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    The control plane for enterprise AI

    Visibility and control for enterprise AI.

    Start with your AI posture: who uses AI, which tools, how much is unapproved, and what it costs. Then control model calls with policy, budgets, and cost-aware routing.

    ✓ 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, security, and finance 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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    CISO

    Employees and developers use AI tools security never approved, and much of that usage never passes through a central control point.

    Behest Radar, a free download, discovers shadow AI on employee and developer machines. Behest then puts model access, PII protection, prompt-injection defense, policy, and auditability into the AI request path.

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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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    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 adds shadow AI discovery on employee and developer machines (free download).

    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.

    Read the full definition →

    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, and much of that use never touches an approved path.

    Behest Radar finds the AI tools on employee and developer machines, including the ones nobody approved (free download, observe-only). Behest Control turns that into one AI posture: who uses AI, which tools, how much is unapproved, and where the money goes. Model calls that run through Behest get policy, budgets, and model access.

    Radar observes and never blocks. Control applies to model calls that run through Behest.

    AI Posture
    Last 30 days

    In the last 30 days, 34 people used 11 AI tools. $18,400 of that was unapproved.

    • Who uses AI

      34 people

      11 tools

    • Unapproved AI

      $18,400

      7 tools

    • Approved AI

      $11,200

      22 people

    Where the money is

    $29,900

    • Through Behest$4,100 (14%)
    • Approved, direct$7,100 (24%)
    • Unapproved$18,400 (62%)
    • Not permitted$300 (1%)

    Sample data · estimates use list price for Claude models; other tools are counted, not priced

    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. 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.

    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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