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What We Promise, In Writing

Every commitment behind apicuts, the done-for-you API gateway for all models: what you get, how we cut your LLM API costs by 20% or more without breaking anything, and how we prove it.

The non-negotiables

What every apicuts account gets, in writing.

Privacy and zero data retention options

Removes security objections. Prompts and outputs pass straight through the gateway and are never stored.

Transparent pricing dashboard

Exact visibility into costs and savings.

Budgets, usage limits and alerts

Prevents unexpected bills.

Enterprise SLAs and support

Builds trust with funded AI companies.

No long-term contracts

Easier purchasing decision. No retainers, and you can leave anytime.

Built for production AI teams

For companies running AI in production at scale.

Verified savings

A defensible discount against your existing provider and model pricing.

No-compromise migration

Same models and features, with a clearly documented migration path.

Provenance and compliance

Evidence of authorized API supply, lawful resale where applicable, and clear data-handling terms.

Enterprise reliability

SLAs, failover, monitoring, and transparent status reporting.

Savings dashboard

See your actual spend, baseline costs, and realized savings.

Volume-based deals

Stronger economics for teams spending $10,000–$1 million or more monthly.

The gateway

One API for every major model.

Lower effective API costs

Direct, measurable financial incentive: at least 20% lower cost per request, or you pay nothing.

OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Minimal code changes. Switching is usually one base URL and one API key.

Intelligent provider routing

The cheapest suitable provider for the requested model.

Optional intelligent model routing

Lower-cost equivalent models, only when approved.

Caching and batch optimization

Additional cost savings from prompt caching and batch processing.

BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)

Enterprises can retain their provider accounts.

The offer

Zero purchasing risk.

Independently measurable savings

Savings are measured per equivalent successful request, accounting for usage mix, quality, latency and error rate.

A free audit with a dollar figure

Your teardown shows current spend, avoidable waste, projected savings, implementation effort and how confident we are.

No savings, no implementation fee

Miss 20% and you pay nothing. Verification rules are in our guarantee terms.

You own every fix

Every change is yours, with documentation, tests and rollback instructions.

No forced provider or gateway change

We can optimize inside your existing architecture. A migration happens only if you approve it.

Clear, transparent commercial terms

No retainers, no long-term contracts, no surprises. Fees are agreed in writing before kickoff.

Every savings lever

Where the 20%+ comes from.

Automatic call-site discovery

We trace API spend back to the files, functions, agents, customers and workflows behind it.

Prompt and context optimization

We remove redundant tokens, control output length and make prompt prefixes reusable.

Caching and batching

Provider prompt caching, safe semantic caching and asynchronous batch processing.

Intelligent model routing

Workload-specific quality evaluations decide which requests can go to less expensive models.

Retries and agent-loop controls

We catch duplicate requests, runaway tool loops, wasted retries and uncontrolled spend.

Provider pricing optimization

We compare official providers, negotiated pricing and commitment discounts.

Advanced optimization where justified

Fine-tuning, distillation, self-hosting or quantization, only when your workload economics support them.

Reliability

Optimization that never breaks production.

Your own quality baseline

Test datasets, quality targets and failure thresholds are set before any model substitution.

Automated A/B tests and rollback

Changes go out behind feature flags and canary traffic, with quality gates and fast rollback.

Invoice-backed savings reporting

Savings are reconciled with your provider invoices, not just token counts. See our savings methodology.

Continuous alerts

You hear about it when cost, latency, model behavior or cache effectiveness drift.

Security and privacy by design

Least-privilege access, no stored prompts or outputs, documented deletion and a DPA on request. See our Trust Center.

Reproducible evidence

Versioned changes, test outputs, the baseline methodology, your approvals and monthly reports, all on record.

Working with us

Simple from the first call.

One-click onboarding

Start from a read-only usage export or the telemetry you already have. No sales-heavy process.

A shareable CFO-ready savings report

Dollars saved, margin improvement and payback, ready to forward to your CFO or investors.

Works with your existing stack

Already on LiteLLM or Portkey? apicuts is OpenAI-compatible, so it plugs in like any other provider.

Recurring savings protection

Optional monitoring, re-audits and new optimizations as your usage grows, with no lock-in.

A dedicated optimization engineer

One accountable engineer owns your implementation, incidents and change reviews.

Published methodology

How we measure savings, and its limits, is public in our savings methodology.

Want us to find your 20%?

Book a free 15-minute API cost teardown. Bring last month's provider usage and we'll show you your biggest waste and the first fix we'd ship.

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