OrcaRouter Lite

Every prompt your application sends is a small buying decision, and OrcaRouter Lite makes it a smart one instead of a habit. Point your app at one OpenAI-compatible endpoint on your server, and each request is shopped across the providers whose keys you hold: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, and dozens more. Send model set to auto and the router picks the cheapest model that can actually do the job, checking whether the request needs tools, vision, or JSON mode before it commits your money. Prefer a different tradeoff and you can switch the whole gateway between balanced, cheapest, fastest, and quality strategies, with quality picks driven by real benchmark scores rather than vibes. Clients that speak Anthropic's or Gemini's native protocols connect directly too, so Claude Code, the OpenAI SDK, and google-genai all land on the same routing pipeline. Streaming responses flow through untouched, and every answer reports which model really served it. The built-in dashboard shows recent requests, spend, latency percentiles, unreachable providers, and a savings tile that tells you what your traffic would have cost if you had blindly used a flagship model for everything. Your provider keys stay encrypted on your own box, your analytics never leave it, and if every local provider has a bad day, the hosted OrcaRouter can step in as a failover safety net. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

OrcaRouter Lite

Benefits

  • One endpoint, every provider
  • Point your OpenAI SDK, Claude Code, or Gemini client at a single base URL and let the gateway route across 40+ providers, so switching models becomes a routing decision instead of a code change.
  • Cheapest capable model, automatically
  • Sending model as auto selects the lowest-cost model that satisfies each request's real requirements, checking tool use, vision, and JSON mode first, which quietly removes flagship pricing from routine calls.
  • Your keys stay yours
  • Bring your own provider keys, stored encrypted on your server with no usage markup and no per-seat pricing. You pay providers directly for tokens, and analytics never leave your infrastructure.
  • Spend you can actually see
  • The dashboard tracks every request with its resolved model, latency percentiles, provider health, and a savings report comparing your real spend against always using a flagship model.

Features

  • Four routing strategies
  • Switch the gateway between balanced, cheapest, fastest, and quality at runtime through the routing API, with quality selections guided by Artificial Analysis benchmark scores.
  • Three native protocols
  • Accepts OpenAI chat completions, Anthropic Messages, and Gemini generateContent requests on one pipeline, so different SDKs share routing, keys, and logging without adapters.
  • Encrypted key management
  • Add, list, and revoke provider keys and gateway API keys over the API, with provider credentials encrypted at rest and rotation-safe invalidation across multiple workers via Redis.
  • Hosted failover safety net
  • Optionally add the hosted OrcaRouter as one more provider in the chain, covering models you hold no keys for and catching traffic when local providers are unreachable.
  • Zero-infrastructure storage
  • Runs on SQLite out of the box with no Postgres or Redis required, and scales to Postgres plus Redis pub/sub invalidation when you move to multiple workers.

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