AI FINOPS

Turn unpredictable AI costs into predictable value for your business

Scale your AI strategy securely with Sensedia AI Gateway, centralizing financial governance and delivering the visibility and control you need to ensure the ROI of your initiatives.

Sensedia AI Gateway architecture connecting applications and agents to multiple LLM providersSensedia AI Gateway architecture connecting applications and agents to multiple LLM providers
KEY BENEFITS

FinOps in practice, with real results.

Take full control of your AI costs with Sensedia AI Gateway, with the visibility, governance, and intelligence to scale efficiently.

Full visibility

Consolidate consumption across multiple LLM providers in real time by integrating standard and custom price tables, so you know the exact cost of every token flowing behind your applications.

Bar chart of token consumption, with the peak highlighted

Token consumption

Active control

Set custom budgets by area or project and avoid surprises. Continuously monitor financial behavior, blocking infinite AI agent loops and abusive requests before they compromise your budget.

Quarterly budget reaching its defined limit, with each area's consumption

Policies and limits

Smart cost allocation

Ensure full accountability across your GenAI initiatives. Allocate costs with surgical precision, splitting token spend by user, department, or autonomous agent, so you can transparently measure the real ROI of each area.

Cost split across four cost centers

Cost by area

REAL RESULTS

FinOps that turns AI costs into predictable value.

Real customer stories of companies scaling AI with more control, governance, and predictability.

Sensedia Governs Daily Consumption of More Than 4 Billion Tokens Through Its AI Gateway

“Governing AI without an AI Gateway would be extremely challenging. All authentication, telemetry, and security policies related to the use of OpenCode run through Sensedia’s solution.”

Liberty Health impacts over 7 million lives with integrated data network in the public health system

Financial Institution Optimizes Agentic Journey with MCP and Sensedia AI Gateway

ARCHITECTURE

Sensedia AI Gateway enabling FinOps in multi-everything contexts.

Multiple models

each with its own pricing table, performance, and characteristics.

Multiple agents

that can make chained calls and multiply consumption.

Multiple applications

each consuming AI in different ways.

Multiple vendors

such as OpenAI and Anthropic, with distinct commercial policies.

Multiple business areas

with different budgets, priorities, and responsibilities.

Sensedia AI Gateway pricing screen with per-model price tables
HOW WE DELIVER VALUE

Observability and governance with Sensedia AI Gateway.

From data to decision: complete visibility to optimize your AI investments.

Sensedia AI Gateway dashboard with cost by model, route, and period

Visualization

of consumption, consolidated and granular.

Measurement

of the cost of each call, route, and model.

Control

of spending with budgets and limits.

Attribution

of costs to cost centers and agents.

Optimization

based on reliable data.

Frequently asked questions about AI FinOps

What is AI FinOps?

It is the discipline of financial management applied to the AI lifecycle and execution, providing visibility, control, and optimization of model spending—such as tokens consumed, calls made, tools triggered, and agents in operation—turning loosely controlled and monitored costs into governed resources.

How does AI FinOps enable companies to control their AI costs efficiently?

AI FinOps controls AI costs by measuring spend where it happens: in every call to a model. With token consumption attributed by application, team, and provider, companies can see where costs are growing, apply usage limits, and route each request to the most suitable model. That way, they avoid paying for capacity they don’t need.

How does AI FinOps help justify ROI in AI-based strategies?

AI FinOps supports AI ROI because it links every cost to an outcome. When consumption is attributed to products, areas, and use cases, you can compare what each initiative spends with the value it delivers, prioritize what generates returns, and shut down what doesn’t. AI decisions stop being estimates and start relying on real usage data.

What is an AI Gateway?

An AI Gateway is the layer between applications, AI agents, and large language model (LLM) providers. It centralizes access to models, applies security, authentication, usage-limit, and routing policies, and records the consumption of every call. In practice, it does for AI traffic what an API Gateway does for APIs: it governs, protects, and measures.

Why is Sensedia AI Gateway the best solution to enable AI FinOps in enterprises?

Sensedia AI Gateway places AI costs on the same control plane that already governs your APIs. It centralizes access to multiple LLM providers, applies policies such as rate limiting, measures the consumption of every call, and exposes governed APIs as MCP Servers for AI agents, with the same access identity. AI security, governance, and costs fall under a single management layer.

What can happen to companies that don’t incorporate AI FinOps into their AI strategies?

Without AI FinOps, AI spending grows without anyone knowing where. Provider invoices arrive consolidated, with no breakdown by team or product. Expensive models are used for simple tasks, and there are no limits to contain consumption spikes. The result is blown budgets, difficulty proving returns, and AI projects halted because of cost rather than lack of value.

AI FINOPS

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