Guides
How to Read Your LLM Credit Ledger
Your balance is a running total of ledger entries — reservations, settlements, releases, top-ups, fees. Here is how to read the ledger so every cent of LLM spend is explainable.
Nemo Team
7 minPosts
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Guides
Gateway Credits vs Prepaid Tokens: What's the Difference
Provider prepaid tokens lock you to one model''s pricing. Gateway credits are model-agnostic dollars. Here is how the two differ and why credits fit a multi-model world better.
Nemo Team
7 min
Guides
Setting Up Auto-Topup Without Surprise Bills
Auto-topup keeps your gateway from running dry mid-traffic — but done wrong it's an uncapped spend loop. Here is how to configure it with a ceiling so it helps without becoming a runaway.
Nemo Team
7 min
Engineering
Reserve-and-Settle: Never Overspend a Credit Balance
Checking a balance after a call is too late under concurrency. Here is the reserve-and-settle pattern NemoRouter uses to make credit caps exact, even when thousands of requests race for the last dollar.
Nemo Team
10 min
Company
Cost Honesty: We Read the Number, We Don't Invent It
The most important number in an LLM gateway is the cost, and the easiest one to fudge. Our principle: read the provider's authoritative cost, never compute a convenient one. Here is why that shapes everything.
Nemo Team
7 min
Product
Multimodal Cost Safety: Image, Video, and Audio Floors
Image, video, and audio models don't price like text — and a $0 cost reading is a silent revenue leak. Here is how reserve floors and zero-cost gating keep multimodal spend safe.
Nemo Team
8 min
Product
Per-Customer LLM Billing for AI Apps
If you sell an AI product, you need to know what each customer costs to serve. Here is how request tags, team scoping, and exact cost tracking turn one gateway bill into per-customer economics.
Nemo Team
8 min
Guides
A Guide to LLM Cost Tracking Across Every Major Provider
From per-token pricing to provisioned throughput — how NemoRouter tracks costs across every major LLM provider with a credit-based system.
Nemo Team
6 min