| What it does | Budget-first AI cost metering proxy for any stack
| Compress prompts and reduce LLM API costs while preserving answers
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| Stage | Startup
| Startup
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| Founded | 2025
| 2024
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| Based in | CA
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Free
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| Pricing | 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.
| Open beta: $0/month with unlimited API calls, all features, and no credit card required. After beta: a generous free tier and simple usage plans with early users keeping their perks.
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| Key features | - 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
| - Compress long prompts, logs and documents by removing filler while preserving code, numbers and facts
- Convert web pages to clean Markdown instead of raw HTML
- Shrink JSON responses into TOON format with headers and CSV-like rows
- Available as MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code
- Gateway integration for OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs
- REST API for direct integration
- Self-hosted or hosted gateway options
- Dashboard showing token and cost savings
- Works with any chat model including local models
- Output modes to control answer verbosity: lite, caveman and ultra
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| What makes it different | - 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
| - Rule-based compression takes milliseconds without using another LLM
- Your API key never leaves your infrastructure when using self-hosted gateway
- Streaming, tool calling and function calling work unchanged
- Real-world savings up to 42% on monthly LLM bills according to calculator
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 29 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | 2 ● no change since last check |
| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 5 | 3 |
| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 19 | 27 |
| Referring domains (Majestic) | 69 | 58 |