No vendor lock-in
Route across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, and more without rewriting integrations.
Switching from GPT to Claude to Gemini is a routing config change in OBEL, not a re-integration project for your engineering team.
Spend enforced, not reported
Budgets are checked before the call - not surfaced as a surprise on next month's invoice.
The same gate that stops a user overspending also stops a runaway agent loop from quietly burning your monthly budget.
Any deployment shape
Cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped - the same governance layer applies regardless.
The identical governance stack runs whether you're on shared cloud, a dedicated VPC, or fully air-gapped - nothing to rebuild moving up the chain.
Procurement-friendly
Monthly consolidated invoicing and PO support - no prepay credit required at Enterprise.
Standard invoicing and PO references mean procurement doesn't need a new exception process just to approve an AI vendor.
Governs coding tools too
The CLI proxy extends the same cost and security controls to Claude Code and other AI dev tools.
Claude Code, Aider, and other CLI tools route through the same proxy as chat, so a developer's terminal gets the same scrubbing and audit trail.
Fits your existing stack
API-first, SIEM-compatible, and built to sit alongside your identity provider - not replace it.
Built to sit alongside your existing IdP and SIEM rather than ask you to stand up a parallel identity or logging system.
Capabilities
Everything you need to run AI as a managed line item, not a series of surprises.
BYOK & Model Routing
- Bring your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure OpenAI, and more
- Route by task complexity so simple prompts don't burn a frontier-model budget
- Switch providers or models without rewriting a single integration - routing lives in OBEL, not your app code
- No lock-in to one model vendor's roadmap or pricing changes
- Prepaid Premium Packs available for teams that don't want to manage their own provider accounts
Cost Governance
- Per-user, per-department, and org-wide spend caps enforced before the call - not reported after the fact
- Real-time visibility into cost by model, by team, by user
- Automatic soft-blocks when a budget threshold is hit, configurable per level
- Removes the shadow-IT problem of individual teams expensing their own AI tool subscriptions
- Turns AI spend from an unpredictable line item into a governed, forecastable one
Custom Endpoints & Deployment
- Connect AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, fine-tuned models, or private inference servers
- Governance layer applies identically regardless of the underlying provider
- Hot-swap endpoints without disrupting active user sessions
- Cloud or on-premises deployment paths, up to full air-gap for sovereign requirements
- Data residency controls for organisations with jurisdictional requirements
Procurement-Friendly Billing
- Monthly consolidated invoicing - no prepay credit requirement at the Enterprise tier
- Usage breakdown by department, model, and user for internal cost allocation
- Purchase order reference support for standard procurement workflows
- Predictable seat-based pricing for the Developer tier governing CLI coding tools
- No per-request pricing surprises - spend is visible before it happens, not after the invoice
Integration & Extensibility
- Connect 15+ enterprise apps - Notion, Jira, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub, Google Workspace, and more
- CLI proxy governs Claude Code, Aider, Gemini CLI, Goose, and Codex CLI sessions the same way as chat
- Model Context Protocol support for agentic tool calls, scoped and audited
- API-first architecture - most of what OBEL does is reachable without touching the UI
- Fits into an existing identity and SIEM stack rather than requiring a parallel one
Operational Reliability
- Non-blocking audit commits - governance never adds latency to the user-facing response
- Provider-level fallback keeps chat working even if a single upstream model has an outage
- Structured logging and health checks that fit into standard ops tooling
- Named account manager and dedicated onboarding at the Enterprise tier
- Priority support with defined SLAs once you've moved past self-serve