AI Cost Management Services

Do more with your AI budget

Stop guessing which model fits each task. We build the control plane that sends every request to the model that fits it best—on cost, speed, quality, or security—and show you real cost savings.

We’ll explore your technology goals and challenges
You’ll get expert insights on the best path forward
We’ll outline next steps to bring your solution to life
GUESSING COSTS YOU

Every request routed right, every dollar accounted for by engineering and finance teams

Smart routing

We send every request to the model that fits it best, by cost, speed, or the quality the task genuinely needs, with routing decisions tied to business outcomes so teams can track ROI from each request path. Static routing captures most of the savings; learned routing layers on where volume justifies it.

Automatic failover

If a provider degrades or goes down, requests move to another model automatically, before anyone notices. Multi-provider failover stops being optional the moment a production feature, or a policy that has to hold across multiple cloud providers, depends on one API. Provider choice also often spans on-demand, reserved, and spot models, which affects both resilience and spend.

Cost attribution and cloud cost optimization

See exactly which team, feature, or user is driving your AI bill, down to the request. Every call gets tagged, giving teams the exact cost by mapping cloud costs to specific business dimensions and turning a shrinking margin you can't explain into a live dashboard for more informed decisions.

Built-in guardrails

Sensitive data gets redacted before it leaves, risky requests get blocked, disallowed models get refused, every call leaves an audit trail, and spending controls support tighter cost control. One governed choke point instead of a policy per application, per provider, or per cloud, with governance that detects anomalies and prevents runaway experimentation costs across providers or applications.

We'll analyze your real traffic and current model spend, across every provider you use.
You'll see what one team, feature, or provider actually costs you.
We'll show you the savings and governance gaps available before you commit to a build.
Case Studies

Our client impact in action

AI document system cuts processing costs by 50%

A logistics provider’s legacy document system cost the firm more than $1 million annually, couldn't scale, and suffered significant downtime. FullStack built a scalable AI solution that reduced processing times by 75% and cut costs in half, all while maintaining high accuracy and reliability.

AI call auditor automates 99% of reviews

A regulatory compliance firm partnered with FullStack to build an AI system that reviews calls for potential SEC violations. The tool scores accuracy and confidence, reducing human review to just 1% of transcripts and saving an estimated 5,500 labor hours and $232,000 annually.

How we route our own AI stack

FullStack is building and running its own gateway across internal AI usage on Connect and Labs tooling, and will publish the real numbers: cost reduction, quality retention, latency, and failover uptime during real provider outages, using tools that support granular tracking to measure internal AI usage across changing patterns while validating anomaly detection and spending controls.

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What our clients are saying

FullStack’s deep understanding of BenjaminWest’s needs, coupled with consistent updates, made the collaboration seamless and the outcome outstanding.
Joe Eikelberner, COO
BenjaminWest
FullStack acted as true partners and advisors. The expertise around AI and the level of developers, engineers—whatever role it was that came to the table—was just phenomenal.
Marisa Kopec, CEO
Lux Research
Speed is only the byproduct; the real value is better software and better use of our people.
Raj Tatta, VP of Engineering
Paciolan
FullStack turned our vision for The Launchpad into reality. Their intuitive design approach delivered an app that provides IT buyers a seamless and hassle-free experience, effortlessly connecting them with the ideal tech vendors.
Tonya Turrell, Founder & CEO
Technology Match
FullStack completely transformed our company's app, breathing new life into how we service our customer base. Their innovative and collaborative team delivered an application experience that we're proud to have in the market!
Jay Williams, Software Manager
Green Mountain Power
FullStack’s deep understanding of BenjaminWest’s needs, coupled with consistent updates, made the collaboration seamless and the outcome outstanding.
Joe Eikelberner, COO
BenjaminWest
FullStack acted as true partners and advisors. The expertise around AI and the level of developers, engineers—whatever role it was that came to the table—was just phenomenal.
Marisa Kopec, CEO
Lux Research
Speed is only the byproduct; the real value is better software and better use of our people.
Raj Tatta, VP of Engineering
Paciolan
FullStack turned our vision for The Launchpad into reality. Their intuitive design approach delivered an app that provides IT buyers a seamless and hassle-free experience, effortlessly connecting them with the ideal tech vendors.
Tonya Turrell, Founder & CEO
Technology Match
FullStack completely transformed our company's app, breathing new life into how we service our customer base. Their innovative and collaborative team delivered an application experience that we're proud to have in the market!
Jay Williams, Software Manager
Green Mountain Power
Smart AI Routing

Replay your own traffic before you change anything

Every gateway engagement opens with a fixed-fee assessment: traffic analysis, a cost baseline, a model inventory, a routing-opportunity map, and an eval set built on your real workloads.

A tested business case in 2–3 weeks*

We replay a sample of your actual traffic through a routing layer and show the same outputs with the cost and quality delta measured, testing more than baseline billing alerts by comparing specialized routing and cost controls across providers for effective cloud cost management, including multi-cloud setups and multiple AI providers when relevant.

Production in 8–12 weeks*

From an approved business case to a live gateway running inside your systems, with failover, caching, attribution, and guardrails in place to help prevent unexpected billing surges, plus continuous monitoring and optimization of AI spend in production.

Published benchmarks don't transfer

Anyone can cite an 85% cost cut at 95% quality. That number was earned on someone else's traffic mix, on someone else's provider set, and has to be re-earned on yours. Building the eval set that proves it is most of the work.

We'll tell you to buy instead of build

If an off-the-shelf gateway is the right base for your margin or your multi-cloud policy, we'll say so—often sourcing it through AWS Marketplace, which simplifies vendor management by centralizing billing and software purchases—and build the custom routing and integration around it. We don't sell our own gateway product, so we have nothing to steer you onto.

*These are typical time estimates and actual times may differ based on project complexity and scope.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS

Explore FullStack's AI gateway services

Off-the-shelf gateways exist and we use them. The hard part is routing logic tuned to your workflows, cost profile, and compliance requirements, then proven on your own evaluation data—and kept tuned as models and prices change every month. Our AI cost management services also improve visibility into all AI-related costs across multiple sources by organizing billing data and normalizing cost data for better financial control.
  • Per-team, per-feature, per-tenant cost attribution with bills broken down by team or product
  • Traffic analysis and cost baselining
  • Automated reporting for clearer financial tracking and accountability
  • Routing-opportunity mapping and eval set design
  • Gateway architecture and build-versus-buy recommendation
  • Static and learned routing implementation
  • Multi-provider failover and retry logic
  • Managed operations and continuous routing tuning

Partner with FullStack and stop guessing which model to use

Enterprise Partnerships

Margin protection for AI-embedded products

For SaaS teams where inference cost is now cost of goods, routing is the most direct lever on gross margin for AI features, and CloudZero maps cloud spend to specific business dimensions so teams can track unit economics against product margins or customer-level profitability.
Mid-Market Solutions

One control plane across every model and cloud

For estates spanning multiple providers, teams, and environments, we build the single governed layer where policy, redaction, and audit are enforced—with purpose-built controls for managing AI expenditures across multi-cloud environments and multiple AI providers.
We include support across cloud environments, because organizations need tighter governance as these costs grow more complex, and teams can still swap providers without touching application code.
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Frequently Asked Questions

How is AI model routing different from cloud savings tools like reserved instances and savings plans?
Reserved instances and savings plans lower the price of compute you commit to in advance. They don't change which model a request goes to, so unlike more predictable levers in cloud services pricing, model routing works on the other side of the bill by matching each request to the model that fits it, helping teams find cost savings even when overall cloud usage stays the same. Spot-backed workloads such as batch processing can also cost significantly less than on-demand capacity. Most teams benefit from both.
Can the AI gateway run on Google Cloud, or in on-premises data centers?
Yes. The gateway runs inside your own systems, whether that's AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, on-premises data centers, or a mix. Redaction, audit, and routing policy are enforced in one place no matter where the traffic comes from.
How does cost attribution help us maintain financial control and avoid budget overruns?
Every call gets tagged by team, feature, or user, so you get cost transparency down to the request instead of one lump invoice at the end of the month. Spikes show up on a live dashboard as they happen, and automated alerts make it easier to maintain financial control, support forecasting of future bills based on past data, and help with preventing budget overruns before costs escalate—giving leadership better ROI tracking tied to business outcomes and helping hold department heads accountable for spending limits.
Is smart routing automated cost reduction, or does it need ongoing tuning?
Both. Static routing delivers automated cost reduction from day one and captures most of the savings. But models and prices change every month, so the cost optimization journey doesn't end at launch. Managed operations keep the routing tuned as your traffic and the market shift. Ongoing tuning can also include adjacent optimization tactics to eliminate waste, such as reducing cloud waste in non-production environments; for example, CLOUD TOGGLE automates shutdown of idle AWS and Azure servers, while ProsperOps uses algorithms for automated AWS discount management.
Do we have to replace the third-party tools we already use?
No. Off-the-shelf gateways and other third-party tools are often the right base, and if that's the case, we'll say so. FullStack builds the custom routing and integration around what you already run, including specialized tools and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, and since we don't sell our own gateway product, we have nothing to steer you onto, which also matters when you want to extend existing systems without taking on extra licensing fees.