Meridian
One gateway for OpenAI and Anthropic. Less cost, less risk.
Overview
Meridian sits between your applications and AI providers. It checks each caller's key, limits, and budget, picks a provider with fallback, redacts personal data, caches where safe, and records the cost of every request.
Existing OpenAI and Anthropic SDK code — and Claude Code — works by changing the base URL and the key.
Open for demo: request access at app.sdwares.com. Approved workspaces start with free trial credit, then bring their own provider keys.
Key Features
Drop-In API
OpenAI Chat Completions, the native Anthropic Messages API, embeddings, and an MCP server for Claude Desktop and other MCP clients.
Budgets That Hold
Monthly budget per project, with cost reserved before each call so parallel requests can't overshoot. Email alerts at 80% and 100%.
Failover & Aliases
Model aliases route one name across providers. Retries with backoff and a circuit breaker per provider and model.
Exact & Semantic Cache
Exact-match cache for deterministic requests, optional semantic cache for similar ones. Both switchable per project.
PII Redaction & BYOK
Personal data redacted before it reaches a provider, streams included. Bring your own keys, envelope-encrypted with Azure Key Vault.
Self-Service Portal
Organizations, projects, keys, team roles, usage charts, request and audit logs, and a "what if" simulator that reprices your traffic on every model.
Architecture
Key Decisions
- →Container Apps over Kubernetes — no cluster to run; trade some control for a much smaller ops surface
- →In-process format translation — no extra network hop; native Anthropic pass-through for full fidelity
- →Cookie sessions, static dashboard — the browser never holds a token, and the dashboard needs no server
- →Cost reservations — budgets and trial credit hold under parallel load
- →Expand-only migrations — run before each rollout, so the previous revision always keeps working
Interested in AI infrastructure
for your team?
Try Meridian in the demo, or let's talk about something purpose-built for your organization.
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