| What it does | The API between AI agents and silicon
| Budget-first AI cost metering proxy for any stack
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| Stage | Not given
| Startup
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| Founded | 2023
| 2025
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| Based in | DE
| CA
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Freemium
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| Pricing | Free tier: 1,000 credits per day, resets every 24 hours. Pay-as-you-do: €10 per 1,000 credits. Enterprise: Custom pricing with volume commit, on-prem, and SLAs.
| Free: $0/month with 100 API calls/month, 1 seat, basic analytics, 30-day retention. Pro: $49/month with unlimited API calls, 5 seats, full analytics, hard spending caps, 90-day retention.
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| Key features | - Compile firmware against production toolchains remotely without installation
- Execute firmware on virtual chip instances with verdict, trace, and register state
- Unit and integration testing on virtual hardware with coverage reports
- Inject synthetic sensor data into running firmware
- Query collective embedded corpus for chip-specific solutions
- Support for Rust, C, and multiple RTOS frameworks
| - Real-time cost tracking with per-model and per-tag breakdowns
- Budget alerts via email, Slack, or Teams at configurable thresholds
- Hard spending caps that block requests with 429 response
- Rate limiting with sliding window per API key
- Support for 9 LLM providers and 60+ models
- Analytics dashboard with daily spend charts and latency metrics
- Works with any programming language via HTTP proxy
- AES-256 encryption for provider API keys with BYOK model
- 90-day data retention on Pro plan
- Tag-based cost attribution by team, feature, or customer
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| What makes it different | - Virtual instances of actual target chips, not generic CPU emulation, with same binary, peripherals, and interrupt timing as physical boards
- Shared corpus that deepens with every call, allowing agents to inherit knowledge from previous runs
- Eliminates need for physical hardware for testing, porting, and debugging
- Single MCP endpoint exposes cross-compilation, peripheral simulation, sensor IO, and chip-specific plumbing
- Access to licensed toolchains on demand without local installation
| - Minimal 31ms proxy overhead, only 3.6% latency impact on typical calls
- No SDKs required, works with any HTTP client out of the box
- Never stores prompts or completions, only billing metadata
- Hard spending caps enforced by Redis to prevent overspend
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 29 ● no change since last check | 28 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 5 | 5 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 27 | 19 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 117 | 69 |
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