Aster vs Tein

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Aster compared with Tein
Detail	Aster	Tein
What it does	Intelligent Auto Routing	An API combining image, video, audio and language models below market price
Stage	Growing	MVP
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	CA
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
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.	Not given
Key features	Task-aware model routing Curated model collection	Image generation models Video generation models Audio generation models Large language models Web playground interface API access at api.tein.ai Prepaid credit system Creative mode for broader creative range Web dashboards Model catalog access
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	Pricing below market rate Single unified API for multiple model types Independent by design User data not used for training
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	22
Referring domains (Majestic)	23	15

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