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.

Ask me anything!

Hi
Jakub here, solo founder from Warsaw. I built GoModel and I'm launching it here very soon. Show HN hit #4 in April.
GoModel is an open-source AI gateway in Go. You can think of it like a self-hosted OpenRouter. It's one OpenAI-compatible API for every model provider, with budgets, caching, guardrails, load balancing, and failover.

In March LiteLLM shipped a compromised PyPI release. Then Portkey went to Palo Alto and TensorZero stopped operating. People are looking for more robust alternatives and GoModel is one of them.

If you use LiteLLM today or are considering an AI gateway for internal use - what would make you try GoModel in prod?
Cost, data privacy, compliance, user interface - or is hosted just easier and you'd never bother?

Follow the page for the launch ping. Happy to answer any question.

In March LiteLLM shipped a compromised PyPI release. Then Portkey went to Palo Alto and TensorZero stopped operating. People are looking for more robust alternatives and GoModel is one of them.

Follow the page for the launch ping. Happy to answer any question.

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