Govern LLM Spend Before It Reaches Provider Bills
Cloptima gives platform and finance teams one control plane for AI gateway policies, bring-your-own-key access, agent attribution, model pricing, and reconciliation-ready reporting.
Govern access before usage becomes spend
Approve providers, models, environments, and policy scopes before applications create material AI costs.
Replace provider-key sprawl with virtual keys
Give each app a governed access path while provider credentials stay protected behind policy.
Apply budget decisions in the request path
Use low-latency checks and durable usage records instead of waiting for delayed provider invoices.
Map model usage to real owners
Attribute spend by team, app, environment, customer, workflow, agent run, and product dimension.
Make agent costs explainable
Track sessions, retries, tool calls, and workflows so autonomous systems stay accountable.
Prepare finance for provider bill review
Contract pricing, commitments, credits, and invoice adjustments in one auditable ledger, previewed before approval.
Price guardrails, not just enable them
Cost-aware detection with a versioned, audited bypass path — plus exact and semantic response caching with observe-before-enforce.
Cut cost without cutting quality
Model downgrades, prompt changes, and cache-enforce decisions run through a dataset-backed eval before they ship, with canary rollout and rollback.
Supported Provider Surfaces and Model Vendors
Govern known model families with canonical policy names while still allowing exact policy strings for fine-tuned, custom, and newly released provider models.
Google Vertex AI
Managed Gemini and Model Garden partner models.
AWS Bedrock
Managed foundation models available through Bedrock.
OpenAI
Direct OpenAI-compatible provider access.
Azure OpenAI
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service deployments.
Anthropic
Direct Anthropic-compatible provider access.
Google AI (Gemini)
Direct Google AI Studio developer API.
Mistral AI
Direct Mistral AI platform models.
Cohere
Direct Cohere Command foundation models.
xAI (Grok)
Direct xAI Grok developer platform.
Groq
High-speed LPU inference engine for open models.
Together AI
Together AI open model server infrastructure.
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI production model platform.
OpenRouter
Unified router and model marketplace API.
DeepSeek
Direct DeepSeek V3 and R1 reasoning APIs.
Perplexity AI
Perplexity Sonar search and reasoning APIs.
Z.AI
Direct Z.AI GLM model access via api.z.ai.
Instrument Your Apps With the Cloptima SDKs
Want attribution without routing through the gateway? Drop in a lightweight SDK, keep your own provider client, and send usage with rich, custom attribution. First-class support for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go.
npm install @cloptima/llm-observability
pip install cloptima-llm-observability
go get github.com/cloptima/llm-observability-goimport { initFromEnv, extractOpenAIUsage } from "@cloptima/llm-observability";
const cloptima = initFromEnv();
await cloptima.observeCall({
provider: "openai",
model: "gpt-4.1-mini",
call: () => summaryService.generate(prompt),
extractUsage: extractOpenAIUsage,
featureId: "summary_generation",
workflowId: "support_agent",
// + team, environment, tenantId, costCenter, and custom metadata
});Telemetry posts to https://api.cloptima.ai/v1/ai/integrations/sdk/events. Missing config falls back to a disabled pass-through, so local dev and tests never break.
Explore the LLM FinOps Platform
Choose the area that matches your rollout: gateway governance, BYOK, budgets, analytics, bill review, unit economics, agents, shadow AI, or private gateway deployment.
AI Gateway for LLM FinOps
Route model traffic through an OpenAI-compatible gateway with virtual keys, budgets, attribution, provider access controls, no-retention prompt policy, and reconciliation-ready usage records.
Explore AI GatewayBYOK for Model Provider Access
Centralize OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Vertex AI, and Bedrock credentials behind encrypted controls while giving developers governed virtual-key access through Cloptima.
Explore BYOKLLM Budget Controls
Set model spend, token, and request limits by team, app, environment, user, key, provider, and agent workflow.
Explore BudgetsModel Spend Analytics
Analyze AI spend by provider, model, team, app, environment, user, session, run, and custom business dimensions.
Explore AnalyticsLLM Provider Bill Reconciliation
Compare gateway and telemetry usage against provider billing exports with reconciliation-ready cost records.
Explore ReconciliationAI Unit Economics
Measure LLM cost per customer, workspace, agent run, ticket, document, transaction, and product workflow.
Explore Unit EconomicsAI Agent Cost Controls
Track and govern agent sessions, retries, loops, tool calls, MCP workflows, and autonomous runs before they create runaway AI spend.
Explore AgentsShadow AI Discovery
Find unowned LLM usage, direct provider calls, and AI spend that is not mapped to teams, apps, or approved governance paths.
Explore Shadow AIPrivate LLM Edge Gateway
Run AI gateway enforcement closer to workloads with local or VPC deployment, locally encrypted credentials, and signed policy snapshots.
Explore Private GatewayLLM Guardrails and Guardrail Cost Governance
Detect prompt injection, jailbreaks, PII, and secrets in LLM traffic, and govern the cost of running those checks with policy-based bypass, approval workflows, and audit trails.
Explore GuardrailsExact Response Cache for LLM Requests
Serve identical, policy-approved LLM requests from cache instead of the provider, with observe and enforce modes, namespace isolation, and a blast-radius preview before you turn enforcement on.
Explore Exact CacheSemantic Search and Semantic Response Cache
Search across LLM traces, prompts, tools, and policy violations by meaning, and serve equivalent — not just identical — requests from a policy-gated semantic cache with eval-scored safety checks.
Explore Semantic SearchPrompt Registry, Datasets, and Eval-Gated Releases
Version prompts, manage evaluation datasets, run deterministic and LLM-as-judge evals, and gate model or prompt changes behind a passing eval score with canary rollout and rollback.
Explore Prompt & Eval RegistryContract Pricing and Enterprise Rate Overrides
Apply customer- or org-specific contract rates, commitments, and credits on top of list pricing, with a server-authoritative preview before approval and an immutable audit history behind every override.
Explore Contract PricingOnboarding Guides
Setup pages for provider connections, OpenAI-compatible gateway adoption, SDK attribution, OpenTelemetry ingest, and provider billing reconciliation.
OpenAI-Compatible AI Gateway for FinOps
How to adopt an OpenAI-compatible gateway for model governance, cost attribution, and budget controls without a large application rewrite.
Connect OpenAI Usage to Cloptima
Route OpenAI-compatible traffic through Cloptima for model access control, spend attribution, and budget enforcement.
Connect Anthropic Usage to Cloptima
Track and govern Anthropic usage with team attribution, model policies, and AI FinOps reporting in Cloptima.
Connect Gemini and Vertex AI Usage to Cloptima
Bring Gemini and Vertex AI spend into Cloptima for model analytics, budget controls, and cloud cost context.
Connect Amazon Bedrock Usage to Cloptima
Track and govern Amazon Bedrock model spend with Cloptima's AI FinOps and cloud ownership views.
LLM FinOps for Vercel AI SDK Apps
Add model spend attribution and gateway governance to Vercel AI SDK applications.
Compare AI FinOps Options
Cloptima vs LiteLLM
Compare Cloptima and LiteLLM for AI gateway governance, model spend analytics, LLM budgets, and AI FinOps workflows.
Cloptima vs Portkey
Compare Cloptima and Portkey for AI gateway operations, observability, guardrails, LLM budgets, and finance-facing AI spend management.
Cloptima vs Helicone
Compare Cloptima and Helicone for LLM observability, model spend reporting, budget controls, and AI FinOps workflows.
Cloptima vs Langfuse
Compare Cloptima and Langfuse for LLM observability, prompt engineering, model costs, and AI FinOps governance.
AI Gateway vs AI FinOps
Understand the difference between AI gateway operations and AI FinOps control planes for model spend governance.
Cloptima vs OpenRouter
Compare OpenRouter's unified multi-provider model access with Cloptima's AI FinOps control plane: governance, attribution, BYOK, reconciliation, and unit economics.
Cloptima vs Cloudflare AI Gateway
Compare Cloudflare AI Gateway's proxy features (caching, rate limiting, analytics) with Cloptima's AI FinOps control plane for governance, attribution, and reconciliation.
Solutions by Team
AI Spend Governance for Engineering Leaders
Give engineering leaders one operating model for LLM access, budget controls, ownership, and AI feature cost accountability.
LLM Chargeback and Showback
Allocate LLM spend to teams, apps, environments, customers, and product workflows with reconciliation-ready records.
AI Gateway Governance for Platform Teams
Give developers governed model access while platform teams manage provider credentials, virtual keys, model policies, budget limits, and audit trails.
AI Agent Cost Control
Track and control LLM spend from agent sessions, retries, loops, tools, and long-running autonomous workflows.
AI Margin Reporting
Connect LLM spend to customer, workflow, product, cloud, and Kubernetes cost context for better AI feature margin visibility.
Shadow AI Discovery for Governance Teams
Find unowned model usage and direct provider calls that bypass approved AI spend and access governance.
FAQ
Put LLM Spend Under the Same Discipline as Cloud Spend
Start with telemetry, governed gateway routing, or both. Keep model usage, ownership, and finance reporting in one operating model.