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Why the same compute sells at two prices, and what to build instead. The docs are next door.

SOBA 001 ONE BASE URL

Engineering 6 min read

Let your users bring their own Claude or ChatGPT plan

What it actually takes to run an agent on compute your user already pays for: the routing, the permissions, the metering, and why the call site should never know which side it landed on.

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The unit economics of an AI app, written out

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SOBA 003 THE GAP

Economics

Two prices for the same compute

A Claude Pro plan and an Anthropic API key buy inference from the same lab, on the same GPUs, at prices that are not close to each other. Almost every AI product is built on the expensive one.

Stop buying tokens
your users already own.

Point your OpenAI client at one base URL. Soba prices the plan, routes the run, and bills the user at your rate.

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