Stop burning credits in Codex CLI. In this video I connect OpenAI Codex to OmniRoute — a free, open-source, MIT-licensed local AI gateway that pools 290+ providers and 90+ free tiers behind one endpoint — and get it running end to end in about 7 minutes.
OmniRoute runs on your own machine (localhost:20128), auto-falls back when a provider hits its quota, and stacks RTK + Caveman compression to cut token usage dramatically. Point Codex at one base URL and you get Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek and hundreds more through a single config.