cheapoS Where builders obsess over
cost per completed task.
cheapoS builders don’t read synthetic benchmarks. They run autonomous multi-agent coding swarms with API keys in hand, obsessively hunting for the highest intelligence at the lowest cost.
The Anti-Cheat Axiom: Zero Prized Games
Nothing motivates people to cheat more than money. The minute a platform offers cash prizes, bounties, or paid rank manipulation, adversarial gaming explodes: sybil accounts, forged receipts, mock token counters, and synthetic spam.
To preserve the Cheapskate Club as the most trustworthy, credible benchmark in AI:
- Rankings are 100% unbuyable: No amount of sponsorship money can buy a leaderboard spot or alter community attestation scores.
- No cash prize pools: Members compete for pure developer status, peer recognition, and unforgeable bragging rights.
- Sponsorship value is authentic: Providers sponsor the club to demonstrate legitimate price-performance, distribute developer trial credits, and earn verified task receipts from real builders.
Simple, transparent partnership tiers.
Zero enterprise sales friction. Book a monthly package and place your technology directly into the hands of autonomous agent builders.
Model of the Month Spotlight
For inference providers and model labs who want developers actively plugging their API keys into autonomous coding agents.
- Hero spotlight card on Homepage and Observatory (/engine)
- Featured badge and model filter pill on the Leaderboard
- 1-Click configuration recipe in cheapoS onboarding docs
- Community trial credit distribution (give $5–$10 in tokens to active builders)
- Monthly verified task case study featured on X / Twitter (@cheapoS)
- Zero-fluff social proof: real agent runs proving your low cost per completed task
The Frugal Stack Directory
For developer tools, serverless DBs, and lean hosting providers who align with our anti-waste, small-bill philosophy.
- Permanent placement in our curated /tools directory
- Featured badge: 'Verified Frugal Tool'
- Direct referral link and promotional perk code for members
- Inclusion in the Cheapskate Club newsletter and monthly roundup
The Tightwad Patron
For individual developers who love the cheapoS ethos and want to help cover Supabase & Vercel hosting costs.
- Exclusive '🪙 Tightwad Patron' badge on your public profile card
- Bragging rights in the club directory and Discord/X
- The warm feeling of keeping a non-commercial open-source benchmark alive
Curated infrastructure for high-efficiency builders.
These are the budget-conscious APIs, hosting platforms, and databases that make low-cost agent workflows possible.
Groq Cloud
Ultra-fast LPU inference with generous free-tier quotas and penny-fraction pricing.
Cerebras Inference
Wafer-scale engine delivering 2,000+ tokens/sec on Llama models for fractions of a cent.
DeepSeek API
Frontier reasoning and coding capabilities at 1/10th the cost of legacy models.
Supabase
Generous Postgres, Auth, and Storage free tier powering the Cheapskate Club backend.
Cloudflare Workers AI
Serverless edge compute and serverless AI inference on Cloudflare global network.
Ready to power the next million cheapoS tasks?
Tell us about your model or tool. We’ll get your config recipe and trial credits live on the club within 24 hours.