Auriko
One API that routes your LLM calls to whichever provider is cheapest and fastest right now
Overview
Auriko isn't a chatbot or a writing tool. It's infrastructure for developers who are already calling LLM APIs and want to stop overpaying for them. The pitch, built by a team with a quant trading background, is that different providers price the same or similar models differently depending on caching, load, and time of day, and Auriko's engine arbitrages that spread automatically. Point your app at Auriko instead of a single provider, and it routes each call to whoever is cheapest and reliable enough at that moment.
The free tier is genuinely usable: all models, no markup, cache-aware routing, and a 5M monthly request cap on your own keys. The $89/mo Pro tier removes the rate limits and adds team seats and deterministic routing, which matters if you're running this in production. The catch is that this is a young product with a small public track record. Product Hunt commenters raised fair questions about output consistency when the same prompt gets routed to different provider backends, and about what happens during a fallback cascade. If you're building something where model behavior needs to be perfectly consistent, test this carefully before trusting it in production.
Key Features
Unified API: One OpenAI-compatible endpoint gives you access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI Studio, xAI, DeepSeek, Fireworks, Together AI, and more.
Cost-Aware Routing: Auriko models each provider's real pricing, including prompt-caching mechanics, and routes each request to the cheapest viable option.
Custom Routing Strategies: Choose default routing or build your own rules weighted for cost, latency, throughput, or quality.
Automatic Failover: If a provider degrades or goes down, Auriko reroutes automatically to keep requests flowing.
Budget Controls: Set spending limits at the workspace or API-key level so costs don't run away.
Zero Markup: You pay the same per-token price the provider charges; Auriko doesn't add a margin on top.
Pricing
Starting price
$89/mo
Free: $0/mo plus pay-as-you-go API costs, no markup. All models, cache-aware and fallback routing, 1K platform RPM, 5M BYOK monthly request cap, community support.
Pro: $89/mo plus pay-as-you-go API costs, no markup. Everything in Free, plus deterministic routing, team seats, unlimited RPM and BYOK caps, email support.
Enterprise: Custom pricing. SSO/SAML, custom SLA, dedicated support, invoice billing, custom routing policy.
Disclaimer: pricing can change and this is a new, fast-moving product. Confirm current tiers and limits on Auriko's own pricing page before committing.
Pros
No Markup: You pay raw provider pricing, Auriko doesn't tack on a fee per token.
Real Cost Savings: Auriko cites roughly 30% average cost reduction versus calling providers directly, driven by cache-aware routing.
Broad Provider Coverage: Access to a wide set of major and secondary LLM providers through one integration.
Usable Free Tier: Full model access and routing features at $0, not a crippled trial.
Framework Support: Works with LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and agent SDKs out of the box.
Cons
Very New: This launched recently and has a thin track record outside its Product Hunt debut, so long-term reliability at scale is unproven.
Consistency Questions: Reviewers on Product Hunt flagged real concerns about output drift when identical prompts get routed across different provider backends.
Developer-Only: This is a pure API product with no interface for non-technical users; if you don't write code, it's not for you.
Adds a Dependency: Routing through a third party means an extra point of failure and trust between you and the model providers.
Sparse Independent Coverage: Almost all available information comes from Auriko's own site and launch pages, with little independent review yet.
What Makes It Unique
Cache-Aware Cost Arbitrage: Unlike simple model-switching routers, Auriko specifically models prompt-caching economics across providers to find savings that a flat price comparison would miss.
Kay Score
6.5
/ 10
Tool Information
Pricing
$89/mo
Category
Coding & Development
Platform
Web / iOS / Android
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