AnchorShell Relay vs Cleric

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AnchorShell Relay compared with Cleric
Detail	AnchorShell Relay	Cleric
What it does	Smart AI routing gateway for LLM traffic management	AI agents that prevent production incidents by verifying changes and investigating alerts
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	2023
Based in	Not given	US
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Pricing	Self-hosted: Free. Free Hosted: $0/month (10,000 routed requests/month, 2 concurrent requests). Personal: $9/month ($9 billed monthly; 300,000 routed requests/month, 10 concurrent requests). Team: $49/month ($49 billed monthly; 3,000,000 routed requests/month, 100 concurrent requests; 10 people incl	Team $700/month (1,400 credits), Pro $1,500/month (3,000 credits), Scale $3,000/month (6,000 credits), Enterprise custom annual billing. Change verification costs 2 credits ($1), issue investigation costs 10 credits ($5), chat requests 1 credit per started minute after first 30 seconds ($0.50/minute
Key features	Request characterization and intent detection Smart Groups and model assignment Queue-first routing with fallbacks Per-user and per-API-key limits Pre and post-dispatch guardrails Real-time request tracing and analytics 100,000+ model compatibility OpenAI-compatible API Request queuing, pacing and cooldowns Provider cost tracking per request	Production change verification with up to 14-day monitoring Automated root cause analysis for production issues Fix pull request generation with production evidence Environment graph mapping services and dependencies Alert deduplication and false positive dismissal Operational memory accumulating across investigations Integration with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and web app SOC 2 Type II compliance and read-only by default MCP (Model Context Protocol) server support Custom agents and alert routing
What makes it different	Route requests based on intent to optimize cost and latency without sending all work to expensive models Real-time visibility into every LLM request, decision, guardrail, and cost in one trace Enforce per-user, per-agent and organization-wide limits with attribution and audit trails Available as fully self-hosted open-source or managed cloud platform Fast built-in routing at 1-5ms latency or optional System One classifier for richer decisions	Verifies production changes against real traffic for up to 14 days Hands off fix pull requests with production evidence for review Closes false positives and investigates only real production issues Learns from each fix and compounds knowledge across the team Read-only by default with full audit trails and SOC 2 Type II compliance
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet no change since last check	47 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	17	11
Citation Flow (Majestic)	22	36
Referring domains (Majestic)	48	265

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