I spent ~4.5 months building a free, self-hosted AI gateway: one endpoint for 237 providers (90+ free), auto-fallback, and a token-compression pipeline (MIT)
Sharing an open-source project I've put ~4.5 months into (disclosure: I'm the maintainer; per the self-advertisement rule I'm keeping the link in the first comment and making this post substantive). It started from two problems I hit daily: AI runs dying on a provider rate limit,
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Sharing an open-source project I've put ~4.5 months into (disclosure: I'm the maintainer; per the self-advertisement rule I'm keeping the link in the first comment and making this post substantive). It started from two problems I hit daily: AI runs dying on a provider rate limit, and burning thousands of tokens dumping tool/log output into the context window. One endpoint, 237 providers — 90+ of t
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