CFO
Burning hundreds of thousands in AI tokens but don't know where they're going? Surprised by your AI token usage?
Plan and financially forecast your AI usage with complete visibility and control.
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Enterprise AI FinOps
Make AI spend visible, predictable, and accountable.
Full visibility into GenAI usage — set budgets, attribute costs to teams, and turn AI from a runaway expense into a managed line item.
✓ Includes employee token usage tracking
Who this is for
Three problems. One control plane.
Behest sits between your apps and your LLM providers — so finance, IT, and security read from the same source of truth.
CIO
Your company is actively adopting AI, but you are losing control over usage. AI spend isn't allocated back to the business units.
Lock down AI usage by departments, apps, or users. Enterprise control with budgets, enforcement, and chargebacks.
Learn moreCISO
AI Governance — model approval, EU AI Act, prompt audit trail — is unowned.
Governance built into the request path: PII Shield, Sentinel, audit trail.
Learn moreWhat Behest does
Three pillars. One solution.
AI Backend to ship (Add AI to Your App), Token FinOps for spend (learn more), and AI Governance for risk (learn more) — eight capabilities delivered as one control plane.
- CFO + AI Eng
Session-level token visibility
See what each session is costing you. Per-request capture with model, tokens, cost, user, and project — attributable to the session that drove it.
- CIO
Lock down AI usage by departments or users
Enterprise control with identity, budgets, and enforcement. Per-tenant, per-project, per-user attribution.
- CFO + CIO
Govern how your teams use AI tokens
Plan and financially forecast your AI usage. Daily and monthly caps at the global, tenant, and project level. Stop overruns before the invoice lands.
- CFO
Pass-through pricing. No token markup.
Behest's SaaS license is a fixed line item. LLM-provider tokens flow through at provider cost — BYOK customers pay their LLM provider directly.
- CISO
Governance built into the request path
Sentinel blocks prompt-injection attempts. PII Shield scrubs sensitive data before the LLM sees it. Every request gets an audit trail.
- CISO
Tenant-level model allowlists
Customer admins control which models each tenant can call. Approve, deprecate, or scope models without redeploying the application.
- CIO + CISO
Self-hosted in your cloud
Helm chart for GKE, EKS, or bare Kubernetes. Prompts and completions never leave your VPC. Your KMS, your egress, your backup policy.
- AI Engineer
Browser-callable AI
Per-project CORS configuration with preflight handling. Call from your frontend, no backend proxy needed.
The wedge
Complete AI usage visibility.
We give you a clear picture of where you are spending your tokens. Surprised by your AI token usage? Govern how your teams use AI tokens and lock down usage by departments or users.
Every Behest call carries a session ID. Conversation Memory persists state per user-session pair. Usage Analytics joins them with token cost — so a runaway agent shows up as a row, not a quarter-end surprise.
Model allowlists, PII scrubbing, and Sentinel pair with session attribution — one gateway for CFO and CISO KPIs.
Per-session cost
Last 24h| Session | User | Model | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sess_8a2c…42b | u_91f3 | Gemini 2.5 | 4,201 | $0.038 |
| sess_b1d4…77e | u_27a8 | Claude 4.7 | 12,840 | $0.117 |
| sess_c9f2…1a3 | u_91f3 | GPT-5 | 8,415 | $0.084 |
| sess_d4e1…99c | u_55b2 | Gemini 2.5 | 2,108 | $0.019 |
| Total | 27,564 | $0.258 | ||
Sample data
Zero token markup.
Bring your own keys. You pay your LLM providers directly for tokens. Behest charges a flat SaaS license — a predictable line item, never a percentage of your spend.
Behest vs. the alternatives
Behest shows exactly what every employee does with AI and enforces controls in real time. Legacy tools report after the fact.
| Capability | Behest | Legacy Gateways | Legacy FinOps | Build your own | Direct LLM OpenAI, Anthropic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employee-level usage tracking | |||||
| Exact usage classification (team, project, cost center) | Partial | Partial | |||
| Real-time spend controls (hard budgets, kill switches) | |||||
| Per-session cost attribution | Partial | ||||
| CIO chargeback (per-cost-center allocation) | Partial | Partial | Partial | ||
| Token budgets enforced inline | |||||
| PII redaction pre-LLM | Partial | ||||
| Prompt-injection defense | Partial | ||||
| AI Governance (model approval, audit trail) | |||||
| Easy setup & key management (no per-user API keys) | |||||
| Self-hosted in your cloud | |||||
| Pass-through pricing (no token markup) |
"Partial" indicates the capability exists in a narrower form (e.g., metadata-based attribution without cost-center hierarchy, or provider-restricted prompt-injection coverage). "?" indicates the capability is not documented in publicly available materials at the verification date. "n/a" means the capability does not apply to that category.
vs. Legacy AI Gateways
Gateways route requests and tag metadata, but they can't tell you which employee made which call or classify usage beyond key-level labels. Behest tracks every request to the person and team that made it.
vs. Legacy FinOps
Traditional FinOps tools like CloudHealth and Kubecost report cloud spend after the fact. They can't enforce budgets inline, track individual employee AI usage, or classify tokens by project and cost center in real time.
vs. Building Your Own
Employee-level tracking, cost-center attribution, PII Shield, Sentinel, and AI Governance take months to build well. Behest deploys in your cloud in hours via Helm — with all of it included.
Questions
Frequently asked
The questions buyers ask first. For deeper technical or security questions, see the docs.
Stop guessing what your AI spend looks like.
Put AI under the same budget discipline as the rest of your operating expenses — without slowing the teams shipping with it.
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