STEEROS

Pay only for the llm models your prompt actually needs.

Details

STEEROS: the local router that sends every Claude Code prompt to the cheapest model that can handle it. Cut token spend 60%+.

Theme: utilities for Claude and Claude Code
Vertical: Horizontal
Function: Model & infra
Audience: Developer
AI stance: AI-native
Project type: Commercial product
Normalized one-liner: prompt-based llm routing and cost optimizer for developers
Manually corrected: False

Yes This is a local proxy/router that inspects incoming prompt complexity or patterns and routes requests to different LLM endpoints.

Other products that read as similar to this one — 41 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #17 of 42 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.

jev-router · github · 2026-09-16 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor · hn · 2026-06-26 · 216 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Rayline routes Claude Code subagents to on-device and cheaper models · hn · 2026-06-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Throttle · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Weave Router 2.0 · ph · 2026-09-16 · 333 upvotes · similarity 0.38
ClawPool · hn · 2026-02-11 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Culpa · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Cyan Voice for Claude Code · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36

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