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AI Router

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Your keys. Your gateway. No vendor lock-in. AI Router is a native macOS app with OpenAI and Anthropic compatible endpoints. Bring your own API keys, connect to your chosen providers, and keep usage logs locally. 7-day free trial.

PH · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view

Niche: llm routing and gateway tools · 143 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -62% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence

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Could you build this?

Yes AI Router is essentially a local proxy server and desktop GUI that translates requests between standard LLM API formats (OpenAI/Anthropic) and logs requests locally.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 538 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #421 of 539 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.

  • anonrouter · ph · 2026-09-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • FastRouter.ai · ph · 2026-10-05 · 308 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Rapid Router · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • ai-routing · github · 2026-11-06 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • openrouter-alternatives · github · 2026-09-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • TrustedRouter · ph · 2026-09-01 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • openrouter-alternative · github · 2026-10-29 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Aurora · hn · 2026-08-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47

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