OmniRoute (you may know it as OmniRouter) is a hugely popular MIT gateway built around one idea: never run out of free or subscription tokens while coding. GoModel is a gateway built around a different idea: a small, fast, auditable control plane your whole company routes through. Both are open source; they are not the same tool.
OmniRoute served all six workloads in the benchmark, which several better-known gateways did not. It is also, by a wide margin, the heaviest thing on the request path we have measured - and that is largely by design: it does a lot per request that a plain gateway never attempts. Measured numbers are from run 20260829-183422 (29 August 2026) of the reproducible benchmark: every gateway from its public Docker image, one at a time, same in-memory mock backend, same AWS c7i.large. Rerun it yourself with one command.
| Category | GoModel | OmniRoute |
|---|---|---|
| Measured on the hot path | ||
| Latency overhead (p50) | 2.35 ms | 186.63 ms |
| Latency tail (p99) | 8.80 ms | 456.23 ms |
| Streaming time to first token (p50) | 5.90 ms | 215.61 ms |
| Sustained throughput | 3,610 req/s | 53 req/s |
| Peak RAM under load | 42.7 MB | 936.1 MB |
| Efficiency (req/s per CPU %) | 36.5 | 0.4 |
| Cold start to first request | 0.58 s | 6.41 s |
| Docker image (compressed) | 14.4 MB | 1,182 MB |
| Workloads served | 6/6 workloads | 6/6 workloads |
| Beyond the benchmark | ||
| Built for | Teams and products: a shared gateway for apps and agents | Individual developers: stretch free tiers and subscriptions across coding tools |
| Runtime | One Go binary | Node.js / TypeScript, also Electron desktop and PWA |
| Provider coverage | 31 providers | 350+ providers, 150+ marked free |
| Subscription / OAuth account routing | API keys only | Pools of OAuth logins with fair-share quotas |
| Prompt compression | Deterministic, fails open - GoModel Pro | 12-engine pipeline, included |
| Anthropic Messages API | Native /v1/messages, streaming | Served |
| Virtual keys, budgets, rate limits | Included | Per-key spend limits and rate limits |
| Audit logs and usage tracking | Postgres / MongoDB / SQLite, dashboard | Local SQLite, dashboard |
| Storage | SQLite to Postgres or MongoDB, run replicas | SQLite in the container |
| Config | Env vars + optional YAML; reproducible deploys | Dashboard and database, seeded via management API |
| Guardrails | Request/response policies | Prompt-injection guards, optional PII redaction |
| Login / SSO | OIDC in GoModel Pro | OIDC login, included |
| License | MIT | MIT |
Benchmark: 20,000 requests per workload at concurrency 10, five randomized trials on an AWS c7i.large (2 vCPU, 4 GiB). Retries and request logs off everywhere. OmniRoute 3.8.50 ran with its default per-provider request queue disabled - at the default 60 requests per minute with a 350 ms minimum gap it would have serialized to about 3 req/s - and with token compression not triggered by the short mock prompts. Its numbers are those of the bare request path. OmniRoute's provider catalog and account-pool routing are real strengths; the benchmark measures overhead, not features.
A fair split: one is a personal AI cockpit, the other is infrastructure.
Benchmarks are an argument; your traffic is the proof. GoModel speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs natively, so pointing an existing app at it is a base-URL change.
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 \
-e LOG_FORMAT=text \
-e OPENAI_API_KEY="your-openai-key" \
enterpilot/gomodelfrom openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:8080/v1",
api_key="your-gomodel-key",
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