ClawRouter
Open-source LLM router that saves 78% on inference costs
Details
- External ID
- 46899642
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ClawRouter
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5970350404312669
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
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
- cost optimization routing for llm inference
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 970 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #385 of 971 (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 0.70
- Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing · hn · 2026-07-08 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- LLMRouter · hn · 2025-12-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- genpark-multi-model-cost-latency-router-skill · github · 2026-09-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- genpark-multi-model-cost-latency-router-skill · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- JevRouter · github · 2026-09-18 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- A Highly Available Distributed Router for Global Realtime AI · hn · 2026-06-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- LLM Inference Calculator · hn · 2026-08-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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