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pricing

We never
send you
an invoice.

Hydra is open source. You bring your own keys and pay the model providers directly, Hydra just makes that bill 70-85% smaller. Our cut of it is, and always will be, zero.

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↓ so what do you pay?
the only billgoes to the models, and Hydra shrinks it

Move the slider. Watch what we take.

Route everything through a frontier model and you pay frontier prices on every task. Hydra sends each task to the cheapest head that clears the bar, most land on free local models. Whatever you were going to spend, Hydra's fee stays pinned at zero.

your monthly spend, everything → frontier$1,000
$100$1,000$10,000
frontier-only bill
$1,000
the naive way, one expensive model for everything
with Hydra · to providers
$200
cheapest head that clears the bar · free local floor
you keep
$800
back in your pocket, every month
Hydra's fee $0.00 always, it never moves

Illustrative at ~80% routing efficiency (a typical coding session where most tasks are simple/standard). Your real numbers come from hyctl stats.

free foreverwhat "free" actually means here

No asterisks.

✓No subscription, no seats. Install it on every machine you own.
✓No usage limits. Hydra never meters dispatches, providers do their own billing.
✓No telemetry. Routing, cost logs, and calibration stay on your machine.
✓No lock-in. Provider-neutral by design, swap heads, go fully local, leave anytime.
✓Open to inspect. The source is public, see exactly how every routing and policy decision is made.
✓A $0 path always exists. With Ollama the terminal fallback is a free local model.
the one thing that isn't free

Want Hydra customised,or built out for your stack?

A routing policy shaped around your models. A trust ledger wired into your systems. A private, on-prem deployment. Capabilities only your team needs. The open-source Hydra stays free and complete: this isn't a paid tier, it's the bespoke build we take on with you.

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