OmniRoute Treats 231 LLM Providers as One Socket
OmniRoute is an open-source local AI gateway that points your tools at a single endpoint and then quietly routes every request across 231-plus providers, more than 50 of them with free tiers. When a quota dies it falls back automatically through a four-tier ladder of subscription, then API, then cheap, then free. It carries 17 routing strategies and an auto-combo engine that scores providers on nine factors like health, quota, cost, latency and success rate. Model arbitrage, packaged.
The part that separates it from a plain proxy is token compression. It stacks nine composable engines with names like RTK, Caveman, Headroom and LLMLingua-2, claiming 15 to 95 percent token savings by filtering command output and condensing prose, while keeping code blocks, URLs and structured data lossless. For agent workloads that drown in tool output and repeated context, that is the bill cut that actually moves. It also aggregates roughly 1.6 billion free tokens a month across 40-plus pools, with deduplicated counting so the number is not the usual inflated marketing.
It speaks to 16-plus AI IDEs including Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Cline and OpenCode, translates between OpenAI, Claude and Gemini APIs so tools stay portable, and ships an MCP server with 87 tools plus A2A for agent-to-agent autonomy. This lands squarely in the routing-layer-is-the-product thread we have watched build with Workweave Router and the vLLM Micro-Agent. The argument is the same and getting louder: the model is a commodity, and whoever owns the gateway that picks and compresses and fails over captures the value.
MIT licensed, TypeScript, fresh v3.8.42 on June 30, runs on npm, Docker, Electron, Android via Termux or as a PWA. It is at https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
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The part that separates it from a plain proxy is token compression. It stacks nine composable engines with names like RTK, Caveman, Headroom and LLMLingua-2, claiming 15 to 95 percent token savings by filtering command output and condensing prose, while keeping code blocks, URLs and structured data lossless. For agent workloads that drown in tool output and repeated context, that is the bill cut that actually moves. It also aggregates roughly 1.6 billion free tokens a month across 40-plus pools, with deduplicated counting so the number is not the usual inflated marketing.
It speaks to 16-plus AI IDEs including Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Cline and OpenCode, translates between OpenAI, Claude and Gemini APIs so tools stay portable, and ships an MCP server with 87 tools plus A2A for agent-to-agent autonomy. This lands squarely in the routing-layer-is-the-product thread we have watched build with Workweave Router and the vLLM Micro-Agent. The argument is the same and getting louder: the model is a commodity, and whoever owns the gateway that picks and compresses and fails over captures the value.
MIT licensed, TypeScript, fresh v3.8.42 on June 30, runs on npm, Docker, Electron, Android via Termux or as a PWA. It is at https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
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