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

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TL;DR

GoModel is a lightweight Go LLM gateway with semantic caching and multi-provider routing, alternative to LiteLLM.

Key Takeaways

  • Compiled Go binary gives compile-time supply-chain safety vs Python runtime dependency risk
  • Supports semantic caching and multi-provider failover; vault and cost-tracking on roadmap
  • Keeping up with provider API changes is the dominant long-term maintenance challenge

Discussion

Top comments:

  • [nzoschke]: All-in on Go for AI; adds GoModel to existing stack alongside shelley and gai
  • [pizzafeelsright]: Less than 24-hour turnaround on new model integration is the maintenance bar to clear
  • [crawdog]: Built a similar Go gateway; compiled binary limits supply chain attacks vs Python tools
  • [Talderigi]: Asks how semantic cache invalidation works when the underlying model version changes

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