Spend control for model APIs

The budget should win the argument.

Subscriptions, credentials, token quotas, and request rates in one workspace. Teams keep shipping. Finance stops guessing. Over-limit traffic never leaves the edge.

$2.4Mover-spend blocked this quarter
48endpoint types under one policy
11msmedian overlay latency
Frontier chatFast inferenceEmbeddingsVisionSpeechBatch jobsLong contextOpen weightsRegional pinPrompt cacheTool callingEval traffic Frontier chatFast inferenceEmbeddingsVisionSpeechBatch jobsLong contextOpen weightsRegional pinPrompt cacheTool callingEval traffic

Why the switch

Policy travels with the request.

Seats, keys, and invoices usually live in separate consoles. Ai-Limi sits in front: one rule set, every endpoint, enforced before a token is billed.

HARD CAPS

Stop a runaway loop before it spends the month.

Ceilings at workspace, team, key, and model. When an agent starts burning, we can warn, throttle, step down to a cheaper model, or refuse the call with a typed error.

  • Nightly research agent blocked 142k tok
  • Support copilot · EU 92% of daily cap
  • Eval suite · staging stepped to small
ROUTING

Pick the cheapest model that still qualifies.

Fallbacks by latency, cost, or quality. If the primary lane is saturated, traffic moves — without rewriting the app.

KEYS

Apps get a key. The real secrets stay vaulted.

Issue scoped credentials with an expiry. Revoke in one click. Nobody pastes an upstream secret into a config file again.

Minute-level burn-down

Spend, tokens, and request rates as they happen. Alerts fire before you hit the line, not after the statement closes.

A ledger, not a scavenger hunt

Every call records who, which key, which model, a prompt hash, and cost. Export to the warehouse you already run.

How it works

Proxy, policy, proof.

01

Send traffic through Ai-Limi

A drop-in chat completions endpoint. Keep your client libraries. We terminate TLS, check the virtual key, and stamp a trace id.

02

Evaluate the ceiling

Budgets, request rates, token rates, region, and allowlists run in under 3ms. Over-limit calls never reach the upstream model.

03

Route, meter, notify

We choose a lane, stream the answer, and write cost to the ledger. The same number shows up for engineering and finance.

From the floor

The statement stopped being a plot twist.

“Scoped keys for outside contractors were the unlock. They ship. We sleep.”

Jules Okonkwo · Head of Applied ML

“Rate-limit storms used to page the on-call. Now they page the agent that caused them.”

Priya Shah · Site reliability

Get a ceiling this week

The next invoice does not have to be a thriller.