Looking for an OmniRoute alternative? Meet AgentsRoom.

OmniRoute is a free AI gateway under the MIT license: one local endpoint in front of hundreds of model providers, with automatic fallback from your subscription to an API key, then to cheaper and free models, and a compression pipeline that trims tokens on the way. AgentsRoom works one layer above the model: a desktop command center that runs the agent CLIs themselves, each in its own terminal, with a backlog, a diff review, several accounts per provider and a mobile app.

Both tools exist because a usage limit in the middle of a task is the worst moment to stop. OmniRoute answers at the request level: it decides which model serves the next call. AgentsRoom answers at the agent level: it shows the quota of every account before the wall, moves the same conversation to another account you own when one runs out, and keeps a dozen agents organized while they work. The two are not interchangeable, and one can run behind the other.

AgentsRoom: a visual command center for your coding agents, with backlog, roles and per-agent terminals

The difference at a glance

With OmniRoute

One local endpoint, compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, in front of hundreds of model providers
Automatic fallback when a quota runs out or a provider fails: subscription first, then API key, cheaper models and free tiers
A compression pipeline that trims tokens before a request reaches the provider
Free and open source under the MIT license, self-hosted: npm, Docker, a desktop build, even Android through Termux
Works with any tool that accepts a custom endpoint: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot and more
Around the gateway, an orchestration view tracks the tasks it dispatches to cloud agents or to a remote fleet. There is no live terminal per agent, no built-in diff review and no native mobile app

With AgentsRoom

A desktop command center: every agent in its own terminal, with a live status, across all your projects
Runs the agent CLIs as their vendors ship them: Claude, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor and 10 other agent CLIs
Several accounts per provider, a quota bar for each one, and alerts before you reach the wall
At the limit, the same conversation moves to another account you are signed in to and carries on
A backlog the agents work from, a built-in diff review, 14 specialized roles and agent teams
Native iOS and Android apps: a push when an agent is blocked, and you answer it from your phone

Two ways past a usage limit

This is the question that brings most people to OmniRoute, so here is how each tool answers it.

OmniRoute changes the model

OmniRoute sits between your tool and the providers. You declare a chain of targets, and when the subscription you route through it runs out, the next request goes to the next one: another account, an API key, a cheaper model, a free tier. The tool notices nothing and the task keeps moving, possibly on a model that is not the one you started with.

AgentsRoom changes the account

AgentsRoom leaves the CLI untouched and reads the quota bars it publishes. A quota rule you write moves the agents of a saturated account to another account you are signed in to: Claude Code and Codex resume the same conversation with its full history, on the same model. Other rules start new agents on another provider or on a lighter model once a threshold is crossed, and alerts warn you at 50, 75 and 90 percent.

Each question has its own page

Feature-by-feature comparison

An honest OmniRoute comparison starts with what a gateway does and a command center does not. The first rows are the ones OmniRoute wins.

Feature	AgentsRoom	OmniRoute
Open source	✗	✓
Free model tiers built in	✗	✓
Fallback to another model or provider, request by request	✗	✓
Token compression on every request	✗	✓
OpenAI-compatible endpoint for any tool	✗	✓
Runs headless on a server or in Docker	✗	✓
Works with editor extensions (Cline, Continue)	✗	✓
Another account takes over at the limit	✓	✓
Quota and usage tracking	✓	✓
Built-in MCP server	✓	✓
Model per agent	✓	✓
The CLI talks straight to its vendor	✓	✗
Visual interface	✓	Web UI
Agent status (working, waiting, done)	✓	Dispatched tasks
Dedicated terminal per agent	✓	✗
Multi-project management	✓	✗
Drag and drop organization	✓	✗
Task backlog feeding the agents	✓	Task queue
Built-in diff review and commit	✓	✗
Specialized agent roles (14)	✓	✗
Agent teams (visual workflows)	✓	✗
Edit CLAUDE.md from the interface	✓	✗
Desktop and phone notifications	✓	Webhooks
Native mobile app	✓	PWA
Setup time	30 sec	~1 min

What a gateway does not do for you

OmniRoute owns the request. AgentsRoom owns what surrounds the agent that sends it: the ticket that starts the work, the terminal it runs in, the diff that comes out, and the phone in your pocket.

Watch the agent work, not only the task

OmniRoute's dashboard is built around traffic: providers, quotas, cost, latency. Its Orchestration page adds a card for each task it dispatches to a cloud agent or to a remote fleet, with a state and a result to fetch. AgentsRoom shows the session itself: every agent in its own live terminal on your machine, with a status that says working, waiting for you or done, all of it grouped by project. You read what the agent is doing, and you can type into its terminal.

Read the diff before it ships

In AgentsRoom, each agent's changes open as side by side diffs with syntax highlighting, filtered by the agent that wrote them, and end in a commit, all in the same window. In OmniRoute, the result of a dispatched task is a branch to fetch or a pull request: the review happens in your git tools, outside the gateway.

Tickets, not prompts

AgentsRoom carries a Kanban backlog. You write a task, drag it to In Progress, and an agent picks it up with the right role and the right model. OmniRoute queues prompts for cloud agents, or for a fleet hub called OmniConductor, and lists them by state. That is a run queue. A backlog is where the work is written, sorted and assigned before anything runs.

A team, not a pool

OmniRoute pools keys and accounts so that a request always finds capacity. AgentsRoom organizes the agents themselves: 14 specialized roles, a model per agent, and agent teams you draw on a canvas, where Dev hands over to QA and QA to the reviewer, with the summary and the diff passed along.

Every project in one window

Agents are grouped by project and projects by folder, and each level can set its default CLI, account and model. One agent on the API, two on the web app and one on the mobile app stay readable side by side. OmniRoute knows requests and, for a dispatched task, a repository address. It has no workspace per project.

The phone in your pocket

Native iOS and Android apps mirror your agents, send a push when one is blocked or done, and let you answer it from anywhere. OmniRoute takes another route to the phone: its dashboard installs as a PWA and its server can even run on Android through Termux. That brings the gateway to a phone, where AgentsRoom brings the agents' terminals, diffs and questions.

Use both: OmniRoute under AgentsRoom

The two sit at different layers, so nothing stops you from stacking them. AgentsRoom launches the CLI, the CLI calls OmniRoute, OmniRoute picks the model.

Run OmniRoute

Install it and start it. Its endpoint and its dashboard are served from your machine, and the dashboard gives you an API key.

Point an agent at it

In AgentsRoom, add the gateway address and its key as environment variables: on a single agent, on a whole project, or on a provider, which then covers every agent of that CLI on the machine. The key can be a reference to the Secret Manager instead of the token itself.

Launch as usual

Leave the model picker on Default, or pin the gateway's model name in the agent's CLI options. That agent now goes through OmniRoute's routing and compression, and AgentsRoom still gives it a terminal, a status, a ticket and a diff review.

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:20128
ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN={{secret:OMNIROUTE_KEY}}

Environment variables of a Claude Code agent routed through a local OmniRoute

How environment variables work per agent, per project and per provider

See AgentsRoom in action

Watch how AgentsRoom drives several coding agents from a single window, with a backlog, specialized roles and one terminal per agent.

The desktop app, in Simple mode

On a phone the demo runs the real desktop app in its Simple interface mode: one project, its agents, one prompt. The full cockpit is on your computer.

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When OmniRoute might be the better choice

We believe in honest comparisons, and an alternative to OmniRoute is not always what you need. Here are the cases where OmniRoute is the right tool and AgentsRoom is not.

You want free or cheap models

OmniRoute catalogs the free tiers of more than a hundred providers and falls back to them on its own. AgentsRoom brings no model of its own: every agent runs on a subscription or an API key you already have. If the goal is to code without paying for a plan, or to stretch a small budget across cheap models, a gateway is the answer and a command center is not.

Your agent lives in an editor, or in your own code

Cline, Continue, Copilot Chat in VS Code, a script calling an OpenAI-compatible API: anything that accepts a custom endpoint can be pointed at OmniRoute. AgentsRoom runs terminal agent CLIs and nothing else. If your agent is an editor extension, or if you are building your own application on top of model APIs, OmniRoute fits and AgentsRoom does not.

You need open source and self-hosting

OmniRoute ships under the MIT license and is built by hundreds of contributors. You can read the source, fork it, and run it on a VPS, in Docker, on a Raspberry Pi or on a phone through Termux. AgentsRoom is a proprietary desktop application with a free tier. If your policy requires open source, or if the machine has no display, OmniRoute wins on both counts.

You want fewer tokens on every request

OmniRoute's compression pipeline rewrites tool output and prose before they reach the provider, and its documentation reports savings from 15 to 95 percent depending on the mode. AgentsRoom shows what a session consumes and where each quota stands, but it never rewrites what the CLI sends. Shrinking the requests themselves takes something in the request path, which is exactly where a gateway sits.

Getting started takes 30 seconds

AgentsRoom works with the projects and the CLIs you already have. Nothing to migrate, and OmniRoute can stay where it is.

Download AgentsRoom

Download the desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux from agentsroom.dev and open it. That is the install.

Add your projects

Drag your project folders into AgentsRoom. Your existing CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files are detected automatically.

Launch your agents

Create agents with specialized roles, pick a CLI, an account and a model for each, and follow them from your desktop or your phone.

Frequently asked questions

What is OmniRoute?

OmniRoute is a free, open source AI gateway released under the MIT license. It runs on your machine and exposes one endpoint, compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, in front of hundreds of model providers. You point Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline or any tool that accepts a custom endpoint at it, and it routes each request: subscription first, then API key, cheaper models and free tiers, with automatic fallback when a quota runs out or a provider fails. It also compresses requests to save tokens, tracks cost and quota in a dashboard, and ships an MCP server. Recent versions add an orchestration view for tasks dispatched to cloud agents and to a fleet of CLI agents. It started as a fork of 9router and a TypeScript port of CLIProxyAPI.

Is AgentsRoom a replacement for OmniRoute?

Only for part of what people use OmniRoute for. If the goal is to keep coding agents working through usage limits on subscriptions you own, AgentsRoom covers it at the agent level: several accounts per provider, quota bars and alerts, and a rule that moves a running conversation to another account. If the goal is a model gateway, free tiers, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint or token compression, AgentsRoom does none of that and OmniRoute remains the right tool. Among tools like OmniRoute, the closest are other gateways: OmniRoute's own documentation compares it with LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Portkey.

OmniRoute vs AgentsRoom: what is the difference?

The layer. OmniRoute is a gateway: it sits between a tool and the model providers and decides which model answers each request. Around that core, it can dispatch tasks to cloud agents or to a remote fleet and track their state. AgentsRoom is a command center: it runs the agent CLIs on your machine, gives each one a live terminal, a role and a status, feeds them tickets from a backlog, shows the diff they produced and lets you follow them from a phone. AgentsRoom never rewrites a request, and OmniRoute has no terminal where you watch an agent work.

What happens when Claude Code hits its usage limit in each tool?

Through OmniRoute, the next request is served by the next target of your routing chain, which can be another account, an API key or another model, and the CLI does not notice. In AgentsRoom, the CLI talks to Anthropic directly: a quota rule moves the agent to another Claude account you are signed in to, and the same conversation resumes with its history, on the same model. Without a second account the agent stops and tells you when the window resets, and usage alerts at 50, 75 and 90 percent warn you before that happens.

Can I use OmniRoute and AgentsRoom together?

Yes. AgentsRoom passes environment variables to the CLI it launches, at three levels: one agent, a whole project, or a provider. Setting the gateway address and its key there sends that agent's requests through OmniRoute, while AgentsRoom keeps doing its own job around it. That lets you run some agents on a subscription and others on cheaper or free models, side by side in the same project.

Is OmniRoute free? Is AgentsRoom?

OmniRoute is free and open source under the MIT license, funded by sponsors and donations. You pay only for the providers you connect, and many of them have a free tier. AgentsRoom is a proprietary application with a free tier covering 2 projects and 6 agents in parallel, and paid plans that lift those caps. Signing in to extra accounts of the same provider, which the account switch relies on, starts with the Plus plan. In both cases you bring your own subscriptions or API keys.

What about the providers' terms of service?

Read them in both cases. OmniRoute documents the question itself: its free tier reference includes a terms of service table, marked as advisory, that notes which providers restrict access through a proxy and leaves the decision to you. AgentsRoom does not sit between a CLI and its vendor: each agent is the vendor's own CLI, signed in to an account you own, and the account switch relies on the account isolation each CLI documents.

Does OmniRoute have a mobile app?

Not a native one. Its dashboard installs as a PWA from the browser, and the server itself can run on Android through Termux. Both give you the gateway on a phone. AgentsRoom ships native iOS and Android apps that mirror your agents: a push notification when one is blocked or finished, the terminal output, the diff, and a reply from wherever you are.