Inferock-bench is a local proxy that sits between your app and OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenRouter shaped calls. It captures per-call token usage, failures, and retries, then generates an independent receipt showing what you were billed and how much you're actually overpaying for.
The retry tracking caught my eye. silent retries are probably one of the easiest ways for API costs to creep up without anyone noticing.
@sansa_grey Right, retries are the sneakiest of the bunch: the answer still arrives, everything looks fine, and the bill just grows. Making those visible was one of the first things we wanted for ourselves.
Love that this sits as a local proxy instead of asking me to route traffic through another cloud service. Keeps my API keys and data where they belong.
@peter_victor everything stays on your machine, we never see it.
The retry tracking caught my attention. I’ve seen failed requests become surprisingly expensive, so being able to trace each call would be useful to me.
@rahul_manjhi1 Failed requests being the expensive ones is such a strange truth of this stuff, you pay and get nothing usable back. Hope it earns a spot in your setup!
changing the baseURL and apiKey instead of rewriting the application is a nice touch. makes this much easier to test on an existing project.
@upendra_kumar17 that was a rule we set for ourselves, if trying it takes more than a minute nobody will ever find out what their calls really cost. Two settings in, and your app never knows the difference. Would be curious how it goes on your existing project.
I like that Inferock Bench focuses on evidence rather than simply showing another dashboard. Having a separate record of every API call could make unexpected billing much easier to investigate.
@aarav_pittman thank you! Dashboards summarize, and summaries are where the weird stuff goes to hide. We wanted something closer to a paper trail, boring on purpose, there for the day you need to investigate.
The two setting setup makes this feel unusally easy to try.
@jordan_bulk thank you! Hopefully the receipts earn it the permanent spot.
Congrats on the launch of Inferock Bench.
Love the idea of having an independent receipt for every LLM API call. Transparent usage, billing, and overpayment tracking can be a huge win for teams working with multiple LLM providers.