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Ficelle compared with AcruxCore
DetailFicelle logo FicelleAcruxCore logo AcruxCore
What it doesOpenAI-compatible router that puts free LLM models from 13 providers behind one endpoint with automatic failover Open-source LLMOps platform for engineering teams
StageNot given MVP
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inFR Not given
Pricing modelFreemium Open source
PricingFree: 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. Free during beta. Self-hosted is free under Apache 2.0 license. Enterprise options available on request.
Key features
  • 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
  • Prompt versioning with named aliases and diffs
  • Server-side prompt templating with conditionals and loops
  • OpenAI-compatible AI gateway with automatic model fallbacks
  • Virtual keys, budgets and per-key rate limits
  • LLM tracing through the gateway or over OpenTelemetry
  • Versioned tool catalog for function calling
  • Offline experiments and online evaluation rules
  • Prompt optimization with candidate rewrites
  • Team-wide audit trail of every change
  • MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor
What makes it different
  • 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
  • Change prompts without a deploy by moving production alias
  • OpenAI-compatible drop-in gateway keeping existing code paths intact
  • Every call is automatically traced with model, tokens, latency and cost
  • Audit trail records every change with the person who made it
  • Open source Apache 2.0 license with self-hosting option
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet no change since last check12 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)012
Citation Flow (Majestic)1233
Referring domains (Majestic)149

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