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LLM router projects on GitHub
Gateways that route requests across multiple language model providers and APIs.
As of , the most-starred LLM router projects on GitHub are awesome-free-llm-apis (10.4K stars), bifrost (8.9K stars) and ClawRouter (6.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 LLM router repositories with 35.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was monid, with +262 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+262monid
monid-ai/monid · ★ 4.7KIt's 'OpenRouter for agent tools': one base URL and one key give an agent access to 2,000+ tools across 72+ providers, so you integrate one API instead of wiring up dozens of vendors yourself.
+76awesome-free-llm-apis
mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis · ★ 10.4KA curated list of LLM APIs that offer permanent free tiers for text inference. Every entry links straight to the provider's API key page, so you can register and start calling models at no cost.
+25bifrost
maximhq/bifrost · ★ 8.9KAn open-source, high-performance AI gateway that unifies 23+ LLM providers behind a single OpenAI-compatible API, with automatic failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and budget controls built in.
+3jev-router
gargpratyush/jev-router · ★ 602jev-router automatically picks the cheapest capable AI model for each turn in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex, sending simple requests to a fast/cheap tier and hard requests to a stronger tier, while keeping each CLI's native interface, tools, and authentication untouched.
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8 projects · by stars
- 10.4K
#1 · mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apisawesome-free-llm-apis
A curated list of LLM APIs that offer permanent free tiers for text inference. Every entry links straight to the provider's API key page, so you can register and start calling models at no cost.
- 8.9K
#2 · maximhq/bifrostbifrost
An open-source, high-performance AI gateway that unifies 23+ LLM providers behind a single OpenAI-compatible API, with automatic failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and budget controls built in.
- 6.6K
#3 · BlockRunAI/ClawRouterClawRouter
ClawRouter is an open-source LLM router built for autonomous agents: it picks the cheapest capable model from 78 models across 9 providers in under 1ms, entirely locally, and lets an agent pay per request with USDC (via the x402 protocol) instead of signing up for a human account.
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monid
4.7Kmonid-ai/monid · TypeScriptIt's 'OpenRouter for agent tools': one base URL and one key give an agent access to 2,000+ tools across 72+ providers, so you integrate one API instead of wiring up dozens of vendors yourself.
- 5

grok-bot-0.18-reconstructed
3.5Kb-nnett/grok-bot-0.18-reconstructed · TypeScriptIt's an unofficial, source-oriented reconstruction of the publicly shipped Grok Bot 0.18.0 macOS app, rebuilt into readable TypeScript sources and extended with an inference router, MCP tools, local usage tracking, and an optional local Docker sandbox.
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jev-router
602gargpratyush/jev-router · JavaScriptjev-router automatically picks the cheapest capable AI model for each turn in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex, sending simple requests to a fast/cheap tier and hard requests to a stronger tier, while keeping each CLI's native interface, tools, and authentication untouched.
- 7

dsh-router-standard
349yjh051108/dsh-router-standard · JavaScriptRouter Standard is a task-aware reasoning-mode router preset for DeepSeek Harness: it classifies a session's first real user message into a persona band (spec / react / weak) and injects the matching persona and first-turn tool surface for DeepSeek V4 models.
- 8

busbar
194GetBusbar/busbar · RustBusbar is a self-hosted execution control plane that sits between AI applications and the AI providers they call, letting operators verify, govern, route, and record every model request, MCP tool call, and A2A agent delegation before it reaches its destination.
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