Blog
Long-form. Practical.
Five editorial clusters — cost optimization, how kRouter works, honest comparisons, provider reviews, and launch notes. Written by Klaw, our in-house Kodelyth AI agent, edited by humans.
How to route Claude Desktop, Antigravity, and GitHub Copilot through a local proxy
Not every AI tool lets you change its API URL. Here is how kRouter uses local MITM interception to route Claude Desktop, Google Antigravity, and GitHub Copilot traffic through your free tiers.
Save money
· 8 posts
The true cost of Cursor Pro — what $20/month actually buys you
Cursor Pro is $20/month. But the bundled requests run out fast. We break down the real annual cost including overflow.
Why your Cline bill is $200/month (and how to fix it)
Cline is the most token-hungry coding agent on the market. Here is exactly where your money goes and how RTK compression cuts it by 40%.
The cheapest LLMs for coding in 2026 — real numbers
We benchmarked the actual cost per million tokens of every coding-capable LLM available in 2026. GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, DeepSeek, Mistral — here is the leaderboard.
Cursor, Cline, Continue — pick the right tool, keep it cheap
A practical comparison of Cursor, Cline, Continue, and Claude Code for AI coding in 2026. What each does best and how to keep monthly cost under $20.
How to access GPT-5 Codex through Codex Pro without burning your API budget
OpenAI's Codex Plus and Pro plans include GPT-5 access. Here is how to use that bundled access through kRouter so your IDE never touches your direct API key.
5 free Antigravity-powered coding setups for 2026
Antigravity gives you Gemini 3 Pro and Claude through Vertex with $300 free credits. Here are five free coding stacks built around it, with full setup steps.
Kiro AI vs Claude Pro: which is actually cheaper in 2026?
Kiro AI gives you free Claude 4.5. Claude Pro is $20/month for the same model. We ran both for a month and tracked every request. Here is the honest comparison.
How to use Claude Code without paying $200/month
Five proven ways to keep using Claude Opus and Sonnet for coding without paying Anthropic's $200/month Max subscription. Real setups, real costs, real edge cases.
How kRouter works
· 13 postsBuilding a sub-5ms failover proxy: Moving from SQLite to RAM
How kRouter v0.5.69 eliminated SQLite writes from the hot path to achieve instant account failover using an in-memory HealthCache.
How the Zenith routing engine eliminates AI rate limit stalls
kRouter v0.5.75 replaces dumb sequential failovers with the Zenith Score Engine, mathematically pre-ranking providers by live latency and quota headroom.
How kRouter's Agent Skills auto-configure your AI tools
kRouter ships pre-built 'Skills' that teach AI agents how to use all of its endpoints. Here is how to use them.
How to use kRouter as a unified text-to-speech API
kRouter proxies much more than just LLM chat. Here is how to unify your Text-to-Speech (TTS) pipelines across OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, and MiniMax.
The security checklist for self-hosting an AI router
Running kRouter on a VPS means your OAuth tokens, API keys, and prompts live there. Here is the security checklist that keeps them safe.
How to build a cheap autonomous coding agent with kRouter
Skip the SaaS markup. Here is a 50-line OpenAI-compatible coding agent that runs on free providers via kRouter, total monthly cost under $5.
How to route Claude through AWS Bedrock with kRouter
Bedrock gives you Claude with enterprise compliance, regional control, and PrivateLink. Here is how to wire it into kRouter as a provider.
Anthropic rate limits explained: a deep dive for heavy users
Why you hit rate limits on Claude even when you have credits. We decode Anthropic's tier system and show how to engineer around it.
OpenAI to Claude to Gemini: how kRouter translates 9 formats live
Every AI provider speaks a slightly different JSON dialect. Here is how kRouter translates between OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Kiro, Vertex, Antigravity, Ollama, and Responses formats on the fly.
Run your own AI router on a $5/month VPS
How to deploy kRouter to a $5/month Hetzner or DigitalOcean VPS and route your team's AI traffic through it. Tailscale-friendly, nginx-fronted, zero vendor lock-in.
Multi-account routing: never hit a rate limit again
How to stack multiple accounts on the same provider for round-robin routing in kRouter. Quota multiplication without account-juggling pain.
Why your AI agent eats 40% of its budget on tool outputs
Tool results (git diff, ls, grep, tree, file reads) are the silent token tax on agentic coding. RTK compression in kRouter cuts that by 20-40% per request, losslessly.
Use Antigravity through kRouter without getting your Google account banned
Antigravity's verify-your-account 403 ban is a real bug in many integrations. Here is why it happens and how kRouter fixes it at byte level.
Comparisons
· 3 posts
How to use Kiro IDE with any OpenAI model via MITM Passthrough
Kiro Desktop hardcodes its API endpoints. In v0.5.74, kRouter shipped perfect MITM passthrough, letting you route Kiro traffic to any model.
Windsurf vs Cursor: which AI IDE actually feels better in 2026?
Cursor still dominates, but Codeium's Windsurf has gotten genuinely competitive. We compare them on real workflows.
Claude Code vs Cursor — a 30-day real-world bake-off
We ran Claude Code and Cursor side by side for a month on a real Next.js codebase. Here is which one actually shipped more features.
Provider reviews
· 2 posts
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-5 for coding: the price-performance shock
DeepSeek V3 charges $0.70/M and matches GPT-5 on most coding benchmarks. We tested both on real refactors to see if the numbers hold up.
Ollama vs LM Studio: the local AI showdown for 2026
Both run open-weight models on your laptop. We compare Ollama and LM Studio across speed, model catalog, IDE integration, and quirks.
