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9router

9Router CLI - Start and manage 9Router server

Published10 May 2026

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9Router - FREE AI Router & Token Saver

Never stop coding. Save 20-40% tokens with RTK + auto-fallback to FREE & cheap AI models.

Connect All AI Code Tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Copilot, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, Cline, OpenClaw...) to 40+ AI Providers & 100+ Models.

🌐 Website • 📖 Full Docs

🤔 Why 9Router?

Stop wasting money, tokens and hitting limits:

❌ Subscription quota expires unused every month
❌ Rate limits stop you mid-coding
❌ Tool outputs (git diff, grep, ls...) burn tokens fast
❌ Expensive APIs ($20-50/month per provider)

9Router solves this:

✅ RTK Token Saver - Auto-compress tool_result, save 20-40% tokens
✅ Maximize subscriptions - Track quota, use every bit before reset
✅ Auto fallback - Subscription → Cheap → Free, zero downtime
✅ Multi-account - Round-robin between accounts per provider
✅ Universal - Works with any OpenAI/Claude-compatible CLI

⚡ Quick Start

Option 1 — npm (recommended for desktop):

npm install -g 9router
9router

# Or run directly with npx
npx 9router

Option 2 — Docker (server/VPS):

docker run -d --name 9router -p 20128:20128 \
  -v "$HOME/.9router:/app/data" -e DATA_DIR=/app/data \
  decolua/9router:latest

Published images: Docker Hub • GHCR (multi-platform amd64/arm64).

🎉 Dashboard opens at http://localhost:20128

2. Connect a FREE provider (no signup needed):

Dashboard → Providers → Connect Kiro AI (free Claude unlimited) or OpenCode Free (no auth) → Done!

3. Use in your CLI tool:

Claude Code/Codex/OpenClaw/Cursor/Cline Settings:
  Endpoint: http://localhost:20128/v1
  API Key:  [copy from dashboard]
  Model:    kr/claude-sonnet-4.5

That's it! Start coding with FREE AI models.

🚀 CLI Options

9router                    # Start with default settings
9router --port 8080        # Custom port
9router --no-browser       # Don't open browser
9router --skip-update      # Skip auto-update check
9router --help             # Show all options

Dashboard: http://localhost:20128/dashboard

🔌 Connect to a Remote 9Router

Already running 9Router on another machine (e.g. a team server on your LAN)? Point this machine's CLI tools at it — no local server is started:

npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128                       # pick tools interactively
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools claude,codex  # or choose up front
npx 9router connect --reset --tools claude,codex                     # undo

It logs in with the dashboard password (hidden prompt), reuses or creates an API key named cli-<hostname>, and writes each tool's config (backing up the original once as *.bak-9router).

Supported tools: claude, codex, opencode, droid, crush, kilo, cline, pi, omp, or all.

Models

Models come from the server's own CLI-tools configuration, so a client gets whatever the operator already picked on the dashboard. Nothing is hardcoded.

Tool	Model taken from (first match wins)
`claude`	tier flag (`--opus` …) → server's Claude tier → left unset (Claude Code's own default)
others	`--model` → that tool's own model on the server → server's OpenCode model → tool skipped

kilo has no readable model on the server, so it always uses --model or the OpenCode model. omp (Oh My Pi) needs no model: it uses proxy discovery, so every server model appears under 9router in /model. A Claude tier the server doesn't set is removed from your config rather than kept from an earlier run. A skipped tool makes the command exit 1.

Overriding the server's models

# One Claude tier; the other tiers still come from the server
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools claude --sonnet cc/claude-sonnet-5-5

# Every Claude tier
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools claude \
  --fable cc/claude-fable-5-1 --opus cc/claude-opus-5-5 \
  --sonnet cc/claude-sonnet-5-5 --haiku cc/claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

# All non-Claude tools at once
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools codex,opencode,kilo --model ocg/deepseek-flash

# Claude and other tools in one run
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools claude,codex --opus cc/claude-opus-5-5 --model gpt-6

# A different model per tool: --model covers every non-Claude tool in a run, so run once per tool
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools codex --model gpt-6
npx 9router connect http://<server-host>:20128 --tools opencode --model ocg/glm-5.3

A model the server doesn't list is still written, with a not listed by server warning. To see the ids it serves: curl http://<server-host>:20128/v1/models -H "Authorization: Bearer <your key>".

Checking the current config

9router show prints what each CLI tool on this machine is currently set to — base URL, masked API key and models. It only reads local files and never contacts a server.

npx 9router show                 # every supported tool
npx 9router show claude          # one tool
npx 9router show claude codex    # several
npx 9router show claude --json   # machine-readable (key still masked)

✅ Claude Code
   File:     ~/.claude/settings.json
   Base URL: http://<server-host>:20128/v1
   API key:  sk-a1b…9f3c
   Models:
     fable   cc/claude-fable-5-1
     opus    cc/claude-opus-5-5
     sonnet  cc/claude-sonnet-5-5

Tools not pointed at 9router are listed as not configured. For Codex, OpenCode and Cline it also warns when a 9router entry exists but another provider is the active one.

Other options

Option	Purpose
`--password <pw>`	Dashboard password (or `NINE_ROUTER_PASSWORD`); prompted if omitted — preferred, keeps it out of shell history
`--save`	After a successful login, save the password for this server to `~/.9router/connect.env` (plain text, mode 600) so later runs skip the prompt. Delete the file to forget it
`--api-key <key>`	Use this key and skip login. The server's models can't be read without a login, so pass model flags
`--key-name <name>`	API key name to reuse/create (default `cli-<hostname>`)
`--print-env`	Also print `OPENAI_BASE_URL` / `OPENAI_API_KEY` for other CLIs
`--reset`	Remove the 9router settings from the selected tools

See 9router connect --help for the full list.

⚠️ Over plain http:// the password and API key are sent unencrypted — use a trusted LAN/VPN or put HTTPS in front. The API key is stored in each tool's config file.

🛠️ Supported CLI Tools

Claude-Code • OpenClaw • Codex • OpenCode • Cursor • Antigravity • Cline • Continue • Droid • Roo • Copilot • Kilo Code • Gemini CLI • Qwen Code • iFlow • Crush • Crusher • Aider

Any tool supporting OpenAI/Claude-compatible API works.

💾 Data Location

macOS/Linux: ~/.9router/db/data.sqlite
Windows: %APPDATA%/9router/db/data.sqlite
Docker: /app/data/db/data.sqlite (mount $HOME/.9router to persist)

📚 Documentation

Full docs, advanced setup, video tutorials & development guide:

GitHub: https://github.com/decolua/9router
Full README: https://github.com/decolua/9router/blob/master/README.md
Website: https://9router.com

🙏 Acknowledgments

CLIProxyAPI - Original Go implementation

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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