GoModel
an open-source AI gateway in Go
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Hi, I’m Jakub, a solo founder based in Warsaw.I’ve been building GoModel since December with a couple of contributors. It's an open-source AI gateway that sits between your app and model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic or others.I built it for my startup to solve a few problems: - track AI usage and cost per client or team - switch models without changing app code - debug request flows more easily - reduce AI spendings with exact and semantic caching How is it different? - ~17MB docker image - LiteLLM's image is more than 44x bigger ("docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:latest" ~ 746 MB on amd64) - request workflow is visible and easy to inspect - config is environment-variable-first by default I'm posting now partly because of the recent LiteLLM supply-chain attack. Their team handled it impressively well, but some people are looking at alternatives anyway, and GoModel is one.Website: https://gomodel.enterpilot.ioAny feedback is appreciated.
HN · launched Apr 21, 2026 · 217 upvotes (top 4%) · 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
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Could you build this?
Yes An AI reverse-proxy gateway in Go handling request routing, rate limiting, token tracking, and caching across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs is standard CRUD/networking infrastructure.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: LiteLLM, Bifrost, vLLM
Concerns raised: Keeping up with provider API updates and protocol changes, LiteLLM supply chain incident and threat mitigation, Integrating with video, audio, and image models, Properly benchmarking AI gateways with different feature sets, Integrating with cloud platforms, Prometheus, OAuth, Datadog, vaults, DLP software
Feature requests: Per-user quota limiting across thousands of end-users, Config to declare which fields are stable for caching, Upstream provider API change tracking automation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 276 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 277 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.
- We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model · hn · 2026-08-27 · 222 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Docker Model Runner Integrates vLLM for High-Throughput Inference · hn · 2025-11-20 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GuRouter · ph · 2026-10-03 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- LLM-Gateway · hn · 2026-03-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Aurora · hn · 2026-08-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- GoRoute · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Modelpeers · hn · 2026-11-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- litellm-gateway · github · 2026-10-04 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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