ClawRouter
Open-source LLM router that saves 78% on inference costs
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HN · launched Feb 5, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 40%) · 0 views
Niche: llm routing and gateway tools · 143 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -62% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 143 launches in llm routing and gateway tools →
Could you build this?
Yes LLM routers (like OpenRouter or RouteLLM equivalents) are proxy servers that inspect prompt length/complexity with basic heuristics or embeddings and forward requests to suitable downstream provider APIs.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google LLM services, DeepSeek, xAI
Concerns raised: Routing classification accuracy for query complexity, Risk of degraded results from cheaper models on borderline cases
Feature requests: Support for additional LLM providers beyond 30+, Custom routing tier configuration, Performance analytics dashboard for cost/quality tradeoffs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2633 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1036 of 2634 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 97 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kairo · hn · 2026-09-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- chalk-router-oss · github · 2026-10-28 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing · hn · 2026-07-08 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- LLMRouter · hn · 2025-12-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- genpark-multi-model-cost-latency-router-skill · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- JevRouter · github · 2026-09-18 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- A Highly Available Distributed Router for Global Realtime AI · hn · 2026-06-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- TokenRouter · github · 2026-10-08 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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