gateway vs OmniRoute
OmniRoute is much bigger: 61.4k stars against 12.9k. Over the days we have tracked them gateway moved +3.2% and OmniRoute +119.3%, so OmniRoute is growing faster right now.
Neither one leads on the six capability axes, so the choice comes down to which of them fits the way you already work.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
A tiny, high-performance LLM gateway that routes to 1,600+ models while providing built-in guardrails, retries, and load‑balancing.
- Stars
- 12.9k
- Tracked growth
- +3.2%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 102d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Uses your provider API keys; self-hosted or hosted enterprise plans.
Provides a single local endpoint that auto-fallbacks across 290+ providers with quota-aware routing and stacked token compression (RTK+Caveman) so you rarely hit limits while saving tokens.
- Stars
- 61.4k
- Tracked growth
- +119.3%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 4h ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free to start; includes keyless free providers
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | gateway | OmniRoute |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff only | ●●●●● Endpoint only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Guardrails & filters | ●●●●● Guardrails & evals |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Custom rules & prompts | ●●●●● Routing combos |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Self-hostable | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Bring-your-own keys | ●●●●● Bring-your-key |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-command start | ●●●●● Zero config |
Which one to pick
Pick gateway if…
Easy setup — Run a lightweight, self-hostable gateway in one command that centralizes routing, guardrails, and provider flexibility.
Pick OmniRoute if…
Easy setup — a fresh install responds out of the box (no API keys) and lets you route across many providers with quota-aware auto-fallback and aggressive token savings.
What people want from each one
Portkey-AI/gateway
diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
- feat(backend): pluggable external durable-state DB backend (PostgreSQL + MySQL) — unified design & demand thread 👍 2
- fix(providers): reasoning effort not shown/configurable on opencode, ollama-cloud and nvidia providers 👍 1
- fix(startup): Electron desktop 'Internal Server Error' on launch (3.8.45 regression) 👍 1
Questions people ask
Is gateway better than OmniRoute?
Neither one leads on the six capability axes, so the choice comes down to which of them fits the way you already work. gateway is worth picking when easy setup — Run a lightweight, self-hostable gateway in one command that centralizes routing, guardrails, and provider flexibility.
Which of gateway and OmniRoute keeps my code private?
gateway: Self-hostable (4/5). OmniRoute: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
gateway: Uses your provider API keys; self-hosted or hosted enterprise plans.. OmniRoute: Free to start; includes keyless free providers.
Full profiles: Portkey-AI/gateway and diegosouzapw/OmniRoute. Everything else in Gateways & routing.