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Rate-limiting projects on GitHub

Traffic throttling strategies protecting services from overload.

As of , the most-starred Rate-limiting projects on GitHub are kong (44.3K stars), hackathon-starter (35.3K stars) and go-zero (33.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 23 Rate-limiting repositories with 372.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was 9router, with +57 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+57

9router

decolua/9router · ★ 30.9K

9Router is a local AI router and token saver: it connects coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Cline to 40+ providers and 100+ models, auto-falls back from your subscription to cheap and free models, and compresses tool output to save 20-40% of tokens.

+40

chinese-poetry-api

palemoky/chinese-poetry-api · ★ 3.4K

A high-performance API service for Chinese classical poetry written in Go, exposing both REST and GraphQL endpoints over a dataset of nearly 400,000 poems spanning Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan qu and more.

+25

bifrost

maximhq/bifrost · ★ 8.9K

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.

+12

SafeLine

chaitin/SafeLine · ★ 22.8K

SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy that protects your web apps from attacks and exploits by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic.

The all-time top

23 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Kong/kong

    kong

    Kong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.

    44.3K
  2. #2 · sahat/hackathon-starter

    hackathon-starter

    Hackathon Starter is a boilerplate for Node.js web applications that bundles login, OAuth, and dozens of API integrations so you don't have to set them up from scratch during a hackathon.

    35.3K
  3. #3 · zeromicro/go-zero

    go-zero

    go-zero is a cloud-native Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, packed with built-in engineering practices. It has been serving sites with tens of millions of users for years and is listed in the CNCF Landscape.

    33.4K
  1. 4

    9router

    30.9Kdecolua/9router · JavaScript

    9Router is a local AI router and token saver: it connects coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Cline to 40+ providers and 100+ models, auto-falls back from your subscription to cheap and free models, and compresses tool output to save 20-40% of tokens.

  2. 5

    nginxconfig.io

    28.3Kdigitalocean/nginxconfig.io · JavaScript

    A free web-based NGINX configuration generator by DigitalOcean: you pick what your server needs and it produces a tuned config for your use case.

  3. 6

    redisson

    24.4Kredisson/redisson · Java

    A Java client and real-time data platform for Redis and Valkey: 50+ distributed Java objects, collections and services — maps, queues, locks, rate limiters, bloom filters, schedulers — beyond what Redis offers natively.

  4. 7

    API-Security-Checklist

    23.3Kshieldfy/API-Security-Checklist

    A community checklist of the most important security countermeasures to apply when designing, testing, and releasing an API — a list of checkboxes you run through before shipping.

  5. 8

    Sentinel

    23.1Kalibaba/Sentinel · Java

    Sentinel is a flow control, traffic shaping, circuit breaking and system adaptive overload protection component for microservices, built and battle-tested at Alibaba across years of Double-11 shopping festivals.

  6. 9

    SafeLine

    22.8Kchaitin/SafeLine · Go

    SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy that protects your web apps from attacks and exploits by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic.

  7. 10

    system-design-resources

    18.5KInterviewReady/system-design-resources

    A curated collection of the best System Design resources on the Internet — one README that organizes engineering writeups, papers and talks into a topic-by-topic reading list.

  8. 11

    goproxy

    17.1Ksnail007/goproxy · Go

    goproxy is a high-performance proxy server written in Go. A single binary handles HTTP(S), SOCKS5, SS, WebSocket, TCP and UDP proxying, plus TCP/UDP port forwarding and intranet penetration for exposing servers behind NAT.

  9. 12

    claude-relay-service

    12.7KWei-Shaw/claude-relay-service · JavaScript

    Claude Relay Service (CRS) is a self-hosted relay/proxy you run yourself to access Claude (plus OpenAI/Codex, Gemini CLI, and Droid) through your own server, letting you manage multiple accounts and share subscription costs with friends.

  10. 13

    opencode-antigravity-auth

    10.9KNoeFabris/opencode-antigravity-auth · TypeScript

    It's an OpenCode plugin that authenticates via Google OAuth against Antigravity (Google's IDE), letting OpenCode use Antigravity's quota to run models like Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 4.6-thinking under your own Google account instead of a separate API key.

  11. 14

    tyk

    10.9KTykTechnologies/tyk · Go

    Tyk is an open-source, cloud-native API Gateway that lets you manage REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol) traffic in one place, adding authentication, rate limiting, quotas and analytics to your APIs.

  12. 15

    rq

    10.7Krq/rq · Python

    RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for putting jobs on a queue and processing them in the background with worker processes, backed by Redis or Valkey.

  13. 16

    roomGPT

    10.7KNutlope/roomGPT · TypeScript

    RoomGPT lets you upload a photo of any room and generates an AI-redesigned version of it using a machine learning model.

  14. 17

    bifrost

    8.9Kmaximhq/bifrost · Go

    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.

  15. 18

    chinese-poetry-api

    3.4Kpalemoky/chinese-poetry-api · Go

    A high-performance API service for Chinese classical poetry written in Go, exposing both REST and GraphQL endpoints over a dataset of nearly 400,000 poems spanning Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan qu and more.

  16. 19

    chatbot-template

    1.2Kshadcn-ui/chatbot-template · TypeScript

    A minimal chatbot template built with Next.js, the AI SDK, and shadcn/ui, wired up to run on the Vercel AI Gateway.

  17. 20

    SideRail

    589icubaby/SideRail · TypeScript

    SideRail is a neobrutalist web control panel for Xray-core VPN servers that you deploy to Railway with one click, giving you clean client links, live stats and subscription pages without manual config.

  18. 21

    buscandomilhao

    401soumatheusgomes/buscandomilhao

    It is an AI agent that prospects for leads on Instagram on its own: it finds leads, qualifies them, writes the first message, reads replies, carries the conversation, hands off to WhatsApp, and learns from what converted to adjust audience, copy, timing and cadence.

  19. 22

    3d-asset-server

    313arielshad/3d-asset-server · TypeScript

    3d-asset-server searches 19 different 3D asset sites at once (Poly Haven, ambientCG, BlenderKit, Kenney, and more) and downloads whatever you pick, ready to drop into a game or website.

  20. 23

    underclass

    237ghuntley/underclass · Rust

    It pools multiple ChatGPT/Codex and GitHub Copilot subscriptions behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint — when one account runs dry it cools down until its window resets and comes back on its own.

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