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GoModel

an open-source AI gateway in Go

Details

External ID
47849097
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
GoModel
Website domain
github.com
Launched
April 21, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
217
Upvotes percentile
0.9640102827763496
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

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.

Enrichment

Theme
lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Model & infra
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
open-source ai api gateway in go
Manually corrected
False

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

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Attention rank: #7 of 133 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.

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