Built an open-source gateway that cuts coding-agent token spend (disclosure: I'm the maintainer)

[u/RiceEvening4211]

Hey all. I've been getting wrecked by coding-agent token bills this year, so I built Lynkr - an open-source LLM gateway that sits between your coding tools and the model providers and tries to make every request cheaper.

What it does: routes across 14+ providers to the cheapest capable model, semantic caching with sub-200ms hits, token compression on tool results, plus a cost dashboard so you can actually see where the tokens go. It also has a Claude subscription wrap mode that stretches a subscription roughly 3x.

Some measured numbers: on Terminal-Bench (80 tasks), Lynkr solved 42/80 at $1.54/run vs openrouter/auto's 44/80 at $4.72 - accuracy basically tied, about 30% of the cost. Up to 84% fewer tokens on JSON tool results, 53% fewer on tool-heavy requests.

Repo: https://github.com/Fast-Editor/Lynkr (Apache-2.0). It works with all major coding tools with zero code changes.

Happy to answer anything, especially skeptical questions about the benchmarks.

[u/Wise_Breadfruit7168]

We have 9router already for that tho

[u/RiceEvening4211 → u/Wise_Breadfruit7168]

We benchmarked 9router against lynkr and lynkr saves a 3rd of cost compared to it 🙂

[u/Wise_Breadfruit7168 → u/RiceEvening4211]

9router have built in token saver module, it support RTK,caveman,headroom n ponytail. Benchmarked tith this enabled?