Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go

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TL;DR: Open-source Go LLM gateway competing with LiteLLM, emphasizing compiled-binary supply chain safety.

Key Takeaways

  • Unified API, semantic caching, load balancing across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others
  • Go binary eliminates runtime dependency attack surface present in Python-based LiteLLM
  • Biggest maintenance challenge: provider API schemas change constantly, requiring rapid updates

Discussion

  • Commenters noted bifrost as existing Go alternative — unclear differentiation not addressed
  • Supply chain safety argument for compiled Go resonated strongly with infrastructure developers

Top comments:

  • [crawdog]: Compiled Go binary hardens supply chain attacks that hit Python tools at runtime
  • [pizzafeelsright]: Sub-24hr new model integration turnaround is the real maintenance bar for these proxies
  • [mosselman]: Truly unified API must abstract temperature, reasoning effort, tool choice — none do yet

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