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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Token FinOps • Enterprise AI Governance
Stop runaway AI spend before the invoice arrives.
Behest is the enterprise Token FinOps platform. We give CFOs complete visibility to enforce hard budgets, attribute every AI dollar to specific cost centers, and master GenAI unit economics.
✓ 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
Token FinOps + AI Governance built into the request path. Other tools observe traffic or route requests. Behest operates the backend.
| Capability | Behest | Legacy Gateways | Basic Observability | Build your own | Direct LLM OpenAI, Anthropic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Partial | |||
| Self-hosted in your cloud | |||||
| Pass-through pricing (no token markup) | |||||
| AI Governance (model approval, audit trail) | Partial | Partial |
"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
Legacy gateways and basic observability tools observe traffic and route requests, with metadata-driven attribution and inline budget enforcement. Behest is the AI backend — multi-tenant auth, conversation memory, browser-direct CORS, and Token FinOps in the request path.
vs. Building Your Own
Token FinOps, AI Governance, PII Shield, Sentinel, multi-tenant auth, and observability take months to build well. Behest deploys in your cloud in hours via Helm.
vs. Direct LLM APIs
OpenAI and Anthropic provide the model. Behest provides everything between your apps and the model — cost attribution, governance, PII, prompt-injection defense, budgets, audit trail.
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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