Throttle
Smart routing for LLM inference, save thousands on API costs
Details
- External ID
- 1260050
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Throttle
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Developer Tools, Tech, Vercel Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
We built Throttle because teams are bleeding money on LLM inference. Your bill keeps climbing even though you're not using better models. Throttle sits between your code and Claude/OpenAI, automatically routes requests to cheaper models when quality isn't sacrificed, caches intelligently, and batches efficiently. Result: 70% cost cuts, same performance. Built for startups and companies already paying $1000+/month on inference.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ML inference and model optimization
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- smart llm inference router to reduce api costs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial An LLM proxy is easy to build, but dynamic semantic routing based on input complexity and quality thresholds requires custom benchmarking and specialized ML classification.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves a high-throughput, low-latency reverse proxy (Go or Rust) deployed at the edge. The hard part is building the dynamic routing model: an accurate, low-latency classifier (or embedding evaluator) that evaluates prompt complexity to route to smaller models without quality degradation, alongside semantic caching mechanisms.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #115 of 148 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Frugon · hn · 2026-07-07 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ClawRouter · hn · 2026-02-05 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I built a tool showing how AI providers (should) throttle their models · hn · 2026-08-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Rayline routes Claude Code subagents to on-device and cheaper models · hn · 2026-06-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor · hn · 2026-06-26 · 216 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Bloomberg Terminal for LLM ops · hn · 2026-04-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing · hn · 2026-07-08 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Sunk Cost · hn · 2026-09-15 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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