my-free-code vs OmniRoute
OmniRoute is much bigger: 63.8k stars against 633.
OmniRoute leads on setup ease. my-free-code does not take any axis by a clear margin.
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
Multi-provider gateway that routes Claude Code and other coding agents across a broad provider catalog with ordered fallbacks and local-model runtimes.
- Stars
- 633
- Tracked growth
- not tracked long enough
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 20h ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your API keys for upstream providers; local models run locally (no provider fees).
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
- 63.8k
- Tracked growth
- +127.7%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 9h 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 | my-free-code | 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. | ●●●●● Basic filters | ●●●●● Guardrails & evals |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Env/config options | ●●●●● Routing combos |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Runs fully local | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Bring-your-own provider | ●●●●● Bring-your-key |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Env + API key | ●●●●● Zero config |
Which one to pick
Pick my-free-code if…
Privacy-first — run a self-hosted gateway that supports many upstream providers plus local runtimes (Ollama/llama.cpp) for Claude Code and other coding agents.
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.
- Setup ease: Zero config (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
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 my-free-code better than OmniRoute?
OmniRoute leads on setup ease. my-free-code does not take any axis by a clear margin. my-free-code is worth picking when privacy-first — run a self-hosted gateway that supports many upstream providers plus local runtimes (Ollama/llama.cpp) for Claude Code and other coding agents.
Which of my-free-code and OmniRoute keeps my code private?
my-free-code: Runs fully local (5/5). OmniRoute: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
my-free-code: Your API keys for upstream providers; local models run locally (no provider fees).. OmniRoute: Free to start; includes keyless free providers.
Full profiles: hkqr/my-free-code and diegosouzapw/OmniRoute. Everything else in Gateways & routing.