Frugal Relay

One API for GPT & Claude at 10% of official prices

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One API for GPT & Claude at 10% of official prices

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Frugal Relay is a pay-as-you-go AI API gateway for developers. Access GPT and Claude models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or use the root URL with Claude Code. Keep your existing SDK and workflow while reducing API costs to 10% of official OpenAI and Anthropic list prices. Includes transparent usage analytics, API key controls, and automatic routing across providers.

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Launch tags:API•Developer Tools•Artificial Intelligence

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Hi Product Hunt — I’m the maker of Frugal Relay. I built it after seeing developers repeatedly face the same trade-off: use the best GPT and Claude models, or keep API costs predictable. Switching providers, rewriting integrations, and maintaining separate billing accounts made that even more painful. Frugal Relay provides one OpenAI-compatible API for GPT and Claude models, so existing clients and tools can keep working with minimal configuration changes. For Claude Code, you can use the root service URL directly. The core idea is straightforward: premium AI APIs should be accessible to developers without turning every experiment, side project, or production workload into a major expense. Pricing is set at 10% of the corresponding official OpenAI and Anthropic API list prices, with pay-as-you-go billing. I’d especially value feedback on: • the models you would want available • SDKs or tools that should be easier to configure • the API gateway features that matter most in production Thanks for taking a look — happy to answer questions here.

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2mo ago

The 10x cost reduction is wild if the latency holds up in real apps. One thing that would seal the deal for me is per-route spend caps, like set a monthly ceiling per API key and get an email or webhook when you hit 80 percent. Right now it sounds like you have the analytics but not the guardrails to actually prevent a runaway script from burning through the budget overnight.

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2mo ago

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@berivan225074 We do support that today: set a monthly spend cap per API key, get email or webhook alerts at thresholds such as 80%, and enforce a hard stop at the cap. The goal is exactly to catch a runaway script before it turns into an overnight surprise bill.

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2mo ago

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2mo ago

What would make you switch to a lower-cost AI API gateway?

I m launching Frugal Relay tomorrow and would value feedback from developers and technical creators.

The problem I m trying to solve is simple: many teams want to use GPT and Claude models, but official API pricing, provider-specific integrations, and separate billing setups make experimentation and production costs harder to manage.

Frugal Relay takes the OpenAI-compatible gateway approach: one API for GPT and Claude models, with minimal client-side configuration changes.

Before launch, I d love to understand:

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