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10 founding partners · managed 90-day pilot

Cut AI spend in 30 days without downgrading your product.

We measure your real traffic, show the savings before changing a thing, then manage the rollout only where your quality bar holds.

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Free spend teardown first. You will know if it is a fit.

Every request, itemized

Sample data

Sample

What you spent

$5,455

What it would have cost

$29,860

Requests

629.8K

Your own provider accounts

Quality bar agreed in writing

Instant rollback at every stage

Keep the AI companies you already use. Make them compete for every request.

The priciest model in this catalog costs over 100 times more than the cheapest, and plenty of everyday work runs fine on the cheap end. FrugalAI only uses the accounts you have already connected, so nothing goes anywhere you have not approved.

OpenAIAnthropicGoogleDeepSeekMistralGroqTogether AIFireworks AIxAI

Product controls

Cheaper models

Every request gets a receipt

Before a request goes out, FrugalAI checks which models can actually handle it, which ones you have approved, and how much budget is left. It picks the cheapest one that qualifies, then writes down which model it used and why. If that model is down, it falls back to the next one.

gpt-4.1

claude-fable-5

auto

Decision receipt

gemini-3-flash

Reason
cheapest that fit
Step
try it
Backup
ready

Quality control

Watch first. Switch later.

FrugalAI starts by changing nothing. It just records what you spend and what a cheaper model would have cost. Once you have seen enough of that to trust it, you let it start making the swap. It keeps spot-checking the answers, and if quality slips below the line you set, it stops swapping on its own.

How you turn it on

You stay in control

01

Watch

Nothing changes yet

02

Try it

Swap where you allow it

03

Run it

Your rules apply

Answers get spot-checked the whole time. If quality drops below your line, it goes back to watching.

Repeat answers

Same question twice, one bill

Customers ask the same things over and over. When a question has already been answered, FrugalAI can reuse that answer instead of paying for it again. Anything sensitive or one-of-a-kind skips this and goes to a live model as normal.

Incoming request

your company only

Already answered

hit: 23 ms

Reused

you were not charged

Stored answers never cross between companies, and anything sensitive or one-of-a-kind skips this entirely.

Budgets

Give every team a budget

Set a monthly number per team and decide what happens when they get close: warn you, quietly move them to cheaper models, or stop the spend. You choose which, so important work keeps running instead of failing without warning.

Spending caps

Act before the bill lands

Support58%
Extraction76%
Experiments92%
Warn meGo cheaperStop it

We show you the savings before we change anything

You are not asked to trust a number in a sales deck. FrugalAI spends the first stretch changing nothing at all, just showing you what you would have saved. You decide when it graduates to the next step, and you can move it back any time.

01

Watch

Monitor mode

Nothing changes. Your apps behave exactly as they do today while FrugalAI records what each request cost, which team it belongs to, and what a cheaper model would have cost instead.

02

Try it

Assist mode

You let FrugalAI start swapping in cheaper models, but only on the requests you have not pinned to a specific model. Anything you want left alone stays untouched.

03

Run it

Enforce mode

Your rules apply across the workload. If answer quality drops below the line you set, FrugalAI puts itself back into watch mode without waiting for anyone to notice.

ON

The safety net

Always running

This is not a fourth step. FrugalAI spot-checks answers the whole time it is swapping models, so a drop in quality pulls it back automatically.

You can check our math

Click any number and follow it down to the individual requests behind it. Money you actually saved is kept separate from money you could have saved, because those are different things and only one of them shows up in your bank account. Sample data is always labeled.

Every request, itemized

Acme AI (demo) / sample data

Sample data

What you spent

$5,455

What it would have cost

$29,860

Requests

629.8K

Recent requests

"Would have cost" is an estimate, not money saved.

support-bot

claude-fable-5 -> claude-haiku-4-5

cheaper model, quality ok

$0.002299

would have cost $0.020691

codegen-ci

auto -> moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905

already answered, no charge

$0.000000

would have cost $0.163670

rag-search

auto -> gemini-3-flash-preview

cheapest that fit the job

$0.003301

would have cost $0.059789

A receipt for every request

See which model you asked for, which one actually answered, why it was chosen, whether the answer was reused, and what it cost.

Proof before any swap

See the quality checks behind each cheaper model, so a swap is a decision you sign off on rather than one you discover later.

Accurate to a fraction of a cent

Single requests cost tiny fractions of a cent. We count them exactly, then show you normal dollar totals.

Who spent what

Every request is tied to a team and a budget, so you can answer "which department drove the increase" without guessing.

One small change. Thirty days of proof.

Your apps already send their AI requests to an address. They send them to us instead, and we pass them along. No rebuild, no new vendor for your AI accounts, and you keep paying those companies directly. Your team should still test their own app before letting FrugalAI change anything.

1 · Your app

Your app asks

2 · FrugalAI checks

Your rules

which models are allowed

Already answered?

reuse it instead of paying

Budget left?

warn, downgrade, or stop

3 · Best-fit model

The cheapest model that fits

Days 1-30: prove the number before changing a route

We install the workload with you, agree on the quality bar, and deliver the shadow report before you approve enforcement.

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Buy the lower bill. The software is how we get you there.

The founding offer is built around the result: a documented, quality-matched savings plan, a managed rollout, and a bill your team can control. Provider usage remains on your own accounts.

Private beta · 10 companies

Founding Partner pilot

A managed 90-day cost-control rollout for one meaningful workload.

$5,000

one time · 90 days

Hands-on setup and a written traffic baseline
30 days of watch mode before enforcement
Route-by-route quality and savings report
Managed rollout with instant rollback
Budgets, cache, and request-level receipts
$1,500/month continuation rate locked for 12 months

If the 30-day shadow report does not identify at least $15,000 in annualized savings at the quality bar we agree in writing, we refund the $5,000 pilot fee.

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Need several teams, security review, and procurement?

Enterprise agreements start at $60,000 per year.

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