A number you can budget
How do you keep AI token costs from running away?
Stop paying by the token for most of the work. Kyver builds platforms that run the bulk of your AI workload on hosted models with fixed monthly capacity instead of metered per-token APIs. Metered frontier models are used only where they earn it, behind budgets and hard caps. The result is a monthly cost you can plan around.
- Metered per token
- Fixed-capacity hosted
- HOSTEDfixed monthly capacity
- Ticket triage, invoice extraction, email drafts, document search
- METEREDcapped per team
- Contract review only. Alert at 80% of budget, hard stop at 100%.
How Kyver handles AI cost
Match each task to the right model
Most business tasks (classification, extraction, routing, drafting) don't need the largest model. We assign each task the smallest model that does it well.
Fixed-capacity hosting
Those models run on dedicated hosted capacity billed monthly, not per token. Usage can grow without the bill moving.
Metered models behind a budget
Where a frontier model is worth paying for, its calls go through the same gateway with per-team budgets, hard caps and alerts.
Report cost next to return
Each month you see spend by workflow and department, beside the hours or dollars each workflow saved.
No ceiling on the line item
Per-token pricing looks cheap in a pilot. Then usage grows, an agent loops on a task overnight, or a new workflow sends ten times the context anyone expected, and the bill is a surprise.
The benefits of AI are real. Paying an unknown amount for them each month is no way to run a business, and finance can't approve a line item with no ceiling.
Built in alongside cost
- SecurityCatch AI attempts to reach data or take actions outside their permissions, and block them before they run.
- GovernanceDecide which AI actions need a human sign-off, and make sure nothing irreversible happens without one.
- TraceabilityRecord every AI session step by step, so failures can be investigated and fixed instead of guessed at.
- MaintainabilityAn outside team with no internal politics, that stands behind what it builds and keeps improving it.
Questions about AI cost
Why do AI token costs become unpredictable?
Metered APIs charge for every token sent and received. Cost rises with usage, prompt length, retries and agent loops, none of which are fixed. One misbehaving workflow can multiply a monthly bill.
Are hosted models as capable as the big APIs?
For many routine business tasks, current open-weight models perform close to the large APIs. For harder reasoning the large APIs are still ahead, so we route those tasks to them, under a budget.
Where do the hosted models run?
On infrastructure provisioned for your company. We agree on the provider and region during the assessment, and your data stays in that environment.
Start with the assessment
Fixed price, agreed up front. Implement the plan with us within 6 months and we refund the fee.