OmniRoute/README.md

🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway

Never stop coding. Connect every AI tool to 231 providers — 50+ free — through one endpoint.

Plug Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot & Antigravity into FREE Claude / GPT / Gemini. Auto-fallback.

RTK + Caveman compression saves 15–95% tokens. Never hit limits.

~1.6B documented free tokens/month — up to ~2.1B in your first month with signup credits — aggregated across the free tiers, plus a long tail of permanently-free, no-cap providers, and the compression above stretches every one further. (how we count →)

💬 Join the community

Questions, provider tips, roadmap & support → Discord · Telegram · WhatsApp 🌍 Global / 🇧🇷 Brasil

🚀 Quick Start • 🎯 Combos • 🌐 Providers • 🔌 CLI & MCP • 🗜️ Compression • 🌍 Website

💥 The Promise • 🤔 Why • 🏆 What Sets Apart • 🤖 Compatible CLIs • 🖥️ Where It Runs • 🔒 Private • 🎬 In Action • 📚 Explore More • 📧 Support

🌐 Available in 40+ languages

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💰 ~1.6B 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 40+ provider pools / 500+ models into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard (/dashboard/free-tiers).

• ~1.6B 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.

Preview mockup — a real screenshot lands once the /dashboard/free-tiers page is validated. Full methodology (pool dedupe, credit tiers, provider terms): docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md.

💥 The Promise

One endpoint. 231 providers. Never stop building — and let OmniRoute pick the cheapest one that works.

🚫 Never hit limits Auto-fallback across 231 providers in milliseconds. Quota out? Next provider takes over — zero downtime.	💸 Save up to 95% tokens RTK + Caveman stacked compression cuts 15–95% of eligible tokens (~89% avg on tool-heavy sessions).	🆓 $0 to start 50+ providers with a free tier, 11 free forever (Kiro, Qoder, Pollinations, LongCat…). No card needed.
🔌 Every tool works 16+ coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot, Antigravity — through one config.	🧩 One endpoint OpenAI ↔ Claude ↔ Gemini ↔ Responses API translation. Point any tool at /v1 and it just works.	🛡️ Production-grade Circuit breakers, TLS stealth, MCP (87 tools), A2A, memory, guardrails, evals. 14,965 tests.

🤔 Why OmniRoute?

Stop juggling 10 dashboards, dead API keys, and surprise bills.

❌ The daily pain	✅ How OmniRoute fixes it
📉 Subscription quota expires unused every month	Maximize subscriptions — track quota, use every token before reset
🛑 Rate limits stop you mid-coding	4-tier auto-fallback — Subscription → API → Cheap → Free, in milliseconds
🔥 Tool outputs (git diff, grep, logs) burn tokens	RTK + Caveman compression — save 15–95% eligible tokens per request
💸 Expensive APIs ($20–50/mo per provider)	Cost-optimized routing — auto-route to the cheapest viable model
🧰 Each AI tool wants its own setup	One endpoint, every tool, one dashboard
🌍 AI blocked in your country	3-level proxy + TLS fingerprint stealth — use AI from anywhere

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│        Your IDE / CLI  (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline…)       │
└─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                          │ http://localhost:20128/v1
                          ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  OmniRoute — Smart Router                  │
│  RTK + Caveman compression · 15 routing strategies         │
│  Circuit breakers · TLS stealth · MCP · A2A · Guardrails   │
└─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
        ┌─────────────┬────┴────────┬─────────────┐
        ▼ Tier 1      ▼ Tier 2      ▼ Tier 3       ▼ Tier 4
   SUBSCRIPTION     API KEY        CHEAP          FREE
   Claude Code,     DeepSeek,      GLM $0.5,      Kiro, Qoder,
   Codex, Copilot   Groq, xAI      MiniMax $0.2   Pollinations
   quota out? ───▶  budget hit? ─▶ budget hit? ─▶ always on

🎯 Combos — The Flagship

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 — 15 routing strategies

Goal	Strategy / combo
🥇 Drain my subscription before paying	priority / fill-first
⚖️ Spread load across accounts	round-robin · weighted · p2c · least-used
💸 Always cheapest viable model	cost-optimized · auto/cheap
🧠 Hand off long context between models	context-relay · context-optimized
🎲 Randomized / privacy routing	random · strict-random
🤖 Just make it smart	auto (9-factor scoring) · lkgp · reset-aware

_{The Auto-Combo engine scores every candidate on 9 factors (health, quota, cost, latency, success rate, freshness…) — see docs/routing/AUTO-COMBO.md.}

🧱 Resilience is built in (3 independent layers)

Layer	Scope	What it does
🔌 Circuit breaker	whole provider	Stops hammering a provider that's failing upstream; auto-probes to recover
💤 Connection cooldown	one account / key	Skips a rate-limited key while other keys keep serving
🎯 Model lockout	provider + model	Quarantines just one quota-limited model, not the whole connection

Combo: "always-on"                         Strategy: priority
  1. cc/claude-opus-4-7   ← subscription (use it fully)
  2. cx/gpt-5.5           ← second subscription
  3. glm/glm-5.1          ← cheap backup ($0.5/1M)
  4. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5 ← FREE, unlimited (never fails)
Result: 4 layers of fallback = zero downtime

_{📖 Auto-Combo Engine · Resilience Guide}

🏆 What Sets OmniRoute Apart

Feature	OmniRoute	Other routers
🌐 Providers	231	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%
🧰 Built-in MCP server	87 tools, 3 transports, 30 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, Devin, Jules	None
🥷 TLS fingerprint stealth	JA3/JA4 via wreq-js	None
🖥️ Multi-platform	Web · Desktop · Termux · PWA	Web only
🌍 i18n	42 locales	0–4

_{📊 Detailed comparison vs LiteLLM, OpenRouter & Portkey → docs/comparison/OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md}

✨ What's New

Recent highlights from v3.8.20 → v3.8.36. Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

• ⚖️ Quota-Share routing — a dedicated combo strategy that spreads load across accounts by available quota: Deficit-Round-Robin scheduling, per-connection max_concurrent with cooldown-wait queueing, multi-window usage buckets (5h / 7d / per-model), per-(key,model) caps, session stickiness for prompt-cache integrity, and proactive saturation from upstream token-usage headers. → Resilience Guide
• 🤖 One-command CLI/agent setup — a dedicated setup-* command configures each coding tool to route through OmniRoute (Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Continue, Cursor, Roo Code, Kilo Code, Crush, Goose, Qwen Code, Aider, OpenCode, Gemini CLI); omniroute launch / omniroute launch-codex are zero-config launchers. → CLI Integrations
• 🛰️ Remote mode — drive a remote OmniRoute from any machine with scoped access tokens (omniroute connect / omniroute contexts / omniroute tokens). → Remote Mode
• 🧭 Smarter auto-routing — OpenRouter-style auto/<category>:<tier> combos (e.g. auto/coding:fast, auto/reasoning:pro), a Fusion strategy (16th — fan out to a panel of models in parallel, then synthesize via a judge), task-aware routing (best-fit connection per task type), per-request X-Route-Model override, live Arena-ELO + models.dev model intelligence, per-step account allowlists, provider-wildcard combo steps, nested combo-ref execution, sticky weighted selection, and web_search-aware routing. → Auto-Combo
• 🗜️ Pluggable compression — an async pipeline of 9 composable engines with Compression Studios, an LLMLingua-2 ONNX engine and a heuristic/SLM two-tier Ultra, RTK, delegated Anthropic Context Editing, Output Styles (output-axis steering: terse-prose / less-code / terse-CJK), an adaptive context-budget dial (escalate only as far as needed to fit the context window), per-request x-omniroute-compression control, an opt-in offline eval harness, and a unified panel with named profiles + an active-profile selector. → Compression
• 🕵️ Transparent MITM decrypt (TPROXY) — capture & translate traffic from CLIs that ignore proxy env vars, with a per-SNI certificate authority and a trust-store installer. → MITM/TPROXY
• 💸 Cost telemetry everywhere — X-OmniRoute-* cost/usage headers on every endpoint (including media), a non-token cost engine, a cache-HIT X-OmniRoute-Cost-Saved header, and per-key USD spend quotas. → API Reference
• 🧠 Memory you control — opt-in int8 vector quantization (Qdrant + sqlite-vec), memory off by default, and a per-request x-omniroute-no-memory header. → Memory
• 🛡️ Security — a prompt-injection guard across every LLM route (backed by a red-team suite), plus a free DuckDuckGo last-resort web search. → Guardrails
• 🤝 More providers & agents — Cursor Cloud Agent (a 4th cloud agent), CodeBuddy CN (copilot.tencent.com), a Google Flow video-generation provider, a refreshed 231-provider catalog (OrcaRouter, Wafer AI, OpenAdapter, dit.ai, TokenRouter, …), Vertex AI media generation (speech / transcription / music / video), and one-click account import from CLIProxyAPI (~/.cli-proxy-api/). → Providers
• ⚡ Local performance & infra — a one-click local Redis launcher (omniroute redis up, plus a dashboard Redis panel), one-click Cloudflare Workers and Deno Deploy relay deployers wired into the proxy pool, and an optional Bifrost Go sidecar that offloads the hottest relay path (BIFROST_BASE_URL, with automatic fallback to the TypeScript path on timeout). → Environment

🤖 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	Gemini CLI	Cursor	Copilot	Continue
OpenCode	Kilo Code	Droid	OpenClaw	Kiro	Command

＋ also works with · Cline · Antigravity · Windsurf · AMP · Hermes · Qwen CLI · Roo · Continue · any OpenAI-compatible tool

_{📖 Per-tool setup for all 16+ tools → docs/reference/CLI-TOOLS.md · 🧩 OpenCode plugin → @omniroute/opencode-provider}

🌐 231 AI Providers — 50+ Free

The most complete catalog of any open-source router: 231 providers, 50+ with a free tier, 11 free forever.

🆓 Free Forever — $0, no card

GPT-5, Claude, Gemini $100 free credits	Kimi-K2, DeepSeek-R1 Unlimited FREE	GPT-5, Claude, Llama 4 No key needed	Flash-Lite 50M tokens/day 🔥
50+ models 10K neurons/day	gemini-3-flash 180K/mo free	129 models ~40 RPM free	Qwen3 235B 1M tokens/day

📖 Full machine-readable catalog → 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-lts && 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
🛠️ From source	npm install && npm run dev	Hack on it, contribute

_{📖 Docker Guide · Desktop · Termux · PWA · OpenCode}

🔒 Private & Local-First

Your keys, your machine, your data. OmniRoute is a local proxy — it never phones home.

• 🏠 Runs 100% on your hardware — npm, Docker, desktop, or your phone. No OmniRoute cloud sits in the request path.
• 🔐 Credentials encrypted at rest — API keys & OAuth tokens sealed with AES-256-GCM.
• 🚫 Zero telemetry by default — your prompts go only to the providers you choose, nowhere else.
• 🛡️ Hardened gateway — API-key scoping, IP filtering, rate limits, prompt-injection guard, loopback-only process routes.
• 📜 MIT licensed & fully open-source — audit every line, self-host forever.

_{📖 Authorization · Guardrails · Compliance}

🔌 Full CLI + A2A & MCP

OmniRoute isn't just a server — it's a full command-line cockpit with 60+ commands, plus open agent protocols so an AI agent can drive OmniRoute by itself.

⌨️ A real CLI (not just start)

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.

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}

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 or A2A and any capable agent gets the keys to the whole gateway — routing, providers, combos, cache, compression, memory — autonomously.

Protocol	Endpoint	Use it for
🧰 MCP (stdio)	omniroute --mcp	Plug into Claude Desktop, Cursor, any MCP client
🌊 MCP (HTTP)	http://localhost:20128/api/mcp/stream	Remote MCP — 87 tools, 30 scopes, full audit trail
📡 MCP (SSE)	http://localhost:20128/api/mcp/sse	Streaming MCP transport
🤝 A2A	http://localhost:20128/.well-known/agent.json	Agent-to-agent, JSON-RPC 2.0 + SSE, 6 skills

# 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 · A2A Server · Agent Protocols}

🗜️ Save 15–95% Tokens — Automatically

Why use many token when few token do trick? Every request passes through OmniRoute's compression pipeline transparently — no client changes. It's now a stack of 9 composable engines that run in order and mix & match per routing combo — building on ideas from RTK, Caveman (⭐ 51K+), LLMLingua-2, and Troglodita (PT-BR).

🧱 The 9-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	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:

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 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. ✅

📖 How it works — pipeline, architecture & savings math

Client (10,000 tok) ──▶ OmniRoute Compression (9 engines) ──▶ Provider (~1,080 tok, up to 95% saved)

Default stacked combo runs RTK → Caveman. When both act on the same tool/context payload, savings compound:

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.

🎚️ Beyond the engines — output styles, the adaptive dial & per-request control

The 9 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: <mode>; source=<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 · RTK_COMPRESSION.md · COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md

⚡ Quick Start

1) Install & run

npm install -g omniroute
omniroute

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

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

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:

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

docker run -d --name omniroute --restart unless-stopped --stop-timeout 40 \
  -p 20128:20128 -v omniroute-data:/app/data diegosouzapw/omniroute:latest

🛠️ From source

cp .env.example .env && npm install
PORT=20128 npm run dev

📦 pnpm

pnpm install -g omniroute && pnpm approve-builds -g && omniroute

🐧 Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S omniroute-bin && systemctl --user enable --now omniroute.service

🔧 Nix (Flake)

# Using Nix flakes
nix develop
npm run dev

# Or using devbox
devbox run npm run dev

📖 Docker Guide — Compose profiles, Caddy HTTPS, Cloudflare tunnels.

🦭 Podman

# 1. Build the image
podman build --target runner-base -t omniroute:base .

# 2. Fix data directory permissions for rootless Podman
mkdir -p data && podman unshare chown 1000:1000 ./data

# 3. Set runtime in .env, then run (see contrib/podman/ for Quadlet)
echo "CONTAINER_HOST=podman" >> .env
podman compose --profile base up -d

📖 Podman Guide — Quadlet setup, podman-compose, Quadlet.

🎬 OmniRoute in Action

🇧🇷 Português Guia completo

🇺🇸 English Complete walkthrough

🇷🇺 Русский Полное руководство

🎬 Made a video about OmniRoute? Open an issue or discussion with the link — we'll feature it here.

📚 Explore More

💰 Pricing at a glance & the $0 Free Stack (11 providers)

Tier	Example	Cost
💳 Subscription	Claude Code Pro / Codex / Copilot	$10–200/mo
🔑 API Key (free tiers)	NVIDIA NIM, Cerebras, Groq	FREE
💰 Cheap	GLM-5 $0.5/1M · MiniMax M2.5 $0.3/1M	pennies
🆓 Free Forever	Kiro, Qoder, Qwen, Pollinations, LongCat	$0

The $0 Free Stack — combine into one unbreakable combo:

Provider	Prefix	Free models	Quota
Kiro	kr/	Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, Opus 4.6	50 credits/mo
Qoder	if/	kimi-k2-thinking, qwen3-coder-plus, deepseek-r1	♾️ Unlimited
Qwen	qw/	qwen3-coder-plus/flash/next	♾️ Unlimited
Pollinations	pol/	GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama 4	No key needed
LongCat	lc/	LongCat-Flash-Lite	50M tokens/day 🔥
Cloudflare AI	cf/	50+ models	10K neurons/day
NVIDIA NIM	nvidia/	129 models	~40 RPM
Cerebras	cerebras/	Qwen3 235B, GPT-OSS 120B	1M tok/day

💡 The dashboard "cost" is a savings tracker, not a bill — OmniRoute never charges you. A "$290 total cost" using free models means $290 saved.

📖 Complete free directory → docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md — 25+ providers, quotas, base URLs.

🎯 Use Cases — ready-made combo playbooks

$0 forever:

1. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5   (Kiro — ~50 credits/mo per acct)
2. if/kimi-k2-thinking    (Qoder — unlimited)
3. pol/gpt-5              (Pollinations — no key)
4. lc/longcat-flash-lite  (50M tok/day backup)
Compression: aggressive (~50%) → double your free quota · Cost: $0/mo

24/7 no interruptions: chain 2 subscriptions → cheap → free for 5 layers of fallback. Blocked region: free providers + global/per-provider proxy → access AI from any country. Max savings: subscription + cheap backup + ultra compression (~75%) → ~$150–300/mo saved for heavy users.

🌍 Bypass geo-blocks — 3-level proxy + stealth

🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇹🇷 In a blocked region? OmniRoute's 3-level proxy (Global / Per-Provider / Per-Connection) proxies API requests, OAuth flows, connection tests, token refresh & model sync.

• Protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, SOCKS5, authenticated proxies
• 🆓 1proxy marketplace — hundreds of free validated proxies, quality scores, auto-rotation
• Anti-detection — TLS fingerprint spoofing (wreq-js), CLI fingerprint matching, proxy IP preservation

📖 docs/ops/PROXY_GUIDE.md

✨ Full feature list — 30+ capabilities (memory, evals, observability)

Routing: 15 strategies · task-aware smart routing · thinking budget controls · wildcard routing · system prompt injection. Compatibility: OpenAI ↔ Claude ↔ Gemini ↔ Responses API · auto OAuth refresh (PKCE, 8 providers) · multi-account round-robin · Batch + Files API · live OpenAPI 3.0. Protocols: MCP (87 tools, 3 transports, 30 scopes) · A2A (JSON-RPC 2.0, SSE, 6 skills) · ACP · cloud agents (Codex, Devin, Jules). Plugins: custom plugin marketplace (system-configured registry URL with SSRF-guarded fetch) · install / enable / disable · Notion + Obsidian knowledge-base integrations (WebDAV file server, vault search, note CRUD). Embedded services: one-click install & lifecycle management of local sidecar services (CLIProxy, NineRouter). Quality & Ops: built-in Evals (golden-set: exact/contains/regex/custom) · guardrails (PII, injection, vision) · health dashboard · p50/p95/p99 telemetry · webhooks · compliance audit. AI Agent Skills: drop-in markdown manifests — point any agent at a skills/*/SKILL.md manifest. 43 skills available.

📖 MCP Server · A2A Server · Resilience Guide · Features Gallery

📖 Setup, env vars & FAQ

Env var	Default	Purpose
PORT	20128	API + dashboard port
REQUIRE_API_KEY	false	Require API key for all requests
DATA_DIR	~/.omniroute	Database & config storage

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? Mostly — Qoder, Pollinations, LongCat, and Cloudflare are free with no per-account credit cap. Kiro is free too but capped at ~50 credits/month per account. Stack multiple free providers in a combo and auto-fallback keeps you serving for $0. 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 231 providers.

📖 User Guide · API Reference · Environment Config

🐛 Troubleshooting

Problem	Quick fix
"Language model did not provide messages"	Provider quota exhausted → use a combo fallback
Rate limiting (429)	Add fallback: cc/claude → glm/glm-4.7 → if/kimi-k2-thinking
OAuth token expired	Auto-refreshed; if stuck, delete + re-auth in Providers
unsupported_country_region_territory	Configure proxy in Settings → Proxy
Docker SQLite locks	Use --stop-timeout 40 for clean WAL checkpoint
Node runtime errors	Use Node >=22.0.0 <23 or >=24.0.0 <27

🐛 Reporting a bug? Run npm run system-info and attach system-info.txt. 📖 docs/guides/TROUBLESHOOTING.md

📸 Dashboard screenshots

Page	Screenshot	Page	Screenshot
Providers		Combos
Analytics		Health
Translator		Settings
CLI Tools		Usage Logs

📧 Support & Community

💬 Chat with the community — Discord, Telegram & WhatsApp (🌍 / 🇧🇷) links are at the top of this README.

• 🌍 Website: omniroute.online
• 🐙 GitHub: github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
• 🐛 Issues: report a bug (attach npm run system-info output)
• 🤝 Contributing: see CONTRIBUTING.md or pick a good first issue

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Runtime: Node.js 22.x or 24.x LTS (24 LTS recommended) — >=22.0.0 <23 || >=24.0.0 <27
• Language: TypeScript 6.0 — 100% TypeScript across src/ and open-sse/ (zero any in core modules since v2.0)
• Framework: Next.js 16 + React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4
• Database: better-sqlite3 (SQLite) + LowDB (JSON legacy) — domain state, proxy logs, MCP audit, routing decisions, memory, skills
• Schemas: Zod (MCP tool I/O validation, API contracts)
• Protocols: MCP (stdio/HTTP) + A2A v0.3 (JSON-RPC 2.0 + SSE)
• Streaming: Server-Sent Events (SSE) + WebSocket bridge (/v1/ws)
• Auth: OAuth 2.0 (PKCE) + JWT + API Keys + MCP Scoped Authorization
• Testing: Node.js test runner + Vitest (14,965 test cases across 517 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)
• Website: omniroute.online
• Package: npmjs.com/package/omniroute
• Docker: hub.docker.com/r/diegosouzapw/omniroute
• Resilience: Circuit breaker, exponential backoff, anti-thundering herd, TLS spoofing, auto-combo self-healing

📖 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	9-factor scoring, mode packs, self-healing
Proxy Guide	3-level proxy system, 1proxy marketplace, registry CRUD
Free Tiers	25+ free API providers consolidated directory
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	87 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
Changelog	Full per-version release history
Security Policy	Vulnerability reporting and security practices
i18n Guide	40+ language support, translation workflow, RTL
Release Checklist	Pre-release validation steps
Coverage Plan	Test coverage strategy and 14,965 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 🥇 190 commits • +72K lines Analytics engine, SQL aggregations, proxy marketplace, test coverage

Chris Staley 🥈 72 commits • +5.7K lines SSE stream hardening, Responses API, Gemini pagination, test regression fixes

zenobit 🥉 62 commits • +24K lines CI/CD pipeline, i18n for 33 languages, Void Linux package, platform fixes

R.D. & Randi 🏅 107 commits • +28K lines Endpoints page, tunnel integrations, Docker workflows, A2A status, compression UI

benzntech 🏅 20 commits • +7.5K lines Electron desktop app, auto-updater, release build workflows, cross-platform CI

🙏 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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👥 Contributors

How to Contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

Releasing a New Version

# 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 and a TypeScript port of the Go project 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 June 2026 — go give these projects a star.

🧬 Lineage & gateway

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
9router · decolua	17.9k	The original project this fork is built on — extended here with multi-modal APIs and a full TypeScript rewrite.
CLIProxyAPI · router-for-me	37.8k	The Go implementation that inspired this JavaScript / TypeScript port.
LiteLLM · BerriAI	50.8k	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 · JuliusBrussee	74.5k	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 · rtk-ai	63.6k	High-performance command-output compression — inspired our RTK engine, JSON filter DSL, raw-output recovery and the stacked RTK → Caveman pipeline.
headroom · chopratejas	33.6k	Reversible context-compression (SmartCrusher) — inspired our headroom engine and the ccr retrieve-marker pattern.
LLMLingua · Microsoft	6.3k	Prompt-compression research (LLMLingua / LLMLingua-2) — inspired our async, code-safe, fail-open llmlingua engine.
llmlingua-2-js · atjsh	27	The JS/ONNX port (MobileBERT / XLM-RoBERTa) used as the worker-thread backend for our LLMLingua engine.
Troglodita · Lenine Júnior	15	PT-BR token compression — powers our pt-BR language pack: pleonasm reduction and filler removal tuned for Brazilian-Portuguese grammar.
ponytail · DietrichGebert	51.4k	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 · toon-format	24.6k	Token-Oriented Object Notation — its columnar, header-plus-rows model shaped our tabular compaction stage.
GCF – Graph Compact Format · Blackwell Systems	11	Schema-aware "JSON for LLMs" notation — co-inspired our lossless homogeneous-array compaction with [N rows] markers.
token-optimizer-mcp · ooples	409	Brotli/SQLite cache + per-session context-delta — inspired our session-dedup engine.
token-savior · Mibayy	993	Bash-output compaction + MCP profiles — inspired our compression bail-out discipline and MCP tool-manifest reduction.
token-saver · ppgranger	103	Content-aware, per-file-type output compression with failure-aware bail-out — validated our per-type dispatch and minimum-gain skip.
token-optimizer · alexgreensh	1.4k	"Find the ghost tokens" — its offload + recoverable-handle pattern informed our CCR offload thinking.
TokenMizer · Shweta-Mishra-ai	1	A session-graph + cross-turn line-dedup blueprint that informed our session-dedup design.
OmniCompress · jessefreitas	2	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 · Atlassian Labs	80	MCP tool-schema/description compression — informed our MCP tool-manifest cardinality reduction.
RepoMapper · pdavis68	182	Aider-style repo-map ranking — informed our repo-map / retrieval-ranking exploration.
quiet-shell-mcp · mrsimpson	4	Declarative shell-output reduction over MCP — validated our declarative bash-output compaction.
ts-morph · David Sherret	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 · mem0ai	58.9k	Universal memory layer — its proxy-as-write/read-boundary model shaped our memory architecture.
Letta (MemGPT) · letta-ai	23.4k	Stateful agents with tiered memory — inspired our Context Control & Recovery (CCR) tiered model.
WFGY · onestardao	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 · chouzz	46	MITM interception/analysis of coding-assistant ↔ LLM traffic — our Traffic Inspector ports its SSE merge, conversation normalization, host passthrough and secret masking (MIT).
ProxyBridge · InterceptSuite	5.1k	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 · SST / OpenCode	5.1k	Open database of AI model specs, pricing and capabilities — synced natively into our model catalog.
React Flow / xyflow · xyflow	37.1k	The node-based graph library powering our real-time Compression Studio and Combo/Routing Studio.
LangGraph · LangChain	35.1k	LangGraph Studio's live workflow-graph visualization inspired our Studios' real-time cascade view.
Langfuse · Langfuse	29.3k	Its trace → span → generation observability model shaped our Compression Studio waterfall.
Kiali · Kiali	3.6k	Istio service-mesh observability — inspired our circuit-breaker badges and error-edge visuals in the Routing/Combo Studio.
lobe-icons · LobeHub	2.1k	AI/LLM brand logos that render the provider icons across our dashboard.

🛡️ Security

Project	⭐	How it inspired OmniRoute
awesome-secure-defaults · tldrsec	708	A curated list of secure-by-default libraries that guides our security choices (Helmet.js, DOMPurify, ssrf-req-filter, safe-regex, Google Tink).

❤️ Support

OmniRoute is free and open source, built and maintained in the open. If it saves you time or money, consider supporting development:

• ⭐ Star the repo — it genuinely helps visibility
• 💖 GitHub Sponsors — fund ongoing maintenance and new providers
• 🐛 Report bugs and share feedback in Discussions

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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