Free-Way v0.1.0

First public usable release of Free-Way, a local BYOK gateway for routing free-tier LLM APIs behind OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints.

Highlights

• Local OpenAI-compatible API:
  • GET /v1/models
  • POST /v1/chat/completions
• Anthropic-compatible Messages API:
  • POST /v1/messages
  • POST /v1/messages/count_tokens
• Provider fallback routing for compatible models
• Runtime provider key management through the local web console
• Provider health checks and model catalog refresh
• Usage tracking for streaming and non-streaming requests
• Local web console at http://localhost:8787
• Tracks changing free-tier routes, model availability, and provider compatibility quirks

Supported Providers

OpenRouter, Groq, GitHub Models, Cloudflare, SiliconFlow, Cerebras, Mistral, Cohere, NVIDIA NIM, LLM7, Kilo, Zhipu, OpenCode, and ZenMux.

Works With

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Continue.dev
• OpenCode
• OpenAI-compatible clients
• Anthropic-compatible clients

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/GoDiao/Free-Way.git
cd Free-Way
npm install
npm run build
npm start

Open http://localhost:8787 and configure your provider keys.

Verification

This release was verified with:

npm run build
npm run test:usage

Notes

Free-Way does not provide free API access or hosted proxy capacity. Bring your own provider keys. Free-tier limits and model availability are controlled by each provider and may change over time.