Cutback

Cut your AI costs. Keep your quality.

Cutback discovers AI calls, observes supported runtime usage, evaluates authorized alternatives, and prepares reviewable changes. Apache-2.0 includes the CLI, collector, PostgreSQL, worker, encrypted datasets and React dashboard. No corporate account or hosted service is required.

Pre-alpha, not production validated. Tests use synthetic provider responses. Real pilot traffic, representative quality validation, paid requests and production deployment remain explicit approval gates. See progress and limitations.

python -m pip install --pre cutback
cutback doctor --json
cutback scan /path/to/python/project --json
cutback opportunities --target /path/to/python/project

Scanning is offline and never executes the application. Historical tokens, spend, latency and quality remain unknown from source alone. Lower prices establish a candidate, not preserved quality or realized savings.

uv sync --locked --all-extras --dev
uv run python infra/compose/prepare.py
docker compose -f infra/compose/docker-compose.yml up -d --build
uv run python scripts/demo.py
uv run cutback dashboard --local

The demo uses synthetic inference and an actual local collector/database. Dashboard credentials are separate control keys held only in browser memory. Read deployment, evaluation, provider compatibility, and agent setup.

Extras: cutback[openai], [anthropic], [instrumentation], [server], [eval], [storage]. The scanner core contains no SDK, server or GPU dependencies. No calls home, implicit paid inference, automatic production patches or traffic changes.

Watch or reproduce the synthetic demo. Its data is explicitly labeled; it is not a customer benchmark.