All 18 combo routing strategies, animated. Each tile below animates the path its strategy takes — ● request → ▮ targets, green outline = the pick. The grid is OmniRoute's (MIT); the badges underneath say honestly which flows this gateway runs today. From OmniRoute ↗ · try the live ones on Connections.
What runs here today — no vaporware: live, partial, or roadmap
priority✅ live here
the fallback chain: router-ranked candidates tried in order
auto (12-factor)✅ live here (our flavor)
the router scores fit · cost · speed per task with transparent rationale
cost-optimized✅ live here
model "auto/cheap" — cheapest that clears the quality floor
headroom✅ live here
model "auto/free" — drains the free-tier pool with most remaining allowance first
fill-first◐ effectively
cooldowns drain a model until it 429s, then move on — fill-first by consequence
reset-aware◐ partially
429 cooldowns honor Retry-After — reset-time awareness without the ranking
⚠ A caveat on fusion / panel strategies. Fanning a prompt out to several models and synthesizing the answers buys less diversity than it looks: “Artificial Hivemind” (Jiang et al., arXiv 2510.22954) finds widespread mode collapse on open-ended prompts — both within a model (repetition) and across models (homogeneity) — and that LM judges are poorly calibrated exactly where humans disagree. Route across models for cost, speed and capability with confidence; route for a second opinion on open-ended questions with much less.
Roadmap (OmniRoute-only today): weightedround-robinp2cleast-usedrandomstrict-randomreset-windowcontext-relaycontext-optimizedlkgpfusionpipeline
Feature comparison — OmniRoute's table, plus an honest column for this app
| Feature | OmniRoute | Other routers | LLM Switchboard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌐 Providers | 278 | 20–100 | 3 wired + 25-provider directory |
| 🆓 Free providers | 90+ (40+ free forever) | 1–5 | 3 wired free tiers — see the Free-tier page |
| 🔀 Routing strategies | 18–19 strategies | 1–3 | 4 live + 2 partial (priority · auto · cost · headroom) |
| 🗜️ Token compression | RTK + Caveman stacked (15–95%) | None / 20–40% | None — roadmap |
| 🧰 Built-in MCP server | 104 tools, 3 transports, 31 scopes | Rare | None — the app is the tool |
| 🤝 A2A agent protocol | 6 skills, JSON-RPC 2.0 | None | None |
| 🧠 Memory (FTS5 + vector) | Yes | Rare | None — stateless by design |
| 🛡️ Guardrails (PII, injection) | Yes | Rare | Authlee SSO gate only |
| ☁️ Cloud agents | Codex, Cursor, Devin, Jules | None | n/a — bring your own agent, point it at /v1 |
| 🥷 TLS fingerprint stealth | JA3/JA4 via wreq-js | None | n/a — transparent, nothing to hide |
| 🖥️ Multi-platform | Web · Desktop · Termux · PWA | Web only | Zero-dep Node — self-host anywhere (Railway, laptop, edge box) |
| 🌍 i18n | 43 locales | 0–4 | EN |
The honest read: OmniRoute is a Swiss-army proxy platform; this gateway is the routing core — one endpoint, smart fallback, free-tier headroom — inside a product that also does benchmarks, architectures, RSI and more. Different shapes, shared idea.