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Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)

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Frugon

Your LLM bill is leaking — see exactly where, on your machine.

Free, local, open-source LLM cost analyzer. Point Frugon at your LLM call logs and see — on your machine — how much you'd save by switching or routing models.

Your data never leaves your machine. Your keys go straight to your own providers. Nothing reaches us.

Install & run

# one-shot (no install) uvx frugon analyze ./logs.jsonl # permanent install pipx install frugon frugon analyze ./logs.jsonl # for --measure (optional): samples real prompts through your own provider keys pip install ' frugon[measure] ' frugon analyze ./logs.jsonl --measure

No logs yet? See Getting your logs below, or run frugon analyze --demo to see it work on a bundled sample.

Getting your logs

frugon reads JSONL files in the OpenAI request/response format. There are two ways to produce them.

Option A — frugon capture (proxy shim)

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