModelImport no longer drop non-chat models at write time), and chat selectability moved to read time (auto-pool expansion in autoStrategy applies filterChatSelectableModels; the models-route projection already had its chatOnly filter). Your discovery test now passes end-to-end (3/3): /api/show capabilities persist per connection and image/embedding requests route through the advertising host.

Reconciliation notes: conflicted areas merged onto the current tip (adobe discovery import, requestedModel preflight signature, resolvedProvider fast-path coexists with the synced-route override — explicit resolution wins); carried base-red drains (#10055 memoization, #11071 test variants) dropped as already-landed; the managed-model-import exclusion test was propagated to the new contract (image/video models persist; the read filter still hides them from chat pickers — pinned by a new assertion). Full battery: 205/206 focused (the one red is a confirmed periodic-timer timing flake on the loaded devbox — 20/20 isolated), autoCombo vitest 30/30, combo suites 46/46, gates + typecheck clean.

Thank you @yourspraveen — the capability probe + routing design was right; it just needed the store contract opened up. Fixes #11087.
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OmniRoute vs Alternatives 3.8.50 2026-08-02

OmniRoute vs Alternatives

Objective feature comparison vs popular open-source AI routers.

Methodology: Public repos audited 2026-Q2. Versions as listed. Submit corrections via PR — we want this to be accurate.

Feature OmniRoute 3.8 LiteLLM 1.x OpenRouter (SaaS) Portkey
Providers 329 ~100 ~50 ~30
Free/no-auth catalog entries 155 n/a passthrough n/a
Self-hostable ⚠ paid
OAuth catalog entries 23 partial
Auto-fallback combos 19 strategies priority-based tier-based weighted
Fusion (parallel panel + judge synthesis)
Tier 1/2/3 fallback (subscription→cheap→free) + UI manual n/a manual
Token compression 12-engine stack (RTK + Caveman + LLMLingua) none none none
Multimodal generation (speech/music/video) passthrough
Built-in MCP server 107 tools, 32 scopes
A2A protocol 6 skills
Memory (FTS5 + vector)
Guardrails (PII, injection, vision) partial paid
Cloud agent integrations Codex, Cursor, Devin, Jules
Circuit breaker per provider 3-state, lazy recovery basic
TLS fingerprint stealth (JA3/JA4) wreq-js
Eval framework built-in ⚠ paid
MITM proxy (intercepts Cursor/Antigravity) cross-platform
CLI with system tray (no Electron) n/a n/a
CLI machine-ID auto-auth n/a n/a
Dashboard Next.js 16 basic proprietary proprietary
i18n 43 locales
Public agent skills (SKILL.md) 45
Tunnel support (Cloudflared, Tailscale, Ngrok) n/a n/a
License MIT MIT proprietary proprietary

When to choose OmniRoute

  • You self-host and want maximum provider coverage (329 providers, 155 free/no-auth catalog entries)
  • You need a built-in MCP server (LLM tools, memory, skills exposed as tools)
  • You need A2A protocol for agent-to-agent workflows
  • You want fingerprint stealth (JA3/JA4) to avoid detection by upstream CAPTCHAs
  • You need enterprise features (guardrails, evals, audit trail) without a SaaS bill

When to choose LiteLLM

  • You're Python-first and need tight integration with litellm.completion()
  • You need mature production deployment recipes (k8s, Helm charts)
  • Your team already runs Python microservices

When to choose OpenRouter (SaaS)

  • You don't want to self-host
  • You're fine paying per-token at SaaS markup
  • You need a single payment method across all providers

When to choose Portkey

  • You need a commercial SLA with uptime guarantees
  • You prefer a managed dashboard without ops overhead
  • You need enterprise compliance features out of the box

Last updated: 2026-08-02. Submit corrections via PR to keep this table accurate.