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Show HN: OpenRouter Provider Economics

I wrote a little site that translates OpenRouter token usage into dollars. It allows you to see estimated revenue by provider and model. Currently updates once per day. Would appreciate feedback!https://routers.vantage.sh/

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Re:OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:59PM (#48198639)
Back in my day we called this Savings Plans ;)

Really excited to see this from OpenAI though.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:54PM (#47978602)
Vantage | Founding Solutions Architect / FDE | NYC and Remote | Full Time

Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Canva, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their cloud, SaaS and AI costs. As a Solutions Architect, you will work hands-on with Vantage’s most strategic and technically complex customers to ensure successful adoption and long-term value. This is a highly technical, customer-facing role focused on implementation, architecture, and problem-solving, rather than pure support or customer success.

We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026) on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:53PM (#47604949)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend. We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers.

We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Show HN: LLM Price to Performance Tool

tldr: We launched https://vantage.sh/models - a price to performance comparison tool for LLMs. If you're familiar with ec2instances.info....this is basically the LLM version of that.- - - -I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage posting on behalf of our team that shipped this. Vantage is a cloud cost management platform. We also maintain https://ec2instances.info/ after buying the site a few years...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026) on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:02PM (#47224017)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers.

We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:55PM (#46858975)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time

Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers.

We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Re:AWS Announces Graviton 5 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:58AM (#46233001)
Good feedback! Having someone on our team get this completed for you.
Re:AWS Announces Graviton 5 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:58AM (#46232990)
Huh...weird. I just looked into this and we do have us-east-1-chi-1....but not chi-2. It appears that chi-2 isn't being returned at all as part of the bulk pricing API from AWS for some reason. We'll see if we can dig deeper on why that's the case but just wanted to let you know that's the root issue from our end.
Re:AWS Announces Graviton 5 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @09:48AM (#46232039)
It's been open-source for 10+ years and the repo is linked in the top right of the site. Here's a link: https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info

We'd greatly appreciate contributions!

Re:AWS Announces Graviton 5 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:48AM (#46220022)
Founder of Vantage here and former AWS employee.

We actually recently made the decision to staff someone full time on the site just to maintain it for the community. Even the JSON file for the site gets hit hundreds of thousands of times per day...feels like it's become kind of the de-facto source of truth in the community for where to get reliable AWS pricing information and I believe its powering a pretty remarkable amount of downstream applications with how much usage its getting.

We acquired the site almost 5 years ago and want to continue to improve it for the community. If you have any cloud cost management needs, we're also able to help for our main business here: https://www.vantage.sh/

Awesome to see all the comments on it here!

Re:AWS Announces Graviton 5 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:43AM (#46219969)
[Not a sales pitch - just answering the questions]

This AWS EC2 site is just an open-source project and site we maintain for the benefit of the community. So it's not directly our business but it promotes our brand and is just a helpful site that I think should exist. It's very popular and has been around for about 15 years now.

Our main business hosted on the main domain of https://www.vantage.sh/ is around cloud cost management across 25 different providers (AWS, Azure, Datadog, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) and the use-cases there about carving up one bill and showing specific costs back to engineers for them to be held accountable to, take action on, etc. Cloud costs and their impact on companies' margins is a big enough problem for vendors like us to exist and we're one player in a larger market.

Re:AWS Announces Graviton 5 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:54AM (#46219201)
https://instances.vantage.sh/ recently added alerts for any pricing changes on EC2, including newly launching new instances. The site rebuilds every 4 hours so it usually breaks the pricing news first. I have it on for myself and its super helpful just to see when AWS changes things.

[Disclaimer, I'm CEO of Vantage - the company that maintains the site]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:33PM (#46113549)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers. We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Re:The $1k AWS Mistake on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:55AM (#45981849)
Evergreen relevant blog post: "Save by Using Anything Other Than a NAT Gateway" https://www.vantage.sh/blog/nat-gateway-vpc-endpoint-savings

Also as a shameless plug: Vantage covers this is exact type of cost hiccup. If you aren't already using it, we have a very generous free tier: https://www.vantage.sh/

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:46PM (#45869997)
Working on https://www.vantage.sh/

Specifically working on our FinOps agent which can identify and remediate cloud infa cost related issues across AWS, Azure, Datadog, etc. The agent lives in Slack and surfaces cost savings initiatives for teams to inspect and approve for the agent to fix.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:08PM (#45805577)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time

Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers. We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh/ here - I've been pretty impressed by the rate that repatriation is happening off of public cloud. It rarely ever came up and in the last year it's been popping up more and more -- and especially just for getting access to GPU workloads.

I thought there would be a greater unbundling to AWS or to cheaper providers but it seems like a good-sized portion of the market is just going back to managing their own hardware.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @08:31PM (#45563473)
Working on the Vantage FinOps Agent: https://www.vantage.sh/features/vantage-finops-agent

An agent that plugs into Slack and helps companies identify and remediate infrastructure cost-related issues.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025) on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @05:48PM (#45443937)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time

Vantage is a FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We also have a very significant set of work in progress for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers. We're a well funded Series A company and backed by a16z and Scale venture partners. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.

We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Re:Show HN: MCP for Ec2instances.info on Monday September 15, 2025 @03:22PM (#45253860)
We just launched an MCP for getting data from the dataset behind EC2instances.info. This includes both pricing as well as specification data from the site including:

- Hardware specs (CPU, memory, storage, networking) - Pricing (on-demand, reserved, etc) - Region availability - Instance-specific features (Graviton, NVMe, EFA)

Would appreciate feedback and thoughts on this as we're trying to get information to people via MCP to keep up with the times :)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025) on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:54PM (#45105723)
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time

Vantage is a FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We're a well funded Series A company and backed by a16z and Scale. The company is about 50 people today and scaling up quickly.

The company is headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).

Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Show HN: Ec2instances.info alerts for AWS pricing changes

:wave:Our team recently launched the ability for you to be alerted about AWS pricing changes for existing EC2 instances as well as alerts for new instances being launched and what their associated pricing is.We've had this on in the background for a few weeks and it's alerting for new instance types faster than AWS' blog posts hit. Also whenever anything changes for existing EC2 instances you...

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Re:Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:14PM (#44869536)
Look at the early days of AWS vs recent years. The fact that AWS services have been basically flat since 2019 in a high-inflation environment is actually pretty dang good on a relative basis.
Re:Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:39PM (#44867813)
I started https://www.vantage.sh/ - a cloud cost platform that tracks Infra & AI spend.

The $100k/dev/year figure feels like sticker shock math more than reality. Yes, AI bills are growing fast - but most teams I see are still spending substantially lower annually, and that's before applying even basic optimizations like prompt caching, model routing, or splitting work across models.

The real story is the AWS playbook all over again: vendors keep dropping unit costs, customers keep increasing consumption faster than prices fall, and in the end the bills still grow. If you’re not measuring it daily, the "marginal cost is trending down" narrative is meaningless - you’ll still get blindsided by scale.

I'm biased but the winners will be the ones who treat AI like any other cloud resource: ruthlessly measured, budgeted, and tuned.

Re:Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:56AM (#44683173)
The http://ec2instances.info/ of the LLM era ;)

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