Wafer Pass
Hi HN, I’m Emilio. We’re launching the Wafer extension for the popular IDEs (VS Code, Cursor and Antigravity). Wafer exists to make performance engineers more efficient. Most of the work perf engs do is extracting signal and turning it into the next experiment. You spend hours per kernel doing interpretation and bookkeeping: which counters matter, what changed, what hypothesis you’re testing, what to try next. Wafer is building an environment where profiling, compiler analysis, and docs are first-class context in your workflow, so iteration is cheap. long-term, that same structured context…
Wafer Pass launched on April 15, 2026 with 116 votes, #324 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
We're launching Wafer Pass, a monthly subscription that gives you access to the fastest LLMs for use in personal agentic coding harnesses like OpenClaw, Claude Code, OpenCode, Cline, Kilo Code, with no per-token charges. The first 2 LLMs we're supporting is GLM5.1-Turbo and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-Turbo, two LLMs our team optimized from the original base models to 1.5-3x the speed SGLang/vLLM give you out of the box. More Turbo models coming soon, included with all plans.
The fastest inference for open models.
Wafer learns how your workload behaves and continuously optimizes the serving stack for better performance, reliability, and efficiency. “ [Wafer] has the lowest latency we’ve seen from any provider we’ve tried. And it doesn’t go off a cliff when you increase the requests per minute. ” [Wafer] has the lowest latency we’ve seen from any provider we’ve tried. And it doesn’t go off a cliff when you increase the requests per minute. ” The response times on wafer are fast enough that we were able to remove an entire speculative cache layer. This was a huge simplification in our stack and lowered our inference costs a ton! ” Wafer helped DigitalOcean make Kimi 2.5 11.33× faster on AMD—with zero…from wafer.ai
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, I’m Emilio. We’re launching the Wafer extension for the popular IDEs (VS Code, Cursor and Antigravity). Wafer exists to make performance engineers more efficient. Most of the work perf engs do is extracting signal and turning it into the next experiment. You spend hours per kernel doing interpretation and…
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