9router vs quotio
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 — Native macOS menu-bar front-end for CLIProxyAPI: pool your Claude, Codex, Qwen and Copilot accounts behind one local proxy with live quota bars, auto-failover and one-click CLI wiring.
Both point any coding CLI at pooled backends with subscription-first fallback. 9router is cross-platform, reaches 40+ API providers and compresses tool_result payloads; the Quotio stack only fronts subscriptions you already own, but tracks their remaining quota natively and shows it in the menu bar.
| 9router | quotio | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26k | 4.7k |
| Forks | 4.7k | 309 |
| Language | JavaScript | Swift |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last activity | 10 days ago | yesterday |
| Topics | gateway, coding | gateway, coding |
| Curated connections | 9 | 4 |
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.
quotio — the curator's take
This is the macOS GUI that CLIProxyAPI never had. Quotio installs and supervises the proxy, adds accounts by OAuth or API key across Claude, Codex, Qwen, Vertex AI, iFlow, Antigravity, Kiro and Copilot, rotates between them round-robin or fill-first when one cools down, and rewrites the configs of Claude Code, Codex CLI, Amp, OpenCode and Droid to point at localhost. The menu-bar quota bars are the real product — you see the limit coming before it stops you mid-task, and standalone quota mode works without running the proxy at all. NOT for Linux or headless servers: it needs macOS 14+, and Cursor and Trae are quota-monitored only, never proxied through it.