cheaper-inference / OmniRoute

# 🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway
## 💰 ~1.62B Tokens / Month Across Third-Party Free Tiers
> **Bring your own provider accounts.** This is an estimated aggregate across separately eligible third-party free tiers, not a token grant from OmniRoute. Sign up, obtain credentials where required, and connect the providers you can use; each provider controls its limits, availability, and terms.
>
> Stacking free tiers by hand is painful — dozens of SDKs, dozens of rate limits, and no idea how much you actually have. OmniRoute catalogs **467 free-tier entries across 34 recurring pool keys** and computes the token headline from the **17 pools with a published positive monthly budget plus five per-model Groq caps**, deduplicated by shared pool. Quotas that only open after a regional identity check (today: ModelScope) are shown apart, +~6M behind regional identity verification, and never summed into the headline. The result stays visible on the dashboard (`/dashboard/free-tiers`).
> Animated summary of the live `/dashboard/free-tiers` page. Full methodology (pool dedupe, credit tiers, provider terms): **docs/reference/FREE_TIERS.md**.
>
> These figures are re-audited every two weeks against the live catalog and **move both ways** — a provider ends a free tier and the number drops; a new one lands and it climbs. We publish what the catalog actually computes, never a rounded-up best case. 
⭐ Star the repo if OMNIROUTE helped you save money and make your work easier.
### 💬 Join the community
**👋 Follow the maintainer — get new providers, releases & tips first:**
**Questions, provider tips, roadmap & support → Discord · Telegram · WhatsApp 🌍 Global / 🇧🇷 Brasil / Portal**
## 📈 The Gateway Keeps Growing
| | v3.8.50 | **v3.8.51** | `v3.8.53+` |
| ------------------------- | :-----------------------: | :---------: | :-------------------: |
| 🌐 Providers | 352 | **358** | 375 |
| 🧠 Unique chat model IDs | 1320 | **1374** | 1475 |
| 🖼️ Modality Bridge | 🆕 vision + audio + video | ✓ | ✓ |
| 📡 Radar free catalog | 🆕 opt-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| ⚖️ Quota-aware scheduling | 🆕 Quota-Share | ✓ | ✓ |
| 📊 Quota telemetry | 🆕 live | ✓ | ✓ |
| 🧰 Headless mode | — | — | 🆕 `serve --headless` |
| 🛤️ LTS rail infra | — | — | 🆕 release channels |
| 🔎 Model discovery API | — | — | 🆕 `/v1/models/query` |
**→ Roadmap — riding the rail to `v3.9.0 LTS`**
## 🧩 Available
 🚀 Start 
 🚀 Quick Start 
 📦 Install 
 🆓 Connect a provider 
 💡 Learn 
 💥 The Promise 
 🤔 Why OmniRoute 
 🏆 What Sets Apart 
 ⚙️ Features 
 🎯 Combos 
 🌐 Providers 
 🔌 CLI & MCP 
 🗜️ Compression 
 🖥️ Where It Runs 
 🔒 Private 
 👀 See it 
 🎬 In Action 
 ✨ What's New 
 🤖 Compatible CLIs 
 💚 Support 
 💚 Support / Donate 
 💬 Community 
 💖 Sponsors 
 📦 Project 
 🛠️ Tech Stack 
 📖 Docs 
 👥 Contributors 
 🌐 In 67 languages 
## 🆓 Install, connect a provider, then route through one endpoint
 [code] 
 `auto` needs an eligible route. A fresh installation can have no eligible keyless targets, and a keyless provider may reject third-party clien