Auriko is a unified LLM routing platform that acts as a trading desk for AI inference. It provides a single API endpoint to access a wide range of language model providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI Studio, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, and others. The platform intelligently routes each request to the optimal provider based on customizable strategies that can prioritize cost, latency, throughput, or other constraints. By modeling workload interactions with provider-specific pricing and prompt-caching mechanics, Auriko claims to reduce inference costs by up to 30%.
Beyond routing, Auriko offers a suite of operational tools for production AI deployments. These include predictive signals on provider performance and health, automatic failover to ensure uptime, capacity intelligence to avoid rate limits, and key orchestration that supports both bring-your-own-key (BYOK) and managed platform keys. Global deployment across a distributed edge network minimizes latency for users worldwide.
Integration is designed to be straightforward, with an OpenAI-compatible API that allows developers to switch to Auriko with minimal code changes. The platform also provides native integrations with popular AI frameworks and tools such as LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and coding agents like Claude Code. Comprehensive observability and FinOps features, including usage analytics and budget controls, help teams track and manage their inference spending effectively.
Overall, Auriko positions itself as a control plane for AI inference, combining a model gateway, intelligent routing, monitoring, and cost management in a single platform. It targets development teams and enterprises looking to streamline their LLM usage, optimize costs, and maintain high reliability without the overhead of managing multiple provider integrations.
Solves
Managing multiple LLM providers, optimizing inference costs, and ensuring reliable access are significant challenges for AI application developers. Auriko solves this by providing a unified API with cost-aware routing, automatic failover, and comprehensive observability, enabling teams to reduce spending, simplify integration, and maintain high availability.