---
type: entity
subtype: organization
title: "Abacus.AI"
description: "The AI company behind ChatLLM, offering a consolidated multi-model chat product with connectors to Teams, Jira, Confluence, Google Drive, and Slack."
resource: "https://abacus.ai"
tags: [organization, chat-interfaces, multi-model, model-selection]
videos: [stop-paying-for-gpt-claude-other-llms-get-them-all-in-one-place]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Abacus.AI

Abacus.AI is the company behind ChatLLM, a consolidated multi-model chat product that Cole pitches as the replacement for a drawer full of separate per-model subscriptions: "it's called chat llm and you literally pay $10 a month for a bunch of the best models and you basically never hit a rate limit" ([0:01:02]). Abacus.AI is not a frontier lab training its own models. Its product thesis is aggregation, putting one interface in front of [Claude 3.5 Sonnet](../tools/claude-3-5-sonnet.md), [GPT-4o](../tools/gpt-4o.md), [Llama](../tools/llama.md), [Gemini](../tools/gemini.md), and [o1](../tools/o1.md), which makes it a consumer-facing expression of [Model Selection](../../concepts/model-selection.md) and [LLM Cost Optimization](../../concepts/llm-cost-optimization.md).

What makes it interesting in Cole's tooling coverage is that consolidating costs nothing in capability. ChatLLM even unlocks a surface the first-party products gate: "it has artifacts like Claude does so you have that window that opens up on the right side where you can run your code" ([0:03:58]), and that panel works under GPT-4o, which ChatGPT itself does not allow. Web search, document and image attachment, video summarization, image-to-code, and explicit action buttons that steer the model toward a specific output round it out as a general-purpose [chat interface](../../concepts/chat-interfaces.md). It fills the gap left by dedicated coding tools like [bolt.new](../tools/bolt-new.md), [Cursor](../tools/cursor.md), and [Cline](../tools/cline.md), the moments when you need to reason through a problem rather than edit a codebase.

The second half of the pitch is the workspace, not the model. ChatLLM is team-based and wires into the systems work already lives in: "you can connect Abacus here chat llm to other platforms as well so if I click on messaging connectors and then go to platform connectors here" ([0:09:09]), reaching Teams, [Jira](../tools/jira.md), [Confluence](../tools/confluence.md), [Google Drive](../tools/google-drive.md), and [Slack](../tools/slack.md). That turns a model switcher into a shared knowledge surface, and it is why Abacus.AI shows up in Cole's [AI tech stack](../../concepts/ai-tech-stack.md) discussions as the chat tier rather than the build tier.

## Works with

- [Claude 3.5 Sonnet](../tools/claude-3-5-sonnet.md) - Anthropic's mid-2024 flagship model, one of the models ChatLLM exposes behind its single subscription.
- [GPT-4o](../tools/gpt-4o.md) - The more expensive, more powerful model to route complicated requests to in a cost-routing setup.
- [Gemini](../tools/gemini.md) - Google's LLM line, another of the top models bundled into the one interface.
- [Jira](../tools/jira.md) - Issue tracker reachable through ChatLLM's platform connectors.
- [Confluence](../tools/confluence.md) - Atlassian's team documentation wiki, another connector target.
- [Slack](../tools/slack.md) - Chat surface connected as both a source and a destination for the assistant.

## Contrasts with

- [OpenRouter](../tools/openrouter.md) - Unified API gateway to many LLMs; the developer-facing form of the same aggregation idea, where ChatLLM aggregates at the chat-UI layer instead.
- [OpenAI](./openai.md) - Maker of GPT-4o; one of the single-vendor subscriptions ChatLLM is pitched as replacing.
- [Anthropic](./anthropic.md) - Maker of Claude, whose artifacts feature ChatLLM reimplements across every model it hosts.

## Related

- [Model Selection](../../concepts/model-selection.md) - Choosing the right LLM per task by trading off quality, speed, and cost.
- [LLM Cost Optimization](../../concepts/llm-cost-optimization.md) - Systematically cutting the bill for running LLM applications at scale.
- [Chat Interfaces](../../concepts/chat-interfaces.md) - Wrapping agents in chat surfaces with adapters, a shared message format, and durable history.
- [Multi-Model Agents](../../concepts/multi-model-agent.md) - Running across more than one LLM to leverage each model's distinct strengths at runtime.
- [AI Tech Stack](../../concepts/ai-tech-stack.md) - Your chosen collection of tools and services combined into one working AI system.

## Sources

- [STOP Paying for GPT, Claude, & Other LLMs - Get them ALL in One Place](../../sources/stop-paying-for-gpt-claude-other-llms-get-them-all-in-one-place.md) - "[0:01:02] it's called chat llm and you literally pay $10 a month for a bunch of the best models and you basically never hit a rate limit"
- [STOP Paying for GPT, Claude, & Other LLMs - Get them ALL in One Place](../../sources/stop-paying-for-gpt-claude-other-llms-get-them-all-in-one-place.md) - "[0:03:58] it has artifacts like Claude does so you have that window that opens up on the right side where you can run your code"
- [STOP Paying for GPT, Claude, & Other LLMs - Get them ALL in One Place](../../sources/stop-paying-for-gpt-claude-other-llms-get-them-all-in-one-place.md) - "[0:09:09] you can connect Abacus here chat llm to other platforms as well so if I click on messaging connectors and then go to platform connectors here"
