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    The control plane for enterprise AI

    One control plane for all your enterprise AI.

    See every model call, govern who can use which models, attribute every dollar, and cap budgets in real time. Behest is the control plane for enterprise AI, so usage, spend, governance, and model access stay under control.

    Real-time visibility and control across production AI workloads

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    Who this is for

    Three problems. One control plane.

    Behest sits between your apps and your AI providers, so IT, engineering, finance, and security read from the same source of truth.

    CIO / CTO

    Your company is racing to adopt AI, and every team is calling providers on its own. You own the rollout, but usage, spend, and risk are sprawling out of your control.

    Centralize model access, enforce budgets and policy, attribute usage by team or application, and give your AI workloads a single controlled path to providers.

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    FinOps

    AI spend is growing across providers, applications, teams, and agents, but the invoice does not tell you what created the cost.

    Behest attributes spend to the workload and cost center that generated it and gives you enforceable budgets before the bill arrives.

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    CISO

    AI adoption is expanding faster than security teams can govern it.

    Behest puts model access, PII protection, prompt-injection defense, policy, and auditability directly into the AI request path.

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    Core capabilities

    One control plane for enterprise AI.

    Behest is the control plane for enterprise AI: one place to see every model call, attribute its cost to the right owner, enforce budgets and policy in real time, govern model access, and route workloads intelligently. AI Token FinOps is its cost-control layer.

    Four core capabilities work together: See usage, Control spend with AI Token FinOps, Govern access with AI Governance, and Optimize routing. Behest Radar extends visibility to supported AI activity on employee and developer machines (early access).

    The control plane

    What is an AI control plane?

    An AI control plane is a shared control layer for enterprise AI traffic, putting AI usage under visibility, cost attribution, budgets, governance, and smart routing across models, applications, teams, and workloads.

    Instead of scattering those controls across each app and provider, the enterprise routes its AI through one plane where cost and policy are observed and enforced in the same place.

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    The cost-control layer

    What is AI Token FinOps?

    AI Token FinOps is the cost-control layer of an enterprise AI control plane. It brings attribution, budgets, forecasting, and real-time enforcement down to the model-call level, so companies can understand and control AI spend before the provider invoice arrives.

    Behest combines AI Token FinOps with governance, model access, security controls, and routing in one platform.

    See how AI Token FinOps works →

    Product proof

    See the AI you control and the AI you don’t.

    Production applications are only part of enterprise AI usage. Developers use coding assistants. Employees use desktop AI tools. Agents create increasingly variable workloads.

    Behest gives you request-level visibility and control across production AI traffic. Behest Radar extends that visibility to supported AI activity happening directly on individual employee and developer endpoints (early access, per machine today).

    Model approvals, private-data scrubbing, prompt-attack defense, and per-session cost all land in one control plane, so security and finance read from the same record.

    Per-session cost
    Last 24h
    SessionUserModelTokensCost
    sess_8a2c…42bu_91f3Gemini 2.54,201$0.038
    sess_b1d4…77eu_27a8Claude 4.712,840$0.117
    sess_c9f2…1a3u_91f3GPT-58,415$0.084
    sess_d4e1…99cu_55b2Gemini 2.52,108$0.019
    Total27,564$0.258

    Sample data

    Questions

    Frequently asked

    The questions buyers ask first. For deeper technical or security questions, see the docs.

    What is Behest?
    Behest is the control plane for enterprise AI: one place to see AI usage across every model, application, team, and workload, attribute its cost to the right owner, enforce budgets and policy in real time, and govern how AI runs. AI Token FinOps is its cost-control layer.
    What is an enterprise AI control plane?
    An AI control plane is a shared control layer for enterprise AI traffic, putting AI usage under visibility, cost attribution, budgets, governance, and smart routing across models, applications, teams, and workloads. Behest is the control plane for enterprise AI. Read the full definition
    What is AI Token FinOps?
    AI Token FinOps is the cost-control layer of an enterprise AI control plane. It brings attribution, budgets, forecasting, and real-time enforcement down to the model-call level, so companies can understand and control AI spend before the provider invoice arrives.
    How is AI Token FinOps different from traditional FinOps?
    Traditional FinOps reconciles cloud bills after the fact: it tells you what you spent last month. AI Token FinOps works at the unit level, the token, in real time. Behest attributes every token to the user, project, and session that spent it, and blocks overruns on the request path before the provider invoice arrives.
    Can we enforce hard budgets on AI spend?
    Yes. Behest sits in the request path, allowing you to set hard token or dollar budgets per user, department, or tenant. If a request would exceed the budget, Behest blocks it instantly, preventing runaway costs before they ever hit your OpenAI or Anthropic invoice.
    How does Behest handle model access and governance?
    Each team gets an approved list of models it can use. Private data is removed before a prompt reaches the model, prompt attacks are screened on the way in, and every call is written to an audit record. AI Governance is included on the Enterprise plan. See AI Governance
    Can Behest see AI usage on employee and developer machines?
    Yes, for supported tools. Behest Radar runs on an individual employee or developer machine and shows the AI activity leaving it. It is in early access and observe-only: it does not block or cap anything, and there is no central fleet dashboard yet. Enforcement stays with the Behest control plane. Learn about Behest Radar
    Can Behest be self-hosted?
    Yes, as an option. Behest runs as SaaS in our cloud on every plan, with nothing for you to operate. On the Enterprise plan you can also self-host it in your own environment. When self-hosted, prompts, completions, and provider keys stay in your environment. Self-hosting is a choice, not a requirement.

    Looking for plans and tiers? See pricing.

    Put enterprise AI under control.

    See usage, enforce budgets and policy, govern model access, and understand what your production AI workloads are costing.

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