We got tired of fake Claude. So we built UnoRouter.
Outages every other week. Premium models silently swapped for cheap clones. We snapped, shipped our own router, and made it paranoid about both. Here is the launch story.
The cheap AI API market has two problems. Providers go down a lot, and some of them quietly forward your request to a weaker model while still charging you for the flagship. UnoRouter is built to fix both.
Stay online when providers don't
Cheap upstreams are cheap for a reason. They rate-limit, throttle, and drop connections under load. When one degrades, UnoRouter routes the same request to another healthy provider serving the same model, automatically. Your application doesn't see the outage. You don't rewrite your code. You just keep shipping.
Every model is the real model
Not every gateway serves what it advertises. Some forward premium model names to cheaper substitutes and hope you don't notice. UnoRouter validates authenticity on every model we list: we probe identity and behavior end to end, and if a provider lies, we cut them. When you call Claude, you get Claude. When you call GPT, you get GPT.
Works in the terminals you actually use
A model is only useful if it works in your tools. We test every model end to end for HTTP completion, streaming, and tool calling. Those three capabilities are what AI terminal harnesses depend on. If a model is in our catalog, it works in Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and any OpenAI-compatible client. No surprise 'streaming not supported' failures mid-session.
What's next
We ship weekly. Expect more models, tighter health signals driving smarter fallbacks, richer cost and latency dashboards, and deeper integrations with the terminals and IDEs you already live in.
Ready to try it? Grab an API key or browse the model catalog.
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