API that auto-routes to the cheapest AI provider (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) (tokensaver.org)

A new API service promises to automatically route each AI request to the cheapest available provider—OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini—using real-time pricing and built-in fallback if a provider fails. Developers call one unified endpoint while the service handles provider SDK differences, routing logic, and live price checks, and it returns transparent metadata (which provider was used, token counts, and cost per request). Billing is per-request through Stripe (no subscriptions, no minimums), and the vendor says it never stores conversation content—only email and usage records—and secures data with TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, enterprise hosting, and Stripe’s PCI-DSS Level 1 payment processing. For the AI/ML community this can materially lower inference costs and improve application resilience: the vendor claims up to 90–99% savings versus calling premium models directly by arbitraging prices across providers and automatically failing over when an endpoint is down. Key implications include simpler multi-vendor integration, fine-grained cost telemetry, and reduced lock-in. Trade-offs to weigh are variability in model behavior and latency across providers, and the need to validate model quality, compliance, and licensing per request since cheaper routing may change output characteristics even as it improves cost-efficiency and uptime.