9router Wraps 40 AI Coding Subscriptions Behind One Proxy
9router hit GitHub Trending hard on May 9 — 1,028 stars/day, 5,500 total. JavaScript, MIT-ish, latest release v0.4.20 on May 7. What it does: wraps 40+ AI coding subscriptions and free providers behind one local proxy so your editor talks to one endpoint while it routes to whatever's cheapest or available.
The features that explain the velocity: an "RTK Token Saver" that compresses tool outputs (git diffs, grep results) to cut token consumption 20-40%; a smart fallback tier that goes subscriptions → cheap providers → free services to keep work flowing through rate limits; and format translation between OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini schemas so the same client works everywhere.
The pain it addresses is concrete. Developers are buying multiple AI coding subscriptions (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex) and burning through quotas at different rates. Free tiers expire mid-task. Tool outputs from git/grep/find blow up token windows. 9router is the consumer-side router that treats those subscriptions as fungible compute.
The structural read: 2026 is when AI coding compute starts getting traded as a commodity from the user side, not the vendor side. OpenRouter handled this for chat. 9router does it for coding. The wedge that sticks isn't the routing — it's the token compression of tool outputs, because tool-output tokens are 60-80% of agentic coding bills and nobody else is squeezing them at the proxy layer. Source: https://github.com/decolua/9router
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The features that explain the velocity: an "RTK Token Saver" that compresses tool outputs (git diffs, grep results) to cut token consumption 20-40%; a smart fallback tier that goes subscriptions → cheap providers → free services to keep work flowing through rate limits; and format translation between OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini schemas so the same client works everywhere.
The pain it addresses is concrete. Developers are buying multiple AI coding subscriptions (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex) and burning through quotas at different rates. Free tiers expire mid-task. Tool outputs from git/grep/find blow up token windows. 9router is the consumer-side router that treats those subscriptions as fungible compute.
The structural read: 2026 is when AI coding compute starts getting traded as a commodity from the user side, not the vendor side. OpenRouter handled this for chat. 9router does it for coding. The wedge that sticks isn't the routing — it's the token compression of tool outputs, because tool-output tokens are 60-80% of agentic coding bills and nobody else is squeezing them at the proxy layer. Source: https://github.com/decolua/9router
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