AI router wars escalate: Straitly pays developers 5-10% cashback on agent tokens
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-10
Scobleizer on the escalating AI router competition: startup Straitly now pays developers cashback on token usage — 5% on closed-source models, 10% on open-source — claiming 177 models, up to 25% savings vs OpenRouter (5.5% fee) or Vercel (2.9% fee), and 150B tokens processed in 3 weeks. His key insight: like grocery loyalty cards, but the shopper is an agent that price-shops thousands of times a day — routers are now fighting to be the card in your agent's wallet, not over fees.
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