Request count and dollar cost tell different stories. Here is how cost-vs-usage analytics surface the low-volume model that dominates your bill — and the cheap one you can route more traffic to.
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.
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.
From per-token pricing to provisioned throughput — how NemoRouter tracks costs across every major LLM provider with a credit-based system.
How to attribute LLM costs across multi-agent systems: virtual keys per agent role, per-run cost accumulation, budget enforcement, and the observability patterns that prevent surprise bills.