magpie vs OmniRoute
Pick any model for any coding agent from one menu-bar app: a local gateway translating OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, with subscription sign-ins and quota failover across accounts. — 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 route coding CLIs through one local endpoint with quota-aware fallback; omniroute aggregates hundreds of providers and compresses tokens, magpie focuses on switching each agent's model in place.
| magpie | OmniRoute | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 8.6k | 74k |
| Forks | 565 | 11k |
| Language | Go | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last activity | yesterday | 3 days ago |
| Topics | gateway, coding | gateway, coding |
| Curated connections | 4 | 8 |
magpie — the curator's take
Worth it the moment you run more than one agent, provider or account — Claude Code on Kimi, Codex on DeepSeek, failover when a plan runs dry, 50+ agents configured in place. Not needed for one agent on its vendor's own plan (the README says so itself). It reads your agents' stored sign-ins by default; turn account discovery off if that's a policy problem.
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.