Cut AI costs by 70% with smart prompt optimization and caching
Small business owners struggle with high, accumulating costs of AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney that strain limited budgets without delivering proportional ROI.
SlimGPT analyzes and rewrites your prompts to use fewer tokens, caches frequent responses, and batches similar requests to minimize API calls to tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney. Small businesses connect their API keys once, set budgets, and get the same quality outputs at a fraction of the cost. It provides a simple dashboard to track savings and usage.
Small business owners with limited budgets relying on AI tools for operations
AI-powered prompt compressor that guarantees 50-70% token reduction via proprietary optimization algorithms, unlike generic trackers.
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Automatically rewrites prompts to minimize token usage while preserving output quality
Stores and reuses AI responses for similar queries to avoid repeat API calls
Real-time tracking of API spend, savings metrics, and cost forecasts
Email/Slack notifications when approaching spend limits
Unified endpoint to route requests through SlimGPT optimizations
Queue and batch multiple requests for efficiency
Integrate ChatGPT, Midjourney, Claude simultaneously
Save and share optimized prompt templates
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| api_keys | jsonb | Yes |
| monthly_budget | int | No |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| tokens_used | int | No |
| cost_saved | int | No |
| provider | text | No |
| timestamp | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| prompt_hash | text | No |
| response | text | No |
| expires_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
/api/optimize-promptOptimize user prompt and return compressed version
/api/generateProxy AI request through optimizations and cache
/api/usageFetch user's usage stats and savings
/api/budgetUpdate user's monthly budget
100 requests/month
None
5 users
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 200 | 5% | $250 | $3,000 |
| Month 6 | 1,200 | 8% | $1,920 | $23,040 |
SlimGPT optimizes prompts, caches responses, and tracks spend so small businesses get enterprise AI power on a shoestring budget.
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Detailed analytics
No optimization or caching
Active cost reduction vs passive tracking
Prompt management
Expensive, no caching
Cheaper with token compression
Proprietary prompt optimization ML model trained on usage data
AI costs exploding post-GPT-4o, small biz adoption surging but budgets tight in 2024 recession fears
Prompt optimization degrades quality
A/B testing with user feedback loop
Users prefer direct API control
Transparent proxy with opt-out
API provider changes break integrations
Abstraction layers and monitoring
Success: 80% confirm pain >$50/mo
Success: Avg 40% cost reduction
Success: 5% conversion
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