Inference arrives as one invoice line per provider. Nobody can attribute it to a team, an application or a customer — so nobody can govern it. Underneath that opacity sit three compounding costs: spend you can't explain, spend you didn't need, and prompts you can't prove were safe.
Provider invoices arrive as a single monthly line. Without per-request attribution there is no budget owner, no forecast and no chargeback — only a number that grows.
Teams hardcode the strongest model during prototyping and never revisit it. Identical prompts are re-billed instead of cached. The waste is invisible, so it compounds quietly.
Customer names, account numbers and national IDs are pasted into prompts and sent to third-party providers. Prompts are data egress, and they are the least governed channel in the enterprise.
Change one base URL. Your applications keep the OpenAI-compatible calls they already make.
Redaction happens before egress, on your infrastructure. Prompts are never retained by us, because they never reach us.
Swap one base URL. No SDK change, no rewrite.
Your provider contracts and rates stay yours.
Automatic retry on a second provider when one degrades.
Route sensitive workloads to on-premise weights.
Redaction and routing rules reviewed in your repo.
Replay last month against a new routing policy.
Okta, Entra ID, and automated deprovisioning.
Streams to your SIEM in real time.
A two-week shadow deployment reads your live traffic and reports what routing and caching would have saved — with no change to your applications.