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24 alternatives to ApiCredits

Leading LLM APIs for less than direct or aggregator billing

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    APIPark▲719

    Your open source AI gateway & API developer portal

    2024 · apipark.com · its alternatives →

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    LLM Gatewayfree tier▲296

    I built an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, vLLM, llama-server, SGLang... anything that speaks /v1/chat/completions. Single Go binary, one YAML config file, no infrastructure. It does the things you'd expect from this kind of gateway... semantic routing via a three-layer cascade (keyword heuristics, embedding similarity, LLM classifier) that picks the best model when clients omit the model field, weighted round-robin load balancing across local inference servers with health checks and failover. The part I think is most…

    2025 · llmgateway.io · its alternatives →

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    Use AI models without managing keys or billing

    Dec 2025 · docs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Sudo AI▲265

    Sudo — AI monetization infrastructure for developers 4 months ago, I kept running into the same problem building AI products: inference is expensive, subscriptions are blunt, and ads weren’t designed for generated content. So I started working on Sudo, an infrastructure layer that makes it easier to launch and monetize AI apps. ⸻ Key features (in beta now): • One API to route across top models (no vendor lock-in) • Real-time metering & billing (usage-based, subscriptions, or hybrid) • Optional AI-native ads — contextual, developer-defined, and personalized • Dashboard for tracking usage,…

    2025 · sudoapp.dev · its alternatives →

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    AiPrice▲96

    API for calculating OpenAI LLM tokens and pricing

    2023 · aiprice.dev · its alternatives →

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    Calculate and compare the cost of the latest LLM APIs

    2024 · docsbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Avoid OpenAI downtimes - one API for 30+ LLMs

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LLM Provider arbitrage to get the best performance for the $

    2025 · makehub.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services. Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure. "How can I track LLM spend per API key?" "Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?" "Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?" "Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I’ve always loved building frontend-only apps—those you can prototype over a weekend, host for free on GitHub Pages, and scale to millions of users. Unfortunately, AI-enabled apps complicate things, as exposing your OpenAI key to the world is obviously a no-go. This also means mobile developers often have to run their own servers. That’s why I built ServerlessAI, an API gateway that lets you securely call multiple AI providers directly from client side using OpenAI-compatible APIs. You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user…

    2024 · serverlessai.dev · its alternatives →

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    Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API

    2025 · ai-gateway.dev · its alternatives →

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    x402▲119

    Hi HN – excited to announce x402, initially developed by Coinbase (YC 12) x402 lets any HTTP API charge per request without issuing API keys or storing credit cards. Buyers (humans or AI agents) keep funds in their own wallet and dynamically discover compatible endpoints, call them as usual, and automatically pay a microtransaction in USDC or other tokens to settle. 90 second demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV-L2AfLhJg Problem: Every time we want to use a new API we have to: find the service online create a developer account, copy a secret key into env vars, pre-fund or…

    2025 · x402.org · its alternatives →

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    Access 1 billion tokens per month for free

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    One API. Lowest token prices.

    Jul 2026 · videorouter.sh · its alternatives →

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    api2ai parses OpenAPI Spec to generate an agent that can make API calls. For context, I recently need to explore a handful of API suites and thought LLMs can help expedite this process. After some digging, I found OpenAPI Specs are perfect fit for function calling. Based on a text prompt, api2ai can select the right endpoint and properly parse request params and make api calls. It also handles authentication, currently it supports basic auth, api keys, and bearer token schemes. The tool has helped me explore and see APIs in action without a deep dive into the docs or using postman. It’s open…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Defapi▲5

    Affordable AI APIs

    Jan 2026 · defapi.org · its alternatives →

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    One API Key. 45+ AI Models. 43x Cheaper Than OpenAI.

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    one Api for multi LLM provider

    Aug 2026 · apiclaw.biz · its alternatives →

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    Smarter AI Routing Starts Here.

    Jul 2026 · apipoints.dev · its alternatives →

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    Sell your idle API quota. Buy any LLM for less.

    May 2026 · jellynet.net · its alternatives →

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    Access to open source models with unlimited AI API calls

    Mar 2026 · endpointai.in · its alternatives →

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    OneMux▲10

    Low-cost, OpenAI-compatible API for multiple AI models

    Jul 2026 · onemux.net · its alternatives →

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    One Gateway to Powerful AI Models

    Jul 2026 · tokenhub.com · its alternatives →

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    One API key and endpoint for LLM developers

    Jun 2026 · tokenhub.sandboxclaw.com · its alternatives →

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