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Experiential Labs Ships an Open-Source, Zero-Markup OpenRouter That Distills a Model You Own From Your Own Traffic
The YC-backed Experiential gateway took Product Hunt's #6 slot on 2026-09-05 with 125 upvotes, Apache-2.0, 1,584 GitHub stars as of today with a push earlier this morning. It is one control plane across closed, open-source, local and BYOK models with no token markup, 90% off repeated tokens via prompt caching, and a claimed floor of 50% lower cost through routing. The differentiator against OpenRouter and LiteLLM is the second act: it builds a simulation from your live traffic's tasks, failures and edge cases and trains a specialized model you keep. It reports over 10 billion tokens a day across 1,000+ developers and 50+ companies.
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