AnchorShell Relay vs Tare

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AnchorShell Relay compared with Tare
Detail	AnchorShell Relay	Tare
What it does	Smart AI routing gateway for LLM traffic management	See where your AI coding agent's tokens go, cut the waste without breaking the prompt cache, and get a receipt for every saving
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Founded	Not given	Not given
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Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
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	Free for open source (Wrapped, all fixes with undo, receipt, skill, plugin, MCP server). Team: $30 per developer, or 10% of verified savings, whichever is lower (spend by engineer, cost per merged PR, CI gate). Enterprise: contact for self-hosted, SSO, finance exports, procurement-grade reports.
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	Session log analysis with token pricing breakdown Categorized spending attribution by startup context, tool output, sub-agents, and cache rebuilds Safe automatic fixes for output trimming and cache countdown Undo capability for all changes Receipt comparing cost-per-commit before and after with 90% confidence range Shareable card with visualization of token usage Command output trimming to reduce context bloat Cache expiration countdown in status line MCP server integration for any agent Claude Code plugin with skill and MCP server
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	Reads actual logs your agent already keeps, not a third-party service Fixes only trim new content without rewriting cache to preserve prompt optimization Open source under Apache 2.0 with no incentive to make you spend more tokens
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet no change since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	17	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	22	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	48	0

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