Cloptima
AI Gateway, Guardrails & LLM FinOps
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Cloptima puts your own rules in front of every AI call: a virtual key per app with its own policy, guardrails that mask data before it leaves, tool policy for agents, budgets that block, session replay, an edge gateway inside your network, and prices each call on an attributed ledger before the provider sees a token. Setup is one line.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 59 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: llm routing and gateway tools · 143 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security
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Could you build this?
Partial Virtual keys, budgets, and a request-logging proxy are vibe-codeable, but production guardrails that reliably mask sensitive data, plus a low-latency edge gateway, need deeper security and infrastructure expertise.
What it would actually take: Architecture would be a reverse proxy or gateway in a high-performance language (Go, Rust, or Envoy-based) with per-key policy evaluation, a metering ledger, and streaming support for LLM responses. The hard parts are PII and secret detection with low false negatives, tool-call policy enforcement for agents, and deployment inside customer networks with minimal latency. This requires security engineers and infrastructure experience, not only prompt-driven coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
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