Looking for an Edgee alternative?
The Distillery reduces token costs locally. No prompts leave your machine.
Why developers look for alternatives
Edgee compresses token payloads by routing them through its cloud servers. That means your prompts, code context, and tool results pass through third-party infrastructure before reaching Anthropic.
The Distillery takes the opposite approach: it runs entirely on your machine, deduplicating context before the API call is made. Nothing is forwarded to a third-party proxy.
No fee markup on your API calls
Edgee charges a 5% fee on top of Anthropic API costs when using managed keys. The Distillery never marks up API calls — you pay Anthropic directly and only pay The Distillery a percentage of what it saves you.
On the Team plan, Edgee charges $29 per user per month regardless of how much you save. The Distillery is free below €20/month in savings.
Reproducible savings
Real-world savings range from 30-60% depending on session patterns; the conservative deterministic floor is 20% (reproducible via npx tsx scripts/benchmark.ts).
Edgee claims up to 50% cost reduction but publishes no reproducible benchmark methodology. The Distillery's savings are verifiable before you commit to a plan.
Want a head-to-head? See the full side-by-side comparison with Edgee.
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