As an indie developer building AI products, I kept hitting the same wall: how do I control LLM...
As an indie developer building AI products, I kept hitting the same wall: how do I control LLM costs without vendor lock-in?
Direct API keys meant zero visibility into per-project spending. Month-end surprise bills. No way to cap costs per feature. Rate limit headaches.
So I built CostLLM — an OpenAI-compatible API gateway that sits between your code and the LLM provider.
What it does
Virtual API Keys — Create separate keys per project, environment, or team member
TL;DR If your SaaS product calls multiple LLM providers, the invoice from OpenAI,...
I was spending $200/month on AI APIs. Now it's $60. Same quality, different approach.
At some point in most of our production AI projects, someone looks at the monthly API bill and asks...
I built a single-file Python proxy that automatically routes LLM requests to the cheapest provider. DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenRouter…
An honest look at FreeLLMAPI — an open-source proxy that aggregates 14 free-tier AI providers into one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Our OpenAI bill tripled in 60 days. User growth was up 40%. Revenue was up. But the API bill was...
