Ollama for free cloud inference. Local OpenAI-compatible gateway routing across OpenRouter, Groq, NVIDIA NIM, Cloudflare Workers AI, HuggingFace, Cerebras, and your own Ollama with automatic failover.
In the AI & ML space, Free Ride takes a focused approach. It provides a unified, free gateway for AI inference with automatic failover across multiple providers and local models. It is built as an open-source project for developers needing flexible AI inference routing. Free Ride is open source under the MIT license. It runs on the web, the command line, and API, and it can be self-hosted.
Behind Free Ride is Shaivpidadi, and the product first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 30 stars and 180 commits in the last 90 days. PulseGate's similarity index finds few close equivalents — Free Ride occupies a relatively distinct niche. Key capabilities include OpenAI-compatible API, cloud inference routing, and automatic failover. It exposes integrations via a public API.
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