Built by one founder
Why FrugalAI Exists
Jake Bauman created FrugalAI after seeing model choice become a recurring engineering and finance problem. The product moves cost control into the request path, where routing, caching, attribution, and budget policy can act before an invoice arrives.
Budget pressure
Act before the invoice
Control costs where requests actually happen
Provider dashboards explain charges after the fact. FrugalAI meters integer nanoUSD costs at the gateway, then applies routing, cache, and budget policy before eligible requests become provider bills.
Bundled demo fixture
Request decision ledger
Make model choice observable
Every request records its requested and routed model, provider, decision reason, policy mode, cache status, latency, cost, and baseline. That audit trail separates controlled optimization from a silent model swap.