Atlas operates as a swarm of autonomous background agents. Below is the master ledger of every third-party vendor currently wired into the Atlas Neural Control system, tracking exactly where your API credits are burning.
OpenRouter.ai
Highest Spend 🔥
The primary LLM routing service powering logical deduction.
- Content Brain: Runs
gemini-3-flashstandard for routine drafts. Modest usage. - Resonance Lab: Runs
claude-opus-4.6to deconstruct marketing psychology. Very expensive per-token. - Discovery Engine: Periodically queries standard models to identify macro-trends from hacker news titles. Very low usage.
Fal.ai
Medium Spend 💰
High-speed serverless infrastructure for generative media.
- Content Brain (Visuals): Generates the premium minimal typography plates using
fal-ai/flux-pro/v1.1. Billed strictly per-generation every time a draft clears the image synthesis stage.
Brave Search API
Effectively Free 🆓
Independent web, news, and image search API — no Google dependency.
- Discovery Engine: Queries Brave News and Web Search for live tech trends. Manual-only — only fires when you press the dashboard buttons.
- Free tier: $5 in free credits auto-applied monthly. A hard spending cap of $5 ensures the card is never charged.
Social & Scraping
Currently Free 🆓
Authentication infrastructure for pipeline execution.
- LinkedIn API: Posts directly to your timeline. Free unless you breach massive enterprise scale ceilings.
- Resonance Surveillance: Currently 100% free via local mock synthetic feeds.
- Warning: If you upgrade Surveillance to use Apify for real competitor tracking, expect a massive bill increase.