Show HN: Cascade – a simple unified CLI and endpoint for free-tier providers

Category: cli-tool

Tags: ai, cli-tool, api-gateway, free-tier, llm

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

Cascade is a dependency-free Python CLI and REST API that aggregates multiple free-tier AI model providers, automatically routing queries to the best available model and failing over on rate limits or quotas. It is interesting for its unified interface across ~18 providers, built-in benchmarking, and auto-discovery of models with minimal setup.

Target audience: backend devs, ai engineers, tinkerers

Repository: https://github.com/crnst8/cascade · Python

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