Been working from Bali and getting crushed by Claude 429s during Cursor indexing. The official API bill was getting ridiculous too. A mate put me on a private gateway with automated failover — 24/7 uptime, zero drops since I switched. Costs around $0.25–$0.35 per 1M tokens, so ~95% cheaper than OpenAI/Anthropic. Same OpenAI-compatible base_url, so Cursor, Aider, n8n, LangChain all work without changing anything. Running Claude Sonnet 5, Opus 5, GPT-6 Asta, and GPT 5.6 Sol.
Happy to share a free $5 benchmark test key if you want to check latency against official in your own setup. Just DM me or @Yashagre 🤝