Aster vs Ficelle

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Aster compared with Ficelle
Detail	Aster	Ficelle
What it does	Intelligent Auto Routing	OpenAI-compatible router that puts free LLM models from 13 providers behind one endpoint with automatic failover
Stage	Growing	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	FR
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
Pricing	aster-work: $0.40 input / $0.80 output per million tokens. aster-code: $0.80 input / $1.60 output per million tokens. No subscription or seat fees. Prepaid credits start at $5 with no expiry. Routing included in product rates.	Free: open core under BSL 1.1, no account or card required. Pro: 12 € monthly (or 9.08 € per month billed annually at 109 €/yr), or 199 € for Lifetime license (one payment, no renewals, limited to first 200). 14-day free trial for Pro requires a card.
Key features	Task-aware model routing Curated model collection	Automatic failover across 13 free LLM providers OpenAI-compatible API endpoint Model capability testing for tools, JSON and vision Hardcoded zero paid model fallback Local router with keys staying on your machine Model fusion and answer synthesis in Pro Custom virtual model profiles in Pro Native prompt compression to reduce tokens Automatic model cooling and recovery probing Support for Cursor, Continue, Open WebUI, LangChain and Claude Code
What makes it different	Reinforcement learning router trained on real task data 97.5% lower token cost vs frontier models Same product name regardless of underlying model	Structured inability to spend money on paid models, enforced in code not configuration No middleman: keys stay local, prompts go directly to providers Benchmarked quality parity with gpt-5 for classification, extraction and reasoning Millisecond failover when a model rate-limits or fails
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet −4 (down) since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	11	12
Referring domains (Majestic)	23	1

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