9router vs ShareQuota
Two free, MIT-licensed routers that sign in to the AI plans you already pay for. One is a Node.js service built to be shared; the other is a single binary built to be yours.
9router is a free, open-source AI router written in JavaScript that connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot and Antigravity to more than forty providers, with automatic fallback across subscription, pay-per-token and free tiers, built-in token compression, and a deployment story that includes Docker and a shared VPS. ShareQuota is a free, MIT-licensed router written in Go that pools five providers — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and OpenRouter — behind one local endpoint as a single static binary, with four client dialects, reversible one-click setup for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, and a management API that only answers on localhost. They solve the same problem for different rooms: 9router for a team behind one gateway, ShareQuota for one developer on one machine.
Side by side
Eleven facts, read from each project’s own repository and site on 2026-09-13. Where a row favours the other tool, the row says so.
| Fact | ShareQuota | 9router |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | — | 28,600+ |
| Written in | Go | JavaScript |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| What you run | One static binary | Node.js · Docker |
| Providers reached | 5 | 40+ |
| Signs in to a subscription plan | Yes | Yes |
| Client dialects served | Anthropic, OpenAI, Responses, Gemini | Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini |
| Coding tools named as supported | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Cline, Copilot | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot, Antigravity |
| Built as a shared team gateway | No | Yes |
| Token compression built in | No | Yes |
| Runs on your machine, no service between | Yes | Yes |
Star counts are rounded down to the hundred. ShareQuota’s repository is public but new, and its count is not yet a fact worth printing.
Which one, for what
Pick 9router when
- Several people should share one gateway, on a VPS or in Docker.
- You want the long tail — forty-plus providers, including ones none of ShareQuota’s five carry.
- Token compression on every request matters to you, and you accept a Node.js runtime to get it.
Pick ShareQuota when
- You want one file, no runtime and no container — download, run, done.
- Nothing about your requests should leave your machine, and a loopback-only management API is a feature.
- You would rather have five providers under 3,015 tests than forty without a fixture in sight.
Questions about the pair
For a single developer, yes — it does the same core job: one endpoint, subscription login, failover across your own accounts, and the coding tools switched over for you. It is not a replacement for 9router’s team deployment, its forty-plus providers or its token compression; those are things 9router does and this binary does not.
Yes. They bind different ports, keep separate state, and neither touches the other’s files. Point one tool at each and compare the answer you get; the CLI integrations on both sides restore the original config when disabled.
ShareQuota is one static Go binary with three direct dependencies and no runtime. 9router runs on Node.js. Whether that matters depends on whether you already have Node on the machine — on a fresh VPS or a locked-down laptop it usually does.