Anyone else getting wrecked by Claude 429s while Cursor indexes? I was burning $500+/mo on Anthropic API and still hitting rate limits. Switched to a private 24/7 gateway with automated failover — now paying roughly $0.25–0.35 per 1M tokens, about 95% less, and haven't seen a single 429 since.
It's a standard OpenAI-compatible base_url, so it dropped straight into Cursor, Aider, Cline, LangChain, n8n. Running Claude Sonnet 5, Opus 5, and the GPT-6 Asta / 5.6 Sol models.
Happy to share a free $5 benchmark test key if you want to test latency against official. Just DM me or @Yashagre 🤝