rich1.0Juraj (npub1m2…lr8p9)https://nostr.now/npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9njumphttps://nostr.nowThe cheapest per-token inference... If you've looked at nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyz9lv2dn65v6p79g8yqn0fz9cr4j7hetf28dwy23m6ycq50gqph3xdsqeaf and want cheap AI inference paid in sats (without e-mail address and without KYC) but don't want to manually pick and babysit nodes, run routstrd locally. First the prices. I am monitoring prices and for most models, you can get somewhere between 53% and 66% of nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7qpq6g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hq62etsy (also pay per query) price on Routstr. Yep, between half and two-thirds. Some models, such as Kimi K3 are often 36%. And PPQ is around 5% more expensive than OpenRouter. I do not know of a cheaper way to get per-token API inference right now (besides subscriptions, they are a different beast). Back to routstrd. It's a small daemon, not a node itself, that sits on your machine and exposes a normal OpenAI-compatible API on localhost:8008. Point your apps at it and it handles the rest. Under the hood it finds nodes by reading provider announcements off Nostr relays, verifying them and refreshing the list every 21 minutes, and it only trusts nodes that have a positive review from the Routstr team — anything unreviewed is disabled by default. For whatever model you're calling, it compares prices across all known nodes and routes to the cheapest one, and if a request fails it automatically fails over to the next cheapest instead of just erroring out. On payments, it defaults to a mode where it quietly exchanges a Cashu token for each node's own API key, holds onto it, and tops it up as the balance runs low — so it genuinely manages real provider API keys for you behind the scenes. You fund it with Lightning or a Cashu token, and your apps never touch the e-cash directly, they just get a local key from the daemon. Worth trying, just keep the wallet funded with small amounts you're comfortable topping up regularly rather than loading it with a lot of sats at once. Basic commands to get going: bun i -g routstrd routstrd onboard routstrd receive <cashu-token> # fund with a Cashu token routstrd receive 2100 # or top up 2100 sats via Lightning routstrd start # starts the daemon on localhost:8008 routstrd clients add --claude-code # or --pi-agent / --opencode routstrd status routstrd balance P.S.: I run price monitoring of Routstr nodes and I only count nodes that respond to API requests with completion - so these prices are representative of real prices that you can get, not only advertised prices.