Inference & Runtime

Model serving, execution runtimes, acceleration, and routing for inference workloads.

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Production model serving frameworks and stacks.

AIBrix

AIBrix is a cloud-native infrastructure framework for large-scale LLM inference, providing scalable and cost-efficient inference components.

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BentoML

BentoML is an open-source framework for packaging, containerizing, and deploying machine learning models into production-ready services.

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Beta9

An open-source serverless runtime for AI workloads providing ultrafast container startup, GPU support, and scale-to-zero capabilities.

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Dynamo

Explore Dynamo by NVIDIA, an open-source framework for efficient multi-GPU inference, optimizing throughput and latency for large-scale deployments.

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Golem

An open source durable computing platform that simplifies building and deploying highly reliable distributed systems.

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gpustack

Open-source GPU cluster manager for efficient model training and high-performance inference orchestration.

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HAMi

Discover HAMi, the middleware that simplifies AI resource management across diverse hardware, enhancing performance and cluster utilization in cloud-native environments.

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Kaito

Kaito is a Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator that automates deployment and management of large-model inference and tuning workflows, with built-in RAG support and node auto-provisioning.

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KServe

KServe: a Kubernetes-native model inference platform for scalable predictive and generative AI deployments.

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kvcached

Virtualized elastic KV cache that brings OS-style virtual memory to LLM systems, enabling demand-driven KV allocation and improved GPU utilization.

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LMCache

A high-performance KV cache layer for LLM serving that reduces time-to-first-token and increases throughput, especially for long-context and multi-turn scenarios.

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Modular Platform

An open, production-grade AI platform including the MAX inference server and Mojo libraries to accelerate model deployment across hardware.

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NVIDIA Cloud Functions

NVIDIA Cloud Functions (NVCF) is a platform for deploying, managing, and running GPU-accelerated inference and streaming workloads at scale, powering build.nvidia.com.

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oMLX

Local LLM server for Apple Silicon with continuous batching and SSD caching. Native macOS menu bar app, OpenAI-compatible API, optimized for Claude Code. Supports multiple model types including text LLMs, VLMs, and embedding models.

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Roboflow Inference

Roboflow Inference is a computer-vision inference and workflow platform that supports local and cloud deployment, video stream workflows, and rich model integrations.

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sglang-omni

A multi-stage serving runtime for omni, speech, and TTS models from the SGLang project, designed for multi-stage decoding across heterogeneous stages and exposed through OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

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SIE

Open-source inference server and production cluster that serves all the models your agent needs with shared GPU resources.

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TensorRT-LLM

NVIDIA's open-source toolbox for optimized LLM inference, designed for efficient GPU serving and enterprise deployment.

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Triton Inference Server

Triton Inference Server: NVIDIA's high-performance inference server supporting multiple model formats and deployment options.

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vLLM

High-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for large language models.

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Runtime engines and low-level inference kernels.

Amplifier

Microsoft's tooling for development and deployment assistance, aimed at performance analysis, model deployment and pipeline support for AI projects.

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Candle

Candle by Hugging Face: a minimalist, high-performance ML framework in Rust designed for serverless inference and lightweight deployments.

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Chitu

A production-focused inference framework for large language models, offering high performance, multi-hardware support, and scalable deployment.

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Coral NPU

Coral NPU is an energy-efficient machine learning accelerator core for edge devices provided by Google Coral.

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DeepGEMM

Clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling to support accurate and performant low-precision matrix computations.

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exo

exo: Run your own AI cluster at home using everyday devices, supporting distributed inference and a ChatGPT-compatible API.

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Flash Attention

Fast and memory-efficient exact attention implementation optimized for large Transformer training and inference.

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Flash Linear Attention (fla)

A Triton-based, PyTorch library of efficient linear-attention kernels and models for scalable sequence modeling.

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FlashInfer

FlashInfer is a kernel library and JIT toolset for LLM serving that implements efficient attention and sampling kernels to improve GPU throughput and latency for inference serving.

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Genesis

Universal physics simulation and generative data platform for robotics and embodied AI, open-source physics engine.

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gpt-oss

gpt-oss is an open-weight model series released by OpenAI, designed for high-reasoning and customizable developer use cases.

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KAI Scheduler

A Kubernetes-native scheduler for large-scale AI workloads, providing efficient resource orchestration and optimization for containerized AI training and inference workflows.

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KTransformers

A flexible framework for LLM inference optimizations, offering kernel injection, prefix caching and multi-level acceleration strategies.

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KubeAI

An AI inferencing operator for Kubernetes that simplifies deploying LLMs, embeddings, and speech-to-text services.

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KubeRay

KubeRay is the Ray Project's open-source Kubernetes operator for deploying and managing Ray applications on Kubernetes.

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LiteRT

A high-performance, scalable lightweight deep learning inference runtime for edge devices.

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llama.cpp

llama.cpp is a lightweight LLM inference library in C/C++, designed for efficient local and cloud inference across diverse hardware.

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llm-d

A Kubernetes-native distributed inference stack providing well‑lit paths for high-performance LLM serving across diverse accelerators.

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Machine Learning Systems (MLSysBook)

An open-source textbook on engineering real-world AI systems, covering system design from edge devices to cloud deployment.

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Mini-SGLang

A lightweight, high-performance inference framework for large language models that balances engineering practicality with readability.

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mistral.rs

mistral.rs is a lightweight, high-performance Rust inference library for running Mistral-family models in resource-constrained environments.

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MLX LM

A Python toolkit for running and fine-tuning LLMs on Apple Silicon, with support for quantization, distributed inference and Hugging Face integration.

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Mooncake

Mooncake is a KVCache-centric disaggregated architecture for LLM serving, providing a high-performance Transfer Engine and distributed KVCache storage.

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NCCL

High-performance collective communication primitives for GPUs, optimized for PCIe, NVLink, NVSwitch and RDMA networks.

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Ollama

Local large language model runner that enables users to easily run and manage various open-source LLM models in local environments.

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ONNX

ONNX is an open model exchange format and ecosystem that improves interoperability between frameworks, tools, and hardware.

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ONNX Runtime

ONNX Runtime is a cross-platform, high-performance machine learning inference and training accelerator that runs models exported from PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras and traditional ML libraries across diverse hardware.

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OpenVINO

OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit from Intel for optimizing and deploying deep learning models for inference.

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Outlines

A library for structured generation that simplifies producing and validating JSON/Pydantic outputs directly from LLMs.

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RamaLama

RamaLama simplifies running and serving AI models by packaging them as OCI container images and choosing hardware-optimized images for the host automatically.

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SGLang

High-performance open-source framework for LLM and VLM inference, supporting multimodal, extreme concurrency, and flexible frontend programming.

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Spice.ai

An open-source accelerated engine for time-series and data-grounded AI, offering SQL queries, full-text search, and LLM inference.

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tinygrad

tinygrad is a minimalist deep learning library that implements tensor operations and autodiff with very little code, making it ideal for learning and experimentation.

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Triton

Triton is a language and toolchain for high-performance deep learning kernels and compiler development, designed to simplify GPU kernel programming while delivering strong performance.

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vLLM Production Stack

A reference system for Kubernetes-native cluster deployment and community-driven performance optimization for vLLM.

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XGrammar

An efficient, flexible and portable structured generation engine that enforces syntactic correctness via constrained decoding.

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Xinference (Xorbits Inference)

A model serving and inference framework that supports multiple backends, distributed deployments, and OpenAI-compatible APIs.

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Sandboxes and isolated execution environments for AI workloads.

Agent Executor (AX)

Google's open source distributed agent runtime that coordinates agentic loops, manages executions with event logging, and provides native recovery and resumption for reliable agent deployments.

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Agent Sandbox

An experimental sandbox project by Kubernetes SIGs aiming to provide a Kubernetes-native environment for running, orchestrating, and managing agent workloads securely and at scale.

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AgentENV

Distributed platform for running agent environments at scale, powering agentic RL training for Kimi K3.

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AIO Sandbox

All-in-one sandbox environment for AI agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server into a single containerized runtime.

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BoxLite

A lightweight runtime and container tooling for embedding, sandboxing, and shipping AI agents.

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CubeSandbox

A high-performance, hardware-isolated sandbox service for AI agents built on RustVMM and KVM, with E2B SDK compatibility and sub-60ms cold starts.

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Daytona

Secure and elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code with isolated sandboxes, concurrency and persistent sandbox state.

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E2B

Secure open source cloud runtime for AI apps & AI agents.

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Flox

A Nix-powered, reproducible and shareable development environment and package manager.

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herdr

The runtime coding agents live on — a Rust terminal multiplexer that keeps agent terminals running in a background server, marks every pane working, blocked, or idle, and lets agents drive it through a CLI and socket API.

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KCoral

A lightweight benchmark server from MLC AI that executes GPU programs remotely for agentic GPU programming. It manages GPU and node resources behind a unified endpoint, with sandboxed workers and a Rust router for multi-node scheduling.

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LiteBox

A security-focused library OS that minimizes host interfaces and supports kernel- and user-mode constrained execution.

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Monty

A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for safely executing LLM-generated Python code.

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OM1

OpenMind's modular AI runtime for deploying multimodal agents across digital environments and physical robots

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OpenSandbox

A universal sandbox platform for AI application scenarios, providing multi-language SDKs, a unified sandbox protocol, and extensible runtimes.

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OpenShell

NVIDIA OpenShell is a safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents, providing sandboxed execution environments with declarative YAML policies to protect data, credentials, and infrastructure from unauthorized access.

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SandBase Harness

A local-first, self-hosted runtime for building and operating AI agents, providing persistent sessions, sandboxed execution backends, credential vaults, approval gates, audit trails, and replay.

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Sandbox Runtime

A lightweight sandboxing tool for enforcing filesystem and network restrictions on arbitrary processes at the OS level, without requiring a container.

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Strands Box

An open source sandbox engine for AI agents that combines OS-level isolation with default-deny Dogwood policies and credential injection, keeping secrets outside the agent process. Written in Rust, currently supporting macOS on Apple silicon.

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GPU-oriented acceleration and performance optimization.

CUTLASS

CUDA Templates for Linear Algebra Subroutines (CUTLASS), a high-performance matrix computation template library provided by NVIDIA.

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FlashMLA

Efficient multi-head latent attention kernels designed to accelerate large-scale Transformer training and inference with reduced memory footprint.

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Lupine

A GPU over IP bridge that lets CPU-only machines attach and use GPUs hosted on remote machines over the network.

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TileLang

TileLang is a domain-specific language for high-performance AI kernels that simplifies writing GPU/CPU/accelerator operators.

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Transformer Engine

Transformer Engine is an NVIDIA library focused on low-precision training and inference optimizations for Transformer models, supporting formats like FP8 to improve speed and memory efficiency.

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XLA

XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra) is a compiler for machine learning that generates optimized code for CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators to improve model execution performance.

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On-device and local inference systems.

Cactus

An energy-efficient inference engine and numerical computing framework for phones, optimized for ARM CPUs to run large models with low power and memory footprint.

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FreeToken

An edge-native Mixture-of-Experts serving engine that runs 290B+ frontier open-weight models locally on consumer hardware, treating GPUs, CPUs, host memory, and interconnects as one elastic inference platform.

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ggml

ggml is a lightweight tensor library for machine learning optimized for efficient model inference across hardware.

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laya-mlx

Native MLX runtime for Laya typed decision models: answers constrained questions (choice, rubric score, yes/no) with calibrated probabilities from a single bidirectional forward pass — 7–14 ms on M3 Max, no text generation, PyTorch, or cloud API.

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Transformers.js

Transformers.js: a JavaScript implementation of Hugging Face Transformers for the browser and Node, with WASM/ONNX backends for optimized on-device inference.

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WebLLM

High-performance in-browser LLM inference engine that leverages WebGPU for hardware-accelerated, privacy-preserving inference in the browser.

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Routing, policy, and gateway controls for model access.

9router

A free AI router and token saver that connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot and other coding tools to 40+ providers and 100+ models, with tiered auto-fallback from subscriptions to cheap and free tiers and 20-40% token savings.

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Agent Router

An open source control plane for AI and agent traffic built on Envoy Gateway, providing a unified OpenAI-compatible API with centralized credentials, routing, quotas, and failover. Formerly Envoy AI Gateway.

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agentgateway

A high-performance proxy data plane for agents, providing security, observability, and governance capabilities for agent-to-agent and agent-to-tool communication.

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AI Gateway (Portkey)

Portkey's AI Gateway is a high-performance, enterprise-ready LLM routing and governance platform that supports many model providers and rich guardrail policies.

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ArchGW

ArchGW is a model-native proxy server for agents that provides routing, guardrails, tool calling and end-to-end observability.

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Claude Code Router

An intelligent code routing tool that optimizes Claude AI request distribution and response handling in code development, enhancing development efficiency.

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ClawRouter

ClawRouter is an agent-native LLM router empowering OpenClaw with smart routing, cost optimization, and micropayments support.

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CloudBase AI ToolKit

CloudBase AI ToolKit provides out-of-the-box AI IDE, frontend and backend templates, and deployment pipelines to help developers quickly generate, deploy and host full-stack AI applications.

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freelm

freelm is an LLM router that pools the official free tiers of Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, Cerebras, Mistral, NVIDIA NIM, Cloudflare Workers AI and other providers behind one OpenAI-compatible API, using the user's own keys. It runs in-process as a Python or TypeScript library or as a local server (`freelm serve`), routing each request by measured latency and per-model quota, with classified failure handling and racing of slow providers — free-only by design.

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Gateway API Inference Extension

Combines Gateway API with Envoy External Processing to provide a Kubernetes-native inference gateway for optimizing GenAI inference deployments.

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HarnessRouter

Self-hosted unified interface for agent harnesses that runs Codex, Claude Code, and 26 harness bases through one OpenAI Responses-compatible API, implementing the open Unified Harness Protocol (UHP).

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Higress

A cloud-native API gateway based on Istio and Envoy that supports Wasm plugins and AI Gateway features including MCP hosting and multi-model integrations.

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Kinference

An inference control plane for Kubernetes and vLLM that selects among inference endpoints while applying policies, routing, and load balancing. It monitors vLLM KV-cache events and engine metrics to make placement decisions.

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LiteLLM

LiteLLM is a lightweight LLM gateway and proxy framework providing a unified OpenAI-format API, routing, rate-limits, and pluggable provider integrations for production deployments.

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llms.py

Lightweight multi-provider LLM client with an OpenAI-compatible server API and optional chat UI.

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magpie

A local gateway and menu-bar app that puts every coding agent's model in one place — Claude Code on Kimi, Codex on DeepSeek — switching models per agent, reusing subscriptions everywhere, and failing over across accounts and providers.

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NeMo Switchyard

Rust proxy and library for LLM traffic that routes requests across providers and translates between OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.

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OmniRoute

A free MIT-licensed AI gateway that fronts 380 providers (150+ with free tiers) and 1,400+ models behind one endpoint for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, and Copilot, with quota-aware auto-fallback and stacked token compression.

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Plano

Plano is an open-source AI gateway and policy runtime for routing, securing, and observing production LLM/API traffic.

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Sub2API

A self-hosted gateway that converts Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok subscriptions into OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, with multi-account scheduling, token-level billing, and key distribution.

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Superagent

A secure proxy between apps, models and tools that enforces runtime protections and validates tool calls.

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TokenHub

TokenHub is a private enterprise AI gateway that unifies multi-provider model access behind OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs, with role-based workspaces for users, team leaders, and administrators.

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Unified AI System

An Apache-2.0 self-hosted AI gateway and MCP server that fronts OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini APIs with virtual keys, budgets, caching, guardrails, reverse MCP governance, and provider-free deterministic prompt enhancement.

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vLLM Semantic Router

An intelligent Mixture-of-Models router that directs requests to the most suitable models to improve inference accuracy and efficiency.

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