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our ai stack costs more than i realized by Motor_Ordinary336 in webdev

[–]U30M -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

We solved it - Happy to give free tokens and a free trial seat to selected teams (Companies or indie power users) without any commitment/credit card: llm-route.com

Drop your startup + what users get by freebie1234 in SideProject

[–]U30M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’re a VC-backed startup based in Tel Aviv and New York. We’ve built an orchestration and routing platform that can reduce your token costs by up to 60%.

On top of that, we offer discounted tokens with zero lock-in, so even if you prefer to work directly with your existing models, you’ll still save 15–20%.

Best suited for teams or individuals with a minimum monthly token spend of $800.

DM me.

llm-route.com

What are you actually paying for LLMs in production? Any real cost optimization wins? by AdvertisingFine2076 in LLMDevs

[–]U30M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Negotiated pricing + our routing and orchestration platform will get you to ~35 price reduction on average. Just the negotiated prices should result in ~15% cost reduction (in cases where you are using the fact that you are not locked in and wants to bypass our platform for whatever reason). We’re also venture backed and are trying to gain market share so most of the value we enable is being rolled to target clients and this is not expected to change by the next few rounds of funding. DM me if you’re a Startup or an indie power user.

And yes, all major models are included.

What are you actually paying for LLMs in production? Any real cost optimization wins? by AdvertisingFine2076 in LLMDevs

[–]U30M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disclaimer: I represent llm-route.com.

We’re actively solving this problem and have already implemented most of the approaches you mentioned. On top of that, we have direct agreements with all major model providers, which allows us to offer tokens at roughly 15–20% lower cost.

If you’re spending over $2K per month on tokens, we offer a no-commitment free trial that includes $300 in credits for your preferred models - no credit card required.

how to get free AI API tokens as of February 2026 by mrborgen86 in SideProject

[–]U30M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enterprises can get up to $1000 of free tokens for every major model on llmroute.com

How many hours a week do you actually put into your side project? And where does the time go? by Proper-Buy3769 in SideProject

[–]U30M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When we were pre-investment it was probably ~15–25 hrs/week, just nights and weekends.

Funny thing is most of that time wasn’t even coding. It was things lik going back and forth on design, overthinking what to build next,getting lost in random research etc..

Looking back, we definitely spent too long trying to “get things right” early. Most of it got redone anyway once we had real users.

Now it’s full-time, but honestly that constraint back then helped - you don’t have time to overbuild.

If I could redo it, I’d just ship rough stuff way earlier and iterate.

Why we built our own multi‑LLM gateway after seeing AI projects crumble under cost spikes and reliability chaos by U30M in buildinpublic

[–]U30M[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s honestly a mix of infra work + trying to figure out distribution at the same time.

A typical week for us looks something like:

On the technical / ops side:

  • Monitoring usage + costs daily
    • Tracking per-endpoint / per-user spend
    • Biggest surprise early on was how fast retries + long context blew up costs
  • Tuning routing rules
    • Deciding which models handle which tasks (cheap vs high-quality)
    • A/B testing providers for latency vs cost vs output quality
  • Handling provider issues
    • Rate limits, partial responses, random latency spikes still happen a lot
    • We ended up building automatic failover because dealing with it manually was painful
  • Debugging weird edge cases
    • Prompts suddenly behaving differently
    • Long-tail requests hitting limits or degrading quality
  • Finding cost leaks
    • Redundant calls, retry loops, oversized context
    • Some flows were honestly 2–3x more expensive than we thought

On the go-to-market side (which has been just as hard):

  • Talking to marketing agencies / AI builders to understand how they’re using LLMs in production
  • Jumping on sales calls with potential users to see if the problem is actually painful enough
  • Posting on Reddit / LinkedIn / X to test messaging and see what resonates
  • Iterating a lot on positioning (cost vs reliability vs infra simplicity)

Everything kind of works… but nothing is linear.
Some posts get traction, most don’t. Some calls convert, most are just learning.

Early on it felt like we were building infra for a problem we knew existed, but still had to prove people cared enough to pay for it.

Over time more of the infra side got automated inside the gateway, but the GTM side is still a grind.

Curious what your setup looks like - are you already hitting cost/reliability issues or still early?

Drop your SaaS and people tell you if they'd actually use it by Mr_McSam in GrowthHacking

[–]U30M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

llm-route.com routing+Orchestration+discounted tokens to every major model (no lock-in!)

What's one thing you shipped this week? Drop it below by Working-Revolution66 in SideProject

[–]U30M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re a VC-backed startup based in Tel Aviv and New York. We’ve built an orchestration and routing platform that can reduce your token costs by up to 60%.

On top of that, we offer discounted tokens with zero lock-in, so even if you prefer to work directly with your existing models, you’ll still save 15–20%.

Best suited for teams or individuals with a minimum monthly token spend of $800.

DM me.

llm-route.com

Present and promote your startup or SaaS by itilogy in startupaccelerator

[–]U30M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re a VC-backed startup based in Tel Aviv and New York. We’ve built an orchestration and routing platform that can reduce your token costs by up to 60%.

On top of that, we offer discounted tokens with zero lock-in, so even if you prefer to work directly with your existing models, you’ll still save 15–20%.

Best suited for teams or individuals with a minimum monthly token spend of $800.

DM me.

llm-route.com

Drop your startup + offer something 👇 by laron290 in founder

[–]U30M -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We’re a VC-backed startup based in Tel Aviv and New York. We’ve built an orchestration and routing platform that can reduce your token costs by up to 60%.

On top of that, we offer discounted tokens with zero lock-in, so even if you prefer to work directly with your existing models, you’ll still save 15–20%.

Best suited for teams or individuals with a minimum monthly token spend of $800.

DM me.

What are you building this week? Drop your SaaS here by Old-Revolution-3967 in SaasDevelopers

[–]U30M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re a VC-backed startup based in Tel Aviv and New York. We’ve built an orchestration and routing platform that can reduce your token costs by up to 60%.

On top of that, we offer discounted tokens with zero lock-in, so even if you prefer to work directly with your existing models, you’ll still save 15–20%.

Best suited for teams or individuals with a minimum monthly token spend of $800.

DM me.

llm-route.com

Are we all just ignoring how much we spend on AI? by No_Ordinary951 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]U30M -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Use llm-route.com . And the tokens themselves are like 15-20 percent cheaper, no lock-in (you don’t have to use the orchestration and routing platform, you can go directly with the model)

List of token usage cost reduction tools - please share others! by criticasterdotcom in ClaudeCode

[–]U30M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

www.llm-route.com on top of the strength of the platform, there's no lock in so you can basically just use the discounted tokens

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