AI Cost Governance

Stop shadow AI from
burning your budget

Token budgets per tenant. Semantic caching that saves 40%+. Per-team cost analytics. Know exactly who's spending what on which models.

The cost control gap

Most companies discover their AI spending problem too late.

Shadow AI spend

Teams calling LLM APIs directly with no governance. A runaway prompt loop burns $50K over a weekend.

No cost attribution

Finance asks "how much are we spending on AI?" and nobody can answer by team or project.

Repeated prompts

40% of LLM calls are semantically identical. You're paying full price for cached answers.

How gatez solves it

AI cost control built into the gateway layer.

1

Per-tenant token budgets

Pre-request check in Redis. Budget alert at 80%. Hard block at 100%. No overruns.

2

Semantic caching

Two-tier: Redis exact match + Qdrant similarity. 599 req/s on cache-hit path. 40%+ savings proven.

3

Per-model cost tracking

ClickHouse logs every token. Prompt vs completion split. Cost per provider. CSV export for finance.

4

Multi-model routing

Route to cheapest model for simple tasks, best model for complex ones. Fallback chains when providers fail.

5

Budget alerts

Notification at 80% threshold. Projected exhaustion date. Per-tenant dashboards. Catch burn rate spikes before month-end.

6

Usage analytics

Per-tenant, per-model, per-route breakdowns. Time-series charts. Drill into spikes. CSV export for billing systems.

Real-world example

How Synthara AI routes 2k req/s with cost control.

Synthara AI — AI coding assistant

Synthara routes 2k req/s across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini through gatez.

  • Default model: gpt-4o-mini (cheapest, fastest)
  • Complex tasks: claude-sonnet (best for code generation)
  • Fallback: gemini-flash (if OpenAI/Anthropic down)

Results after 1 month

46%
Cache hit rate
$347
Saved from caching
1
Budget spike caught

When staging burned 3x normal tokens, the alert caught it before month-end. Token budgets per team prevent surprises.

Stop paying for repeated prompts

Deploy gatez in 5 minutes. Start tracking every token, every model, every tenant.

Free forever. Apache 2.0 license. No credit card required.