Open-source AI gateway in Go. One OpenAI-compatible API for every provider, with budgets, caching, guardrails, load balancing, and failover. Single binary, ~20MB docker image MIT, bring your own keys. A self-hosted alternative to OpenRouter and LiteLLM.
I'm Jakub - a solo founder from Warsaw. This is my 1st Product Hunt launch.
The story behind GoModel is simple. In October last year I wanted to use an AI gateway for my startup. I noticed that the first solution of its kind - LiteLLM - has serious quality problems (500+ unexplainable issues in production) and a fundamental one - Python is not the right tool for proxy-like software. So I decided to write one.
That's how GoModel was born, and I've been working on it full-time since December 2025.
The part I would check first is failover. We run OpenRouter first with direct provider keys behind it and two of our models have no direct key at all, so the router is a single point of failure for those. Does self-hosting let me pin a fallback order per model?
A ~20MB single binary that's self-hosted and MIT licensed is a much easier sell to a team than routing everything through a third-party gateway with your API keys sitting on someone else's infra. How does failover behave when a provider is degraded but not fully down, like elevated latency rather than a hard error - does it wait for a timeout threshold or react to error rates too?
Oh the self hosted part is cool... how do you decide when GoModel should fail over to another model vs retrying the same provider?
About GoModel on Product Hunt
“Open-source OpenRouter”
GoModel launched on Product Hunt on September 9th, 2026 and earned 117 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Open-source AI gateway in Go. One OpenAI-compatible API for every provider, with budgets, caching, guardrails, load balancing, and failover. Single binary, ~20MB docker image MIT, bring your own keys. A self-hosted alternative to OpenRouter and LiteLLM.
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Jakub A. Wąsek
I'm Jakub - a solo founder from Warsaw. This is my 1st Product Hunt launch.
The story behind GoModel is simple. In October last year I wanted to use an AI gateway for my startup. I noticed that the first solution of its kind - LiteLLM - has serious quality problems (500+ unexplainable issues in production) and a fundamental one - Python is not the right tool for proxy-like software. So I decided to write one.
That's how GoModel was born, and I've been working on it full-time since December 2025.
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