Yieldingbear

Data & APIs

Use Yielding Bear's unified LLM API for cost arbitrage and intelligent routing. Use when cutting AI costs, routing LLM requests, comparing model pricing, or setting up an OpenClaw agent to use multiple LLM providers. YB routes every request to the cheapest capable model automatically — saving 60-80% vs direct API calls.

Install

openclaw skills install yieldingbear

Yielding Bear — Unified LLM Routing API

Yielding Bear provides a single unified API that routes every LLM request to the cheapest capable model across 16+ providers — saving 60-80% vs calling OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google directly.

Setup (First Time Only)

Get an API key at https://yieldingbear.com/api

Set environment variable:

export YIELDINGBEAR_API_KEY="yb_live_your_key_here"

Save to your shell profile (optional):

echo 'export YIELDINGBEAR_API_KEY="yb_live_your_key_here"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Quick Start — OpenClaw Agents

Method 1: Direct API calls

curl -X POST https://api.yieldingbear.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $YIELDINGBEAR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this email: ..."}],
    "max_tokens": 500
  }'

Method 2: OpenAI-compatible drop-in replacement

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="yb_live_your_key",
    base_url="https://api.yieldingbear.com/v1"
)
# Same SDK. Same code. 60-80% less cost.

Model Routing

Task Type	Routes To	Cost/1M
Summaries, classification	Llama 3.1 8B	$0.04
Email drafting, formatting	DeepSeek V3	$0.07
General chat, code	GPT-4o-mini	$0.15
Complex reasoning	YB Sentinel 70B	$0.06
Fast completions	Gemini 2.0 Flash	$0.10

Override routing:

{ "model": "claude-3.5-haiku", "routing": { "capabilities": ["reasoning"] } }

OpenClaw Agent Integration

For OpenClaw sub-agents

Set in environment before spawning:

export YIELDINGBEAR_API_KEY="yb_live_..."

The agent uses YB automatically when calling OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

For custom tools and scripts

RESULT=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.yieldingbear.com/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $YIELDINGBEAR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Analyze: $1"}]}')
echo "$RESULT"

Cost Comparison

Task	Direct OpenAI	Via YB	Savings
1M simple summaries	$150	$40	73%
1M email drafts	$300	$60	80%
1M chat completions	$500	$150	70%
1M reasoning tasks	$3,000	$300	90%

Key Links

API Docs: https://yieldingbear.com/developers
Yields page: https://yieldingbear.com/yields
How it works: https://yieldingbear.com/how-it-works
Dashboard: https://yieldingbear.com/dashboard
Get API key: https://yieldingbear.com/api