OmniRoute vs ShareQuota
The widest free AI gateway there is, beside the narrowest one that still signs in to your plans. Both are MIT; the difference is what each one chose to be good at.
OmniRoute is a free, MIT-licensed AI gateway written in TypeScript that exposes one OpenAI-compatible endpoint over 352 providers and more than 1,200 models, with quota-aware auto-fallback, stacked token compression, MCP and A2A support, a desktop app, and a contributor base in the hundreds. ShareQuota is a free, MIT-licensed router written in Go that deliberately reaches five providers — the ones with subscriptions worth pooling — from a single static binary, speaks four client dialects, and switches Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI over with a backup taken first. OmniRoute is the answer to "reach everything"; ShareQuota is the answer to "run the least".
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 | OmniRoute |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | — | 65,500+ |
| Written in | Go | TypeScript |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| What you run | One static binary | Node.js · Docker · Electron |
| Providers reached | 5 | 352 |
| 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, OpenCode, Cline, Copilot |
| 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 OmniRoute when
- You need providers ShareQuota does not carry, or the free tiers it aggregates from dozens of them.
- Token compression, MCP or a desktop dashboard are part of how you work.
- You are happy with Node.js, Docker or Electron as the thing that runs it.
Pick ShareQuota when
- Five providers are the five you actually own, and one binary is the whole install.
- The surface should be small enough to audit: 26 packages, 3 direct dependencies, one SQLite file.
- Reversibility matters — every CLI config is backed up before the first write and restored on disable.
Questions about the pair
For the core case — one endpoint in front of the Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini plans you already pay for, with failover between them — yes. For breadth it is not: OmniRoute reaches roughly seventy times as many providers and ships features this binary does not have. The compare page says so in its own first row.
Because those five are the ones with subscriptions worth pooling, and one of them is OpenRouter, which carries most of the long tail. Every provider added is a translator to test; five under golden fixtures was the trade chosen over hundreds without.
Both serve the Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini dialects, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline and Copilot can point at either. ShareQuota also serves the OpenAI Responses dialect on its own path, which is what Codex CLI speaks natively.