I Benchmarked Lynkr Against LiteLLM on the Same Backends.

I Benchmarked Lynkr Against LiteLLM on the Same Backends. Lynkr Was Cheaper for Tool-Heavy Workloads

Founder disclosure: I built Lynkr, so take this as a technical benchmark write-up, not a neutral industry report. The numbers below come from the same backend providers on both gateways.

If you're routing AI coding traffic through a gateway, just switching providers is not enough. The real savings come from reducing the tokens that ever reach the model in the first place.

I ran Lynkr and LiteLLM against the same backends — Ollama locally, Moonshot, and Azure OpenAI — across 9 scenarios. On the scenarios that actually look like agentic coding work, Lynkr was cheaper because it does three things before forwarding the request upstream: smart tool selection, TOON compression, and semantic caching.

The short version

I Benchmarked Lynkr Against LiteLLM on the Same Backends. Lynkr Was Cheaper for Tool-Heavy Workloads

Founder disclosure: I built Lynkr, so take this as a technical benchmark write-up, not a neutral industry report. The numbers below come from the same backend providers on both gateways.

If you're routing AI coding traffic through a gateway, just switching providers is not enough. The real savings come from reducing the tokens that ever reach the model in the first place.

The short version

I Benchmarked Lynkr Against LiteLLM on the Same Backends.

I Benchmarked Lynkr Against LiteLLM on the Same Backends.

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