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24 alternatives to We benchmarked 18 LLMs on OCR (7K+ calls) – cheaper models win

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    LLM Stats▲293

    I was overspending on GPT-4o. It was really hard to compare different models I could switch to, so I built this LLM comparison tool. It shows leaderboards, pricing, and performance data across 100+ LLMs (including all major providers and open-source models). Key features: - Live pricing comparisons - Benchmark Scores (MMLU, HumanEval, GPQA, etc.) - Context length vs cost analysis - Speed/throughput tests across providers - Quality vs price visualizations - Open source (all data verifiable) Try it out: https://llmstats.com I'd like to know your opinion :) Tech stack: Next.js,…

    Oct 2025 · llm-stats.com · its alternatives →

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    An open benchmark for AI agents that test APIs

    May 2026 · resources.kusho.ai · its alternatives →

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    all-in-one LLM evaluation platform

    2024 · confident-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    Test-driven development for LLMs

    2023 · benchllm.com · its alternatives →

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    Your site scores X/100 for AI agents with next steps

    May 2026 · indexedai.tech · its alternatives →

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    I have been working in AI space for a while now, first at FAANG with ML since 2021, then with LLM in start-ups since early 2023. I think LLM Application development is extremely iterative, more so than any other types of development. This is because to improve an LLM application performance (accuracy, hallucinations, latency, cost), you need to try various combinations of LLM models, prompt templates (e.g., few-shot, chain-of-thought), prompt context with different RAG architecture, different agent architecture, and more. There are thousands of possible combinations and you need a process…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7IS

    Hey HN! For that last 8 months I've been trying to make agents that can hack web applications to find vulnerabilities in them - An AI Security Tester. The system has 29 agents in total, a custom LLM Orchestration framework which works on the task-subtask architecture (old-school but works amazingly for my use case, and is pretty reliable) with custom agent calling mechanism. No Auo-Gen, Langchain and Crew AI - Everything custom built for pentesting. Each test runs in an isolated Kali linux environment (on AWS Fargate), where the agents have full access to the environment to undertake any…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    GROOVY▲73

    Universal Search and Signaling across LLMs

    Jan 2026 · gogroovy.ai · its alternatives →

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    AnyLLM▲20

    10+ LLMs at 10x speed. Think we're kidding. Test it now!

    2025 · its alternatives →

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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 · its alternatives →

  11. 11AA

    I'm a solo dev in Taiwan. I built 4 AI agents that handle content, sales leads, security scanning, and ops for my tech agency — all on Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier (1,500 req&#x2F;day). I use ~105. Monthly LLM cost: $0. Architecture: 4 agents on OpenClaw (open source), running on WSL2 at home with 25 systemd timers. What they do every day: - Generate 8 social posts across platforms (quality-gated: generate → self-review → rewrite if score < 7&#x2F;10) - Engage with community posts and auto-reply to comments (context-aware, max 2 rounds) - Research via RSS + HN API + Jina Reader → feed…

    Mar 2026 · its alternatives →

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    The LLM Evaluation Framework. Contribute to confident-ai/deepeval development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13OS

    Hello HN, I’ve been building AI agents lately and ran into a common "Context Bloat" problem. When an agent has 20+ skills, stuffing every system prompt, reference doc, and tool definition into a single request quickly hits token limits and degrades model performance (the "lost in the middle" problem). To solve this, I built OpenSkills, an open-source SDK that implements a Progressive Disclosure Architecture for agent skills. The Core Concept: Instead of loading everything upfront, OpenSkills splits a skill into three layers: Layer 1 (Metadata): Light-weight tags and triggers (always loaded…

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    An AI Cost Optimization Infrastructure for LLM Applications

    Mar 2026 · getpromptly.in · its alternatives →

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    Compare 64+ LLM models in one place

    2024 · anotherwrapper.com · its alternatives →

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    Faster, better AI content with a human touch

    2024 · copyreadynow.com · its alternatives →

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    Benchmark AI models for YOUR use case

    Jan 2026 · openmark.ai · its alternatives →

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    hello everyone, my first post! AA here, founder of ⌘ Langbase.com — we are a developer platform for building and scaling serverless AI memory agents. I know surveys can be boring, but this one’s different—it’s interactive! That's very much intentional. My team and I have been up for the last 21 hours putting together this report. This was a looot of work, so I hope y'all like it. Introducing … State of AI Agents 2024 report On Langbase, we processed 184 billion tokens and handled 786 million AI agent runs from 36K developers. From all that data plus insights from 3.4K builders who filled out…

    2024 · langbase.com · its alternatives →

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    I recently submitted another project for using LLMs to correct errors and improve formatting of OCRed documents which was well received. The low cost and high quality&#x2F;speed of the latest "value tier" models from OpenAI and Anthropic have made it possible to get compelling results at a very reasonable price in that application. It occured to me that the same approach taken there (namely, splitting documents into chunks and sending each chunk through a chain of LLM prompts that each take the output of the previous prompt and apply an additional layer of processing) could be easily applied…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI made free

    Dec 2025 · theoldllm.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  21. 21ΤB

    τ-Bench is an open benchmark for evaluating AI agents on grounded, multi-turn customer service tasks with verifiable outcomes. It's been great to see the community adopt it since launch — this is now the third iteration. With τ³-Bench, we're extending it to two new settings: knowledge-intensive retrieval and full-duplex voice. τ-Knowledge: agents must navigate ~700 interconnected policy documents to complete multi-step tasks. Best frontier model (GPT-5.2, high reasoning) hits ~25%. The surprising part: even when you hand the model the exact documents it needs, performance only reaches ~40%.…

    Mar 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Agent-aware LLM cost tracking for small teams.

    Jun 2026 · agentgate-theta.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  23. 23IB

    I built a tool to roast landing pages with AI agents. I was gathering feedback from watching landing page roast videos, and figured out I could prompt LLMs to analyse a screenshot and roast based on the same criteria. It's not 100% accurate yet, but it has been really insightful when I've tested it on my own websites. Let me know what you think!

    2024 · roastmylandingpage.io · its alternatives →

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    I trained the 65b model on my texts so I can talk to myself. It's pretty useless as an assistant, and will only do stuff you convince it to, but I guess it's technically uncensored? I'll leave it up for a bit if you want to chat with it. I posted this to Reddit and had several hundred people talking to it. Salient points from that discussion: LLAMA 1 65b Rank 128 5 epochs Batch size 1, 256 cutoff Trained in the Oobabooga suite using bitsandbytes 4-bit quantization for the lora Loss around 1.5 seems to give the most coherent results Trained on raw text dumps that is then parsed by a crappy…

    2023 · airic.serveo.net · its alternatives →

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