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Alternatives to Costly
Costly: Watches your app's Claude API calls and points out waste, such as repeated prompts or oversized models, with suggested fixes. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 19 have a free plan.
- Selfship
Watches your AI agent's real traffic, finds where it fails customers and opens tested pull requests with fixes.
Since 2026
Subscription · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Spanlens
Logs every LLM call with cost, latency and agent traces once you change one base URL; hosted or self-hosted.
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- BGPScout
Routing data on tens of thousands of networks for ISPs and data centres, which you can query yourself or through AI assistants.
Since 2026
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- AgentDM
Gives each AI agent an alias so agents and people can message each other over MCP and A2A, with a Slack bridge.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AgentsProof
Traces AI agent runs, scores them against your own rules and test cases, and gives a shareable report link.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AI Commander
Lets AI assistants like Claude, Codex or ChatGPT run shell commands and background jobs on machines you own, with no inbound ports opened.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Archestra
An open-source gateway between AI agents and company systems that enforces identity, tool policies and audit logs.
Since 2025
Security and passwords · Developers
- Aurora Gateway
Self-hosted gateway that routes, caches and tracks your app's requests to OpenAI, Anthropic and other LLM providers.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Bifrost
Open-source gateway that routes app requests to many LLM providers, with budgets, guardrails and logging.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- bugzero
For developers: pulls crash reports out of Sentry or PostHog, drafts a fix in your own GitHub Actions with your AI key, and opens a PR.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- cloro
API that fetches Google results and answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and others as clean data, for SEO tracking.
Since 2025
Subscription · SEO · Agencies
- ContextVault
A shared memory store that lets a team's AI assistants save and reuse knowledge across sessions and tools.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- CostHawk
Shows engineering leaders how much their team uses AI models, what it costs and who is getting value from it.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- Dexio
A hosted wiki that Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI agents share through MCP, so people can see and edit what the agents know.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- EventSend
Send app events with one HTTP call, then search them and get them delivered to Slack, Discord, Telegram or webhooks.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Forth MCP
Relay that lets Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients reach MCP servers inside your network without opening ports.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Grepture
Gateway that sits in front of your LLM calls to log traces, track cost, run evals and strip personal data.
Free plan · Security and passwords · Developers
- KeyID
Hosted service that gives each AI agent its own inbox, phone number, storage and 2FA on domains kept for your project.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- LLM Gateway
One OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests to hundreds of models from many providers and tracks what each call costs.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- localscreenshot
Lets AI assistants and developers grab clean web page screenshots from 227 countries through MCP, a CLI or a REST API.
Free plan · Developer tools · Agencies
- Notifly
A hosted API for product teams to send app notifications over email, SMS, push, chat and an in app inbox.
Since 2020
Free plan · Transactional email · Developers
- OpenGeocoding
A managed API for geocoding, address autocomplete and reverse lookups on open data, with a free monthly allowance.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Pullfrog
A GitHub app that runs AI agents in GitHub Actions to review pull requests, triage issues and fix failing CI.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Retrace
Records each model and tool call an AI agent makes so developers can rerun failures, branch from a step and test fixes.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers