Fireship names the five open-source tools that replaced a $320/month AI stack
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The 2026-09-07 video (763k views in under 24 hours) walks through Ollama, 9router, Headroom, Diffy and OpenHands as a token-cost-cutting substitute for paid subscriptions. It is a useful read on what the mainstream dev audience is actually being pointed at right now, and 9router and Headroom in particular are routing/context tools rather than model runners, which is where the cost actually lives.