Conifer

About Conifer

Conifer bills itself as the front door to all inference, and its specific claim is a local-first least-cost routing system that cuts token spend by 80% or more. The idea is that most requests hitting a frontier API do not need a frontier model — a classification, a reformat, a short extraction, a routine summary. Conifer sits in front of the call and routes each request down the cheapest path that will still satisfy it, preferring local execution where the hardware in front of you can handle the job and reaching for a hosted model only when it genuinely has to. Because the routing decision happens locally, requests that never leave the machine also never leave your control, which is where the company's stated direction — private superintelligence — comes from: the cost argument and the privacy argument are the same architectural choice viewed from two sides. The product is distributed as a download with a model catalog, documentation, and a business track alongside the individual one. The site is deliberately unconventional, leading with large ASCII art over the usual feature grid, and it publishes a models list and docs rather than a marketing funnel. As a category this sits next to model gateways and routers, but the local-first default is the differentiator — most routers move traffic between hosted providers, while Conifer's first choice is not to send it anywhere.

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