AI Spend Management
Token Cost Attribution by Team and Project
Real LLM cost attribution requires tagging requests at the gateway, not reconstructing them later.
Marcus Oyelaran
· 15 min read
Real LLM cost attribution requires tagging requests at the gateway, not reconstructing them later.
Centralize fallback logic in a gateway to survive provider outages without duplicating retry code.
DeepSeek's two tiers price differently by time and caching, upending flat-rate budget models.
One gateway unifies model APIs, routing, costs, and observability across your stack.
Teams waste more money defaulting to one expensive model than picking the right one for each task.
How deployment type, billing mode, and output costs compound to inflate your actual invoice.
Governance and routing are the real production challenge for open-source coding models.
Centralized gateways eliminate scattered API keys and duplicated retry logic across services.