Spendpol gives you the kill switch, per-agent budgets, and real-time cost control that your AI fleet needs — before the next invoice arrives.
Works with every framework and provider — zero code changes
Built for decision-makers
Observability tools show what happened after the money is gone. Spendpol prevents waste, enforces limits, and gives leadership real-time control.
For CFOs & Finance
For CTOs & Engineering
What to expect
AI-First SaaS
Series B, 140 employees
$82K/mo AI spend
21% reduction in 3 weeks
Unauthorized GPT-4 Turbo usage
Budget hard stops + kill switch
“We had no idea our research team was burning $8K/mo on direct API keys outside our stack. Spendpol caught it on day two.”
— VP of Engineering
Autonomous Agent Platform
Seed stage, 22 employees
$34K/mo AI spend
27% via cache + routing
Would have cost $12K overnight
One env variable change
“A customer’s agent hit an infinite loop at 2am. Spendpol’s per-agent budget killed it before it burned $500. Without it, we estimate $12K damage.”
— CTO & Co-founder
Enterprise FinTech
500+ employees, SOC 2 required
$220K/mo AI spend
19% across 8 departments
First-pass SOC 2 evidence
Down from $15-30K/mo surprise
“Our auditor asked for AI usage logs. Before Spendpol we had nothing. Now we generate compliance evidence packs in one click.”
— CISO
Composite case studies based on projected savings from industry benchmarks. Individual results vary.
15–27%
of enterprise AI spend is waste
Duplicate calls, oversized models, idle agents.
Gartner, 2024
60%
of companies lack AI usage policies
No rate limits, no budget caps, no kill switch.
McKinsey, 2024
78%
fail their first AI compliance audit
No usage logs, no PII tracking, no attribution.
Deloitte, 2024
Without Spendpol
With Spendpol
Competitive advantage
These aren't incremental improvements. They're capabilities that don't exist in any other platform.
Identical and semantically similar prompts are served from cache. No API call, no cost, no latency. Most teams see 15%+ savings in week one.
Semantic Cache
SHA-256 keyed, per-org isolated, configurable TTL. Built into the proxy — zero code changes.
Automatically downgrades simple tasks to cheaper models, fails over to backup providers on outages, and enforces department-level model restrictions.
Intelligent Routing
3 strategies: cost optimization, failover, department routing. Saves 20-40% on model costs alone.
Automatic cost allocation across departments, projects, and teams. Invoice reconciliation, multi-currency FX support, and finance-ready exports.
Chargeback Engine
3 allocation methods. Reconciliation gate blocks finalization until provider invoices match. PDF/CSV export.
Instant halt — by organization, department, project, or individual agent. The proxy enforces it before the request ever reaches the provider.
Kill Switch
Scoped: global, department, project, user. Auto-triggered by escalation policies. Redis-backed, <1ms enforcement.
Cross-references provider invoices against tracked spend. Detects unapproved models, spend mismatches, and anomalous usage patterns.
Shadow AI Detection
3 detection methods. Risk scoring. Real-time alerts on unauthorized model usage.
Built in Rust. 18-step pipeline. Less than 30ms overhead. Your users won't notice. Your CFO will.
<30ms
Total overhead
18-step pipeline, start to finish
<1ms
Policy evaluation
Rules checked against Redis
<1ms
Kill switch
Scoped check in one pipeline
0
Code changes
Proxy mode — just redirect traffic
Request Lifecycle
Honest comparison
Helicone and Portkey are developer observability tools. Spendpol is a financial governance platform. The difference matters.
Feature
Spendpol
Helicone
Portkey
Total
16/16
3/16
6/16
Based on publicly available feature documentation as of February 2026.
No infrastructure overhaul. No code rewrites. No vendor lock-in.
01
5 minAdd your API keys. Route traffic through the Spendpol proxy — one env variable change, zero code changes. Works with LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or raw API calls.
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://proxy.spendpol.com/v102
10 minDefine budgets, policies, and alerts. Choose which teams get which models. Set hard stops. Enable PII masking. Deploy from dashboard or as code.
spendpol.policy({ team: "ml", budget: "$5K/mo", hardStop: true })03
OngoingThe proxy enforces everything in real-time. Budgets tracked, policies evaluated, agents monitored, compliance logged. You get savings, not surprises.
// Autonomous governance — you only intervene when neededMost companies waste 15–27% of their AI spend. Drag the slider to see your projected savings.
Your Monthly AI Spend
$25K
Projected Annual Savings
$117K
$9.8K/month
That's 39% of your annual AI budget back in your pocket.
Savings Breakdown
Waste Elimination
Duplicate calls, oversized models, unused outputs
$3.8K/mo
15% of spend
Policy Enforcement
Block unauthorized models & enforce token limits
$1.8K/mo
7% of spend
Budget Hard Stops
Prevent uncontrolled spend overruns
$1.3K/mo
5% of spend
Time Savings
4 hrs/person/month on manual tracking & compliance
$3.0K/mo
Total monthly savings
Based on industry benchmarks across 340+ companies
$9.8K/mo
Free tier available. No credit card required.
Your AI traffic flows through our proxy. We take that responsibility seriously.
SOC 2 Type II
Audit-ready compliance
GDPR Ready
EU data residency
PII Auto-Masking
Data never leaves unprotected
Immutable Logs
Tamper-proof audit trail
Row-Level Security
Multi-tenant isolation enforced at the database level, not the application. Your data is invisible to other orgs.
Zero Data Retention
Spendpol never stores prompt content or AI responses. We track metadata (cost, tokens, latency) — not your data.
Source-Available Proxy
The Rust proxy is source-available. Audit the code that handles your traffic. No black boxes, no trust-me security.
Teams spending $20K+/mo save $3,000–5,400/mo with Spendpol. The ROI is measured in days, not months.
First 10 customers get 50% off for life
Pro $249/mo · Enterprise from $1,249/mo
For teams spending $100K+/mo on AI
Founding member price — 50% off for life
Saves 20-50x its cost. Dedicated onboarding included.
For teams spending $5K–100K/mo on AI
Founding member price — 50% off for life
Up to $5K monthly AI spend
One unmonitored agent running overnight costs more than a year of Spendpol. How many are running right now?
Free tier includes full dashboard. Setup takes 5 minutes.