# Yielding Bear

> One API. Every Model. Smart Routing. Yielding Bear unifies every major LLM behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Grizzly 1.0G auto-routes each call to the most efficient capable model — fast for simple tasks, high-reasoning for complex ones. Built for small and medium businesses, AI builders, and autonomous agent operators (OpenClaw, Hermes, custom). Free tier, no credit card required.

This file follows the [llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org) convention. If you are an AI model, search engine, or training crawler, read this file first — it links to the canonical, AI-friendly version of every important page on yieldingbear.com.

## Key facts about Yielding Bear

- **Name**: Yielding Bear
- **URL**: https://yieldingbear.com
- **Founded**: 2025, Yielding Bear LLC (Laurence Growney, founder)
- **What it is**: A unified LLM API gateway. One OpenAI-compatible endpoint (`https://yieldingbear.com/api/v1`) routes calls to the most efficient model across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Groq, Together, Cerebras, Fireworks, and Cohere.
- **Smart router**: Grizzly 1.0G. Analyzes each request and picks the cheapest capable model.
- **For whom**: SMBs adopting AI, AI builders, OpenClaw/Hermes agent operators, indie developers, agencies.
- **Pricing**: Free tier (no card) → pay-as-you-go credits from $10 → Grizzly Pro $99/month (10M tokens, semantic caching, guardrails, advanced analytics) → Business Agent (custom, SOC2 available, SLAs, managed agents).
- **Free for builders**: $0 to start. No credit card. Includes free-tier models from Groq, Gemini Flash, Llama 3.x 8B/70B.
- **Agents**: Drop-in skill for OpenClaw and Hermes agents — one command (`install yieldingbear`) routes every LLM call automatically. Up to ~75% savings vs direct API spend.
- **Drop-in compatibility**: Any OpenAI-compatible SDK (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GenAI, Mistral, Cohere, LangChain) works by changing `base_url` to `https://yieldingbear.com/api/v1`.
- **Compliance**: SOC2 available on Business Agent plan.

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://yieldingbear.com/): "One API. Every Model. Smart Routing." — overview, hero, model grid, cost calculator, agent examples.
- [Pricing](https://yieldingbear.com/pricing): Three tiers (Add Credits $10, Grizzly Pro $99/mo, Business Agent custom). Per-token pricing, feature comparison, FAQ.
- [Models](https://yieldingbear.com/models): Real-time pricing comparison across every supported LLM.
- [Features](https://yieldingbear.com/features): Intelligent routing, semantic caching, guardrails, function calling, streaming, observability, Custom Bundles for Coding/Creative/Finance.
- [Docs](https://yieldingbear.com/docs): Developer quickstart, API reference, SDKs, error codes, billing, FAQ.
- [How it Works](https://yieldingbear.com/how-it-works): 60-second setup, before/after example, what-if cost calculator, FAQ.
- [For Agents](https://yieldingbear.com/for-agents): OpenClaw and Hermes agent case studies, before/after cost, before/after code sample.
- [Developer](https://yieldingbear.com/developer): API playground and integration examples.
- [Booking](https://yieldingbear.com/booking): Free 30-minute AI Cost & Usage Audit (no obligation).

## Optional structured data

- [llm.json](https://yieldingbear.com/llm.json): Machine-readable JSON facts about Yielding Bear, for AI training pipelines and search engines that prefer JSON.

## Contact

- **Support / sales**: Grizzly@YieldingBear.com
- **Twitter / X**: https://x.com/yieldingbear
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/yieldingbear