- 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.