9router vs OmniRoute
Self-hosted gateway pointing any AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline) at 40+ providers, with subscription→cheap→free auto-fallback and tool_result compression for 20-40% token savings. — versus — Free MIT AI gateway for coding CLIs: one endpoint over 352 providers (150+ free tiers) and 1,200+ models with quota-aware auto-fallback, RTK+Caveman token compression, MCP/A2A and a desktop app.
Both point any AI coding CLI at many providers with automatic fallback and compress tool results on the way through. 9router is the compact self-hosted version (40+ providers, subscription→cheap→free); OmniRoute is the encyclopaedic one.
| 9router | OmniRoute | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 27k | 62k |
| Forks | 4.9k | 8.6k |
| Language | JavaScript | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last activity | 2 days ago | today |
| Topics | gateway, coding | gateway, coding |
| Curated connections | 10 | 6 |
9router — the curator's take
The 'never hit a rate limit again' gateway: run it on localhost, point Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Cline / Copilot at its OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and it round-robins your accounts and cascades Subscription → cheap ($0.2-0.6/1M) → free (Kiro, OpenCode) providers so a job never dies mid-flight, while RTK compresses tool_result payloads (git diff, grep, ls) to shave 20-40% of tokens. Best when you juggle several provider subscriptions/keys and keep exhausting quota. NOT for you if you want one stable premium model (free-tier fallbacks vary in quality/availability), if routing traffic through third-party free providers raises data-privacy concerns, or if you want savings from smarter code retrieval rather than payload compression. Overlaps heavily with lynkr — pick 9router for free/multi-account fallback breadth, lynkr for tool-stripping, semantic caching and local-model routing.
OmniRoute — the curator's take
The maximalist gateway for people who refuse to pay per token: it catalogues 444 free-tier entries, computes an honest monthly budget (~1.47B tokens, re-audited fortnightly, regional-ID quotas shown separately), and schedules Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Cline or Copilot traffic across them with quota-aware fallback so a limit never stops you. 61k stars and 550 contributors are real. NOT for a production application: 352 providers means 352 terms of service and 352 latency profiles, and the value is breadth, not guarantees. For a small, predictable stack use a purpose-built gateway; use OmniRoute to keep coding when your subscription runs dry.