Zerg Router
Run DeepSeek in Codex
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One OpenAI-compatible endpoint for all your coding agents. The routing policy lives in your account, not inside each tool. • Run DeepSeek 4.1 Flash (or other models) inside Codex, and keep your workflow • Give every API key its own daily budget, enforced per request • Explicit fallbacks: on a 5xx, 429 or timeout, try your next model • See remaining weekly quota and reset dates across Codex accounts Supports paid usage, or bring your own provider keys.
PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 77 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: ai api gateways and proxies · 336 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- API
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Yes Building an OpenAI-compatible reverse proxy with rate limiting, per-key budgets, and upstream fallback routing is a standard weekend project easily handled via Node.js or Go with an AI assistant.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 284 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
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- iwant · ph · 2026-10-09 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance · hn · 2026-09-30 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor · hn · 2026-06-26 · 216 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Qoren · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- openrouter-alternative · github · 2026-10-29 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OpenAI Agents API · ph · 2026-09-15 · 143 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TokenExpress · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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