Budgets, pools and hard gateway enforcement cost nothing — forever, for unlimited people. The paid ROI engine recovers idle credits and cuts token waste, so it funds itself.
Everything you need to give AI budgets real teeth.
Everything in Core, plus the layer that recovers money.
Pick whichever fits how your company buys. Same product, same features — never a percentage of "savings".
A “seat” = a person with a funded wallet — not every viewer. Minimum $6,000/yr per deployment.
500 seats → $9k · 2,000 → $36k · 5,000 → $90k
Tapers to 0.5% above $5M/yr managed. Minimum $6,000/yr. Scales with value, not headcount.
$1M managed → $9k · $5M → ~$34k · $10M → ~$59k
Unlimited seats and spend, one predictable line item. For large or seat-averse organizations.
One price. No counting, no true-ups.
All options include every ROI Engine feature. Annual billing. Renewal is a new expiry on the same license key — nothing reinstalls.
| Feature | Core — free | ROI Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Credit management | ||
| Credit pools (company / dept / team / project / vacation) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Allocation down the org tree + peer transfers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-allocation — weekly cascading budgets down the org tree | ✓ | ✓ |
| Requests & approvals workflow | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seats & licenses, waitlists, idle-seat signals | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vacation mode — a wallet parks into the team pool, returns on comeback | ✓ | ✓ |
| Balance alerts & reserve thresholds | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboards, audit log, export | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Gateway | ||
| Managed per-user keys (mint / replace / revoke) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hard budget enforcement — requests stop at ◈0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time per-user attribution (all providers) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Provider fallbacks · PII guardrails | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-click machine setup (.bat / .sh) · GPO & Intune rollout docs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application (service-account) pools — per-app API keys, spend billed to the pool, recurring auto-funding | — | ✓ |
| Exact + semantic cache (0-token repeat answers) | — | ✓ |
| Smart model routing (auto-downgrade simple prompts) | — | ✓ |
| Automation & intelligence | ||
| Auto-sweep of idle credits back to pools | — | ✓ |
| Reconciliation vs. real provider spend | — | ✓ |
| FinOps chargeback / showback + Savings & ROI | — | ✓ |
| Insights & recommendations | — | ✓ |
| Deployment | ||
| Self-hosted — data never leaves your perimeter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited users & providers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support | Community | Priority |
On $1M/yr of AI spend, recovering just 5–10% of idle credits returns $50k–$100k — against a license of about $9k.
That's a 5–10× return before counting cache and routing savings. The free tier proves the controls; the ROI Engine pays the bill.
Nothing breaks. After a 14-day grace period the install degrades to Core: pools, allocation, transfers, seats, dashboards, audit — and the gateway with hard enforcement — keep working. Only the ROI Engine features (cache/routing savings, auto-sweep, reconciliation, FinOps, insights, creating new application pools) switch off until you renew. Existing application keys keep working and keep billing their pools — nothing in production breaks. Same license key, new expiry.
Human budgets are free — every employee gets an enforced budget at no cost. Application pools give apps and bots their own API key, a budget billed to a shared pool, and recurring auto-funding — that's production workload governance, the layer organizations adopt once AI is in their products. People free, machines paid.
Budgets without teeth are advisory — so enforcement belongs in the free tier. We charge for what recovers money: cache and routing savings, idle-credit auto-sweep, reconciliation and the FinOps layer. You should never have to pay just to make a budget real.
A person who actually holds a funded wallet in the ledger during the billing period — not viewers, not offboarded users, not empty accounts. The system itself is the source of record.
The reconciled provider spend that flows through Allotment's ledger over the year — the same number your finance team sees on the Reconcile screen. Never a made-up "savings" figure.
Signing up issues a 3-month, full-product license instantly — no credit card. One trial per company (work email). After it ends, you keep Core forever or move to a paid plan.
No. The product runs entirely inside your perimeter. The only thing that ever reaches us is an anonymous monthly license check (license id, version, install id) — no names, no usage, no prompts. It even works fully air-gapped.
Install in ~10 minutes. If the ROI engine doesn't pay for itself, stay on Core — it's free forever.