See every model call, govern who can use which models, attribute every dollar, and cap budgets in real time — the AI Token FinOps platform for teams that need AI under control, not just observed.
✓ Real-time visibility into shadow AI across your org
Who this is for
Behest sits between your apps and your AI providers — so IT, engineering, finance, and security read from the same source of truth.
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.
One control plane for every model call: cap budgets on the request path, attribute every dollar by team, app, or user, run chargebacks, and govern it all — without building the AI backend yourself.
Learn moreBurning hundreds of thousands in AI tokens but don't know where they're going? Surprised by your AI token usage?
Plan and forecast AI spend from the attribution your platform team's control plane already produces — every dollar tied to a cost center.
Learn moreAI Governance — model approval, EU AI Act, prompt audit trail — is unowned.
Governance built into the request path: PII Shield, Sentinel, audit trail.
Learn moreThe short version
Behest is the enterprise AI Token FinOps platform — the control plane for your AI costs. It tracks every model call, attributes each cost to the team behind it, and enforces budgets in real time, so AI costs stay predictable before the bill arrives.
The category
AI Token FinOps is the control plane for your AI spend: tracking, allocating, and controlling AI Token budget at the unit level. It brings the rigor companies already apply to cloud costs — attribution, budgets, forecasting — down to every model call, so AI cost becomes visible and predictable before the invoice arrives.
Put simply: AI Token FinOps is FinOps for AI applied at the token and request level — the enforcement layer of AI FinOps, and Behest’s approach to token economics (tokenomics).
What Behest does
Behest is the enterprise AI Token FinOps platform — it puts every model call under cost control, with AI Governance for risk (learn more) and an AI Backend (Add AI to Your App) built in — eight capabilities delivered as one control plane.
Enterprise control with identity, budgets, and enforcement. Per-tenant, per-project, per-user attribution.
Plan and financially forecast your AI usage. Daily and monthly caps at the global, tenant, and project level. Stop overruns before the invoice lands — and smart routing adds direct savings, up to ~30% lower AI costs depending on use case.
See what each session is costing you. Per-request capture with model, tokens, cost, user, and project — attributable to the session that drove it.
Run as SaaS in Behest's cloud, or deploy the Helm chart to GKE, EKS, or bare Kubernetes. With the self-hosted option, prompts and completions are processed in your VPC — your KMS, your egress, your backup policy.
Sentinel blocks prompt-injection attempts. PII Shield scrubs sensitive data before the LLM sees it. Every request gets an audit trail.
Customer admins control which models each tenant can call. Approve, deprecate, or scope models without redeploying the application.
Behest's SaaS license is a fixed line item. LLM-provider tokens flow through at provider cost — BYOK customers pay their LLM provider directly.
Per-project CORS configuration with preflight handling. Call from your frontend, no backend proxy needed.
The wedge
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.
| 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
Free tool · 2 minutes
Enter a few numbers and see your projected annual AI cost, how much is unattributed, and the budget you could overrun — before the invoice arrives.
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 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-hosting option (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.
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.
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.
Employee-level tracking, cost-center attribution, PII Shield, Sentinel, and AI Governance take months to build well. Behest runs as SaaS in minutes, or deploys in your cloud in hours via Helm — with all of it included.
Questions
The questions buyers ask first. For deeper technical or security questions, see the docs.
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