frugal — model routing for AI coding agents

Every prompt is classified and steered to the cheapest capable model. Trivial questions never burn frontier tokens. Design work escalates only when it earns it. Local-first, fail-open, and it shows its work.

After checkout your license key is shown on the success page — keep it safe, we store only a hash and can't recover it.

Install

curl -fsSL https://frugalplugin.com/install.sh | sh
frugal setup        # detects Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Devin, wires itself
frugal activate frugal_…   # your key from checkout

How it works

prompt → frugal hook → local heuristics (decisive? done — no network)
                     → ambiguous only → hosted Jev verdict
                     → silent when fine · named advice on mismatch

See what it did

frugal log      # human-readable trace of every prompt
frugal stats    # estimated + metered savings
frugal doctor   # is it working? one-shot answer

In-session: /frugal status · /frugal stats · frugal: use sonnet

privacy & terms — local-first: most prompts never leave your machine