OmniRoute

What it is

OmniRoute is a free, MIT-licensed AI gateway that sits in front of your coding agents. It pools 357 LLM providers (90+ with free tiers, ~1.5B free tokens/month) behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot and others can route through it.

Why people use it

• Auto-fallback: if one provider is down or rate-limited, it retries the next.
• Token compression (RTK + Caveman stacked): claims 15–95% savings (~89% avg).
• 19 routing strategies — cost, latency, quality, or round-robin.
• $0 to start and self-hostable — no vendor lock-in to one lab.

Watch-outs

• Young project (v3.8.x), fast-moving — pin a version before relying on it.
• "90+ free tiers" depends on you holding the accounts; it routes, it doesn't mint keys.
• Compression can trade a little quality for tokens — benchmark on your workload.