9Router Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy 9Router hosting and point Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline and your other AI tools at one gateway on your own domain instead of localhost on a single laptop. xCloud runs the pinned 9Router 0.5.40 container, publishes it over HTTPS, generates the initial password and keeps your providers, API keys and combos on a persistent volume.

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What is 9Router?

9Router is an open-source, MIT-licensed AI router. It sits between your AI coding tools and the model providers you use, exposes one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, translates between provider API formats and falls back through the combos you define when a quota or rate limit stops one provider.

By default it listens on localhost on the machine it runs on. On xCloud it runs as one container behind HTTPS on your own domain, so every machine on your team can use the same gateway.

From Sign-Up to Your First Routed Request In Just 3 Easy Steps

A 9Router setup normally means a container, a data volume, a reverse proxy, a domain, a certificate and a set of secrets before a tool can reach it. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick 9Router from the OneClick catalog and choose your domain and target server. There are no extra install fields.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official 9Router container, pinned by immutable digest, with no database service to run alongside it, mount the 9router_data volume for its SQLite database, generate the initial password and the JWT, API-key and machine-ID secrets, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Connect Your First Provider
Save the initial password from your installation credentials, sign in and change it. Then connect a provider, create an API key and point your AI tool at https://your-domain/v1 with that key.

Everything 9Router Does, On Your Own Server

9Router runs in full here: one gateway for every AI tool you use, with its configuration on a volume you control.

One OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint
Point Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline or OpenCode at a single /v1 URL on your domain and let the gateway decide which provider answers.
Fallback Combos
Group models under one name and fall back in order, for example from a subscription to a cheaper model to a free one when a quota or rate limit is hit.
Multiple Accounts And Formats
Connect several accounts per provider, translate between OpenAI, Claude and Gemini style APIs, and let 9Router refresh OAuth tokens for you.
Quota Tracking And Usage
See how much of each subscription you have used and review usage analytics in the dashboard.
Token Savers
RTK compresses tool output before it reaches the model, with optional Caveman and Ponytail prompt modes.
API Key Protection
Gateway requests need a 9Router API key, and admin and API endpoints return 401 without a login.

Everything You Need To Run Your AI Gateway 24/7

Managed hosting for 9Router, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

9Router 0.5.40 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Providers, keys and combos on a persistent volume
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With 9Router

Share one gateway across a team
Give every developer the same HTTPS endpoint and a 9Router API key instead of a localhost address that only works on one laptop.
Keep coding when a quota runs out
Define a combo that falls back from a subscription to a cheaper model and then a free one, so a rate limit does not stop your tools.
Use several accounts as one
Connect more than one account per provider and let the router spread requests across them.
Trim what your tools send
Turn on the token savers to compress tool output before it reaches the model, and watch usage in the dashboard.

9Router vs Alternatives

OpenRouter: A hosted service that fronts many models behind one API; 9Router runs on your own server and routes across the provider accounts you connect yourself.
LiteLLM: Another self-hosted LLM proxy; 9Router is built around fallback combos, OAuth-connected subscriptions and token savers for AI coding tools, in a single container.
Provider keys in each tool: Pasting a separate key into every tool works until a quota runs out; 9Router keeps the providers and fallbacks in one place that all tools share.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for 9Router hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if 9Router shares the server with other self-hosted apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. 9Router itself is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Run Your Own AI Gateway?

9Router on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What does 9Router do that a single provider API key doesn't?

It sits in front of many providers and accounts, translates between API formats and falls back through the combos you define, so a rate limit or exhausted quota on one provider does not stop your tools.

How do I sign in the first time?

Use the initial password from the protected installation credentials in xCloud, then change it inside 9Router. Upstream's default password is not accepted on xCloud, and 9Router does not force the change, so do it right after your first sign-in.

How do my AI tools connect to it?

Create an API key in the 9Router dashboard and set your tool's OpenAI-compatible endpoint to https://your-domain/v1 with that key. A request with a bad bearer token is rejected with 401.

Does 9Router include model access?

No. 9Router routes to providers and accounts that you connect yourself. Their usage and costs stay with those providers.

What runs alongside 9Router?

Nothing. It is a single container with its own SQLite database. The optional Headroom compression service is not enabled.

What should I back up?

The 9router_data volume as one unit, together with the generated JWT_SECRET, API_KEY_SECRET and MACHINE_ID_SALT values. The volume also holds 9Router's own database backups under /app/data/db/backups/.

Backups in xCloud

Can I change the generated secrets?

You can, in the site's Environment editor with Save & Redeploy, but changing JWT_SECRET, API_KEY_SECRET or MACHINE_ID_SALT can invalidate existing sessions or API keys. Back up the volume first.

Which optional settings are available?

The environment file lists commented-out settings for a public BASE_URL for OIDC, the secure-cookie flag, request logging, an outbound HTTP or SOCKS proxy, SearXNG web search and a Headroom URL. Set them and Save & Redeploy.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update 9Router?

No. The template pins 9Router 0.5.40 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up the 9router_data volume first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 4 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 64 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which leaves generous headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with 9Router?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the 9Router project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source 9Router project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.