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    Access 1 billion tokens per month for free

    Apr 2026 · github.com

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    Tokenwise143

    A smart LLM proxy that shows where you're overpaying

    Jun 2026 · tokenwisehq.com

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    The LLM providers are constantly adding new models and updating their API prices. Anyone building AI applications knows that these prices are very important to their bottom line. The only place I am aware of is going to these provider's individual website pages to check the price per token. To solve this inconvenience I spent a few hours making pricepertoken.com which has the latest model's up-to-date prices all in one place. Thinking about adding image models too especially since you have multiple options (fal, replicate) to use the same model and the prices are not always the same.

    2025 · pricepertoken.com

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    An independent receipt for every LLM API call

    23d ago · github.com

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    Running DeepSeek V3 (685B) requires 8×H100 GPUs which is about $14k/month. Most developers only need 15-25 tok/s. sllm lets you join a cohort of developers sharing a dedicated node. You reserve a spot with your card, and nobody is charged until the cohort fills. Prices start at $5/mo for smaller models. The LLMs are completely private (we don't log any traffic). The API is OpenAI-compatible (we run vLLM), so you just swap the base URL. Currently offering a few models.

    Apr 2026 · sllm.cloud

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    Calculate and compare the cost of the latest LLM APIs

    2024

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    I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens/sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…

    2025 · llmapitest.com

  8. 8OS

    Looking for the cheapest place to deploy llama 3.1 model? Don't worry we have found it so you don't have to.

    2024 · github.com

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    See your LLM token bill before you hit send.

    2025

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    AiPrice96

    API for calculating OpenAI LLM tokens and pricing

    2023

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    Track AI CLI spending across Claude, Codex & Gemini in 40ms

    Feb 2026 · github.com

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    Know which commit blew up your LLM bill

    May 2026 · github.com

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    I started leaning in on AI heavily this year, as I wanted to get more done autonomously, but then my token usage climbed dramatically to the point where my weekly quota would run out before the end of the week, sometimes a couple of days into the week. I realised I had to do something about it else I'd have to double my spend. So I decided to start tracking my cost per task type. This revealed that a lot of my spend went to searches/scans or simple things like scouting tasks. I then decided to turn this into a simple CLI tool that can be used to read your OpenAI-style logs locally, and…

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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    A privacy-first optimization layer for LLM costs.

    Apr 2026

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    An AI Cost Optimization Infrastructure for LLM Applications

    Mar 2026 · getpromptly.in

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    Cuts your LLM API costs by 40-70%. One line of code.

    May 2026 · semanticguard.dev

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    Hi HN, I was once given the advice: Don't waste expensive frontier model credits (GPT/Claude/etc.) on bulk work. Send the boring, repetitive, high-volume jobs to a smaller model, and save the expensive prompts for when you actually need frontier-level reasoning. I complained and told my manager that I shouldnt have to think about using certain models for certain coding tasks, and that one model should handle everything. Well, here we are anyway. If anyone needs a place to absolutely abuse an LLM with high-volume tasks, come beat ours up at https://yolo-auto.com. Here are…

    Jul 2026 · yolo-auto.com

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    Monitor every LLM API call and cost in real time

    Mar 2026 · aicostguard.com

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    Hi HN, we're Kiran and Vijay! Over the past two years, we have built a columnar storage engine for observability: logs, metrics, and traces. Today, it's exciting for us to show what we've built on top of that foundation: LLM Agent Observability. Given how non-deterministic agents are, storing all traces without sampling was critical for us. But these traces tend to be in the MBs, sometimes GBs - we needed to store them inexpensively. We also needed the queries and analyses to be fast. To meet both these goals, we store them in S3 in our own parquet-like file format, and query them using AWS…

    Jul 2026 · oodle.ai

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    Hey HN! After struggling with complex prompt engineering and unreliable parsing, we built L1M, a simple API that lets you extract structured data from unstructured text and images. curl -X POST https://api.l1m.io/structured \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "X-Provider-Url: demo" \ -H "X-Provider-Key: demo" \ -H "X-Provider-Model: demo" \ -d '{ "input": "A particularly severe crisis in 1907 led Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act in 1913", "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "items": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "properties": {…

    2025 · l1m.io

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    Cut LLM Costs 30-80% 2-Minute Setup.

    Dec 2025 · costbase.ai

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    Live pricing for 309+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek) plus real-world cost calculators: chatbots, API budgets, and token math. Updated 2026-09-06.

    Aug 2026 · costperprompt.com

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    Hi HN, Erik here. Today we launch Butter, an OpenAI-compatible API proxy that caches LLM generations and serves them deterministically on revisit. Since April, we’ve been working on this concept of “muscle memory,” or deterministic replay, for agent systems performing automations. You may recall our first post in May, launching a python package called Muscle Mem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988381 Since then, the product has evolved entirely, now taking the form of an LLM Proxy. For a deep dive into this process, check out:…

    Oct 2025 · docs.butter.dev

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