OmniRoute Open-Source Gateway Routes 250+ AI APIs Through a Single Endpoint

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OmniRoute is an open-source, MIT-licensed AI gateway written in TypeScript that consolidates over 250 AI provider APIs into a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint at localhost. Developers managing multiple providers such as OpenAI, DeepSeek, and xAI typically face fragmented authentication, rate limits, and quota failures that disrupt workflows. The gateway offers 18 routing strategies, including a dynamic scoring system that evaluates each provider across 12 live factors — such as cost, latency, health, and success rate — before selecting the best option per request. A four-tier auto-fallback mechanism silently shifts traffic from subscription tiers to API keys to cheap or free providers when limits are hit, avoiding pipeline interruptions. The project has attracted over 23,000 GitHub stars and contributions from more than 500 developers since its release.

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