- What is Behest?
- Behest is the control plane for enterprise AI. It gives you visibility into how your organization uses AI, including shadow AI on employee and developer machines through Behest Radar, and control over it: model calls that run through Behest get cost attribution, budgets, policy, model access, and cost-aware routing. AI Token FinOps is its cost-control layer.
- How does Behest find shadow AI?
- Behest Radar, a free download built on Behest's own on-device discovery engine, recognizes the apps, agents, and local models on a machine that connect to known AI services, including tools nobody approved. It observes only and never blocks anything. Connect machines to Behest Control and their Radar data rolls up into one AI posture for your organization. See shadow AI discovery
- What is an AI posture?
- Your AI posture is one view of how your organization uses AI: who uses it, which tools, how much is unapproved, what it is for, and where the money goes. Behest Control builds it from Behest Radar, model calls that run through Behest, and your connected Anthropic bill.
- 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.
- 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 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.