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Hey HN. I built this because my Anthropic API bills were getting out of hand (spoiler: they remain high even with this, batch is not a magic bullet).I use Claude Code daily for software design and infra work (terraform, code reviews, docs). Many Terminal tabs, many questions. I realised some questions are ok to wait on and with that comes some cost savings. So here is a small MCP that lets you send work directly to Anthropic's Batch API from inside Claude Code, for the same quality responses just 50% cheaper, results come back in ~30min-1hr. How it works: you type /batch review this codebase for security issues, Claude gathers all the context, builds a self-contained prompt, ships it to the Batch API via an MCP server, and you get notified in the status bar when it's done (optional). The README has installation instructions, which were mainly generated by claude. I removed the curl | bash setup and at this stage of the project i feel more confident sharing the manual setup instructions. My main hope with this project is to monetize it. Not by asking for money, rather I am hoping others have ideas or improvements to add and use those to save more on cost.

HN · launched Feb 11, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 29%) · 0 views

Niche: llm optimization tools · 127 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a utility CLI or wrapper around the Anthropic Batch API, queuing prompts and checking statuses to take advantage of off-peak batch pricing.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Concerns raised: Token budgets don't prevent rapid token consumption, High costs of LLM usage for developers, Lack of scheduling flexibility for non-urgent tasks

Feature requests: Better token budget enforcement mechanisms, Flexible scheduling with deadlines for batch jobs, Priority-based task queuing system

Competitors

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Attention rank: #227 of 580 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 103 days after the earliest competitor.

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