Cut Your AI API Spend by 70%. Drop Latency by 50%.
TALON is a sub-10ms drop-in proxy that dynamically routes simple prompts to local SLMs, strips context bloat, and reserves frontier models like Claude 3.5 & GPT-4o only when high reasoning is required.
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1import talon2 3client = talon.Client(api_key="tl_live_...") # 2-line drop-in replacementSub-10ms
Pre-Inference ONNX Classification
KEEL Core Rust proxy classifies intent before a single token is billed.
70% Cost Cut
Automatic SLM Cascading & Token Strip-Mining
Simple prompts land on local SLMs; duplicate system context is pruned in flight.
99.99% Reliability
Automatic Fallback Circuit Breaker
Deterministic schema retries and provider failover with no dropped requests.
Savings & Latency Calculator
Move the sliders to model what cognitive routing recovers from your current inference bill.
Input parameters
Estimates model KEEL Core cascading plus context strip-mining across a mixed production traffic profile. Actual routing gains scale with prompt redundancy.
Live projection
$10,981
61% reduction on $18,000/mo
1.8s0.9sTTFT(-48%)
Estimated based on mixed production agent workloads.
$131,769
Five stages between your request and the right model
KEEL Core is a Rust proxy that decides where a prompt belongs before you pay frontier prices for it.
02 · KEEL Core
Sub-10ms Heuristic & ONNX Classifier
A quantized ONNX intent classifier running inside the Rust proxy scores reasoning depth, tool-use likelihood, and safety class before a single token is billed.
TALON vs. the alternatives
Measured across a mixed agent workload of 4.1M production requests.
| Feature | Raw GPT-4o | Standard Proxies | TALON AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| P99 Overhead | n/a (direct) | 40–120ms | < 10ms |
| Token Cost Efficiency | Baseline (100%) | ~95% | 30% of baseline (70% savings) |
| Context Pruning | No | Partial | Yes |
| Automatic Schema Fallback | No | No | Yes |
| Self-Hosted VPC Support | No | Partial | Yes |
Stop Paying Top-Tier Prices for Basic String Utilities.
Route intelligently, prune aggressively, and reserve frontier reasoning for the requests that actually need it. Two lines of code, sub-10ms overhead.