Glossary · Routing & cost

cost ceiling

A hard cap configured to stop or throttle requests once spend for a project, user, or time window reaches a set limit.

Related terms

• AI gateway
• BYOK (bring your own key)
• LLM gateway
• LLM router
• LLM unit economics
• cascading inference

Vynaris is an inference gateway that routes each request to the cheapest right-sized model and shows the receipt. Get an API key or read the docs.