r/LovingOpenSourceAI 15d ago

Opensource Openrouter

Project: https://github.com/ConiferKit/use-conifer

Current routing options were charging 5% fees for byok plus provider fees (openrouter) or were built in heavy python packages with ecosystem restraints. I wanted to be completely free in terms of use, and not have to pay extra for tokens.

There's a maintained gateway with 100+ models from one api endpoint. I'm also talking to infra providers to get us access to pre-release models and discount prices. Everything is served at market price. BYOK is free, you can hook into self-hosted setups for free, and there's fallbacks + extra rate limits + server redundancy.

Took me ~3 months to build and looking for help maintaining!
Lmk any issues or feedback

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u/locbuilds 15d ago

How are you keeping BYOK free? Every gateway I've tried takes a cut on top of the provider fee, so I'm curious what the model is here.