Augur routes each request to a cost-effective model proven capable for the work. In Chat and CLI, your monthly allowance goes towards more useful work. In metered API workloads, routine tasks stop defaulting to premium-model prices. Every route closes with a receipt you can check against your provider’s own invoice.
Chat, CLI, and an OpenAI-compatible API on the same accountable gateway
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High stakes + jurisdiction-specific. Augur raised the quality floor and recorded why.
One routing principle, two ways to benefit
Augur starts with the capability the task requires, then finds the best-value route that satisfies it. The result matters whether your budget is fixed or every token is metered.
Augur Chat + CLI
Not every turn needs premium-model economics. Augur matches each task to a capable model, so your monthly allowance is spent where the work needs it instead of being locked to one provider or tier.
One subscription · both front ends · routing included
API + metered workloads
When every token is billed, Augur chooses the most cost-effective eligible route, protects cache value, and avoids premium-model spend on routine work. The receipt keeps the economics inspectable.
Direct provider costs · policy enforced · receipt per call
Independent by design
Augur is not a fixed model menu or a resale layer. It connects to providers directly, keeps the catalogue open-ended, and makes each decision using your evidence and rules.
Augur holds credentials with each provider directly, so the price you pay is theirs and a failure is one you can see the cause of. No reseller in the path.
Models are discovered from each provider rather than hand-listed, so a new release is available when the provider ships it — not when we get round to it.
Every request is classified, priced against every eligible model, and sent to the best-value route that meets the quality floor you set. Optimisation for the outcome, not a race to the bottom.
A model earns eligibility by proving itself on a canary before it serves you. Routing changes when the evidence changes, not when a vendor announces something.
A stable prompt prefix is often worth more than any per-token discount. Augur keeps context cacheable and prices the difference into the decision. Most gateways break it without mentioning it.
Every call closes with a receipt: tokens, tariff, model and cost. Import your provider's own cost and usage reports and reconcile them against the ledger, per model, per day.
How it works
One repeatable decision loop for every model, provider, product, and request.
Your traffic, their price, no margin in the middle. Credentials are held with each provider, not with a reseller.
Evaluated, canaried, promoted — or not. No model routes on reputation alone, and none serves you before it has proven it can.
The most cost-effective model that clears the bar, with the cost of a lost cache counted in the sum rather than discovered afterwards.
Which model, which tariff, what it cost, and why that route — durable, and reconcilable against your provider's own reports.
See it working
One subscription gives you two ways to put the same cost-effective routing to work. What you see here is what your own traffic does through the gateway.
The gateway with a conversation attached. Each question is matched to a capable tier, so your allowance is not consumed at premium-model economics by default. Every answer carries the tier, price, and routing reason.
A coding agent in your terminal on the same allowance and gateway. It can use a fast, cost-effective route for routine repository work and raise the capability floor when the task demands it, printing what every step cost as it goes.
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4 steps · $0.0131Start in Chat or CLI to make a monthly allowance work harder. Connect the API when usage is metered. In both cases, Augur routes for capability and cost, then gives you the receipt.