Behest — Stop runaway AI spend before the invoice arrives.

How is Behest priced?

Behest operates on a true SaaS license model, not a token markup business. You pay a predictable platform fee based on your deployment scale, and you bring your own LLM API keys (BYOK). This means you pay your AI providers directly at cost, eliminating hidden margins and enabling precise internal chargebacks.

What is the difference between AI FinOps and Token FinOps?

AI FinOps looks at your monthly cloud bill after the fact. Token FinOps manages AI costs at the unit level (the token) in real-time. Behest tells you exactly which user, project, and session spent those tokens—and enforces hard budgets before the spend happens.

What is Token FinOps?

Token FinOps is the practice of managing AI costs at the unit level. Behest attributes every token to a specific user, session, project, and department. This allows CFOs to enforce hard budgets, prevent bill shock, and accurately charge AI costs back to the business units consuming the models.

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 is Behest different from legacy AI gateways?

While gateways offer basic routing and observability, Behest is a complete Token FinOps and AI Governance platform. We provide deep, session-level cost attribution, strict budget enforcement, and run entirely within your VPC to ensure data sovereignty and compliance.

Do I need to host it myself?

Behest runs in your GCP, AWS, or Azure cloud via a Helm chart for GKE, EKS, or bare Kubernetes. We provide the control plane and ops support, but your prompts, completions, and PII never leave your VPC, ensuring complete data privacy.

How does Behest protect against shadow AI?

By routing all enterprise LLM traffic through Behest, you establish a single, unified control plane. You gain complete visibility into which apps are calling which models, instantly eliminating shadow AI and unmanaged API keys across your organization.

What about EU AI Act compliance?

Behest is a GPAI deployment platform. You self-classify your use case under the EU AI Act, while Behest provides the required technical controls: model card aggregation, immutable audit trails, and NIST AI RMF mapping (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage).