AI Governance, Spend Mgmt, & Billing

amberflo is the complete total cost of ownership (tco) platform for ai first enterprises that need to manage, allocate, and monetize ai and it infrastructure usage across, cloud, s overeign , and on prem environments whether you’re metering usage for internal cost attribution or billing customers, amberflo provides the real time usage, cost, and billing infrastructure and tools to help you stay in control this overview introduces the key components of the amberflo platform so you can quickly dive into the areas that match your use case platform components ai gateway provides a single, secure, and unified access point for all ai resources (llms, ai agents, workflows, and more) with ai gateway businesses can monitor, track, and optimize ai/llm usage and costs in real time ai and cloud gain a unified view of cloud costs across providers break down spend, explore usage trends, and act on savings recommendations to optimize cloud operations data center track and allocate usage for infrastructure outside the cloud, including data centers, internal platforms, and hybrid environments that do not produce native billing data metering data warehouse track any resource used or consumed across your systems metering is the foundation of everything in amberflo, delivering real time, high granularity data for visibility, cost attribution, and billing workload sizing estimate costs for upcoming workloads or product launches use your real contract or internal rates to model scenarios and support better planning and approvals department chargeback improve accountability and financial governance by allocating costs to business units customize rates, set budgets, and generate itemized invoices for internal chargebacks or showbacks customer billing power usage based billing with accurate metering, flexible pricing models, and seamless invoicing combine fixed and usage charges, integrate with stripe or erp tools, and scale with confidence detailed overview ai gateway amberflo ai gateway provides a single access point for all model providers, including openai, anthropic, bedrock, and others it standardizes how models are accessed across teams and enforces real time usage tracking, cost attribution, and access control with built in metering and support for openai compatible apis, the gateway makes it easy to swap providers, apply usage limits, and monitor spend as it happens to get started configure your models, routing rules, and usage limits in a yaml file set secrets for provider credentials launch the gateway with a single docker command ai and cloud amberflo consolidates your cloud provider data into a single view with breakdowns by service, region, and business unit, you can identify high cost areas and discover optimization opportunities with actionable savings recommendations to get started connect your cloud providers explore the breakdown of costs in the public cloud dashboard review new recommendations in the savings section data center amberflo gives you the ability to meter usage in environments that lack native billing data, such as on prem servers, private data centers, edge workloads, and internal applications this enables you to unify cost tracking across all infrastructure, regardless of where it runs to get started define meters for on prem or hybrid resources ingest usage data using prometheus, apis, sdks, or batch ingestion apply pricing models for internal reporting, chargebacks, or showbacks metering data warehouse amberflo’s metering system gives you precise, real time visibility into any usage signal , whether it’s cloud activity, api calls, tokens generated, or developer hours this data powers everything else in the platform, from billing to chargebacks to get started define a meterand choose the usage event you want to track, define the unit (e g , hours, gb, api calls), add relevant dimensions (e g , region, role), and assign a unique meterapiname send usage events by choosing your preferred ingestion method; sdks, apis, batch jobs, or integrations like prometheus or cloudwatch view usage in real time for internal cost visibility, go to resource usage for billing customers, go to the usage section of the billing module workload sizing with amberflo quoting, teams can estimate infrastructure costs before deployment this is useful for budgeting, pricing analysis, and internal approvals quotes reflect your real negotiated or custom rates, and can include usage based services as well as manual items like developer time to get started choose a use case, create a new quote and give it a descriptive name select services, choose providers and regions from your service catalog add estimates by inputing expected usage, frequency, and any one time or recurring costs department chargeback chargebacks help drive financial accountability by attributing infrastructure costs to internal teams or business units amberflo lets you define custom rates, mark up or discount services, and present clean, itemized invoices to get started create business units by defining the teams, departments, or cost centers you want to allocate costs to allocate costs by using automatic rules or manual inputs to assign costs view the invoices go to the individual business unit to review invoices with custom rates and full detail customer billing amberflo provides a complete billing engine for usage based and hybrid billing models pricing is separate from metering, giving you the flexibility to experiment and adapt you can mix usage based charges with flat fees, offer free tiers, and generate on demand invoices that integrate with stripe and financial systems to get started define meters to capture the usage events that should drive billing, such as api calls, compute hours, or data transferred ingest usage events and send data via real time apis, sdks, or batch pipelines create a pricing model use per unit, block, tiered, volume, or dimension based pricing add fixed fees or minimums if needed beta test with real customers assign plans to test accounts, monitor performance, and refine pricing as needed launch and optimize to scale your billing operation, monitor revenue in real time, and adjust plans with confidence