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.