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freellmapi

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freellmapi: An OpenAI-compatible gateway for aggregating free LLM providers and custom endpoints.

What problem it solves

Combining free-tier AI providers manually requires handling separate SDKs, rate limits, and failure modes. Provider catalogs and quotas also change frequently, making it difficult to keep a multi-provider setup current and within usage limits.

Key features

  • Unified API surfaces — Expose chat, responses, completions, media generation, speech, transcriptions, embeddings, and model discovery through a single OpenAI-compatible API.

    Source: README

  • Routing and failover — Rank available models with routing strategies and automatically retry the next model when a provider returns a rate-limit or server error.

    Source: README

  • Quota-aware usage tracking — Track request and token counters for each platform, model, and key to keep routing within provider limits.

    Source: README

  • Encrypted key management — Store provider credentials encrypted at rest and expose a single unified bearer token to applications.

    Source: README

  • Current model catalog — Synchronize a signed catalog containing new models, quota changes, and provider compatibility fixes without requiring a repository update.

    Source: README

Quick start

Copied verbatim from the project's README.

curl -fsSL https://freellmapi.co/install.sh | bash
npx freellmapi setup-claude --url http://localhost:3001 --api-key <unified-key>

Who it may suit

Inference: This may suit developers experimenting with several free LLM providers who want one local API and centralized routing. It may also suit users of OpenAI-compatible clients and coding agents that need a unified base URL and bearer key.

Topics to discuss

  • Which provider capabilities should receive priority in the unified model catalog?

  • How should routing strategies balance model quality, reliability, and quota availability?

  • What failure patterns should the dashboard and analytics expose to help users diagnose requests?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi#readme

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